Freuchie Flood Action Group

The Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for Fife, but the Scotland wide advisory is far more accurate:

There is a moderate risk of severe weather affecting parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland. There is the potential for heavy, thundery rain to give totals in excess of 50 mm in places, with an associated risk of localised flooding.

SEPA has issued a Flood Watch:

A FLOOD WATCH has been issued for Fife and Clackmannanshire rivers.

Heavy rainfall is forecast this morning. High intensity rainfall may cause flooding on small watercourses, roads and in urbanised areas.

Freuchie has seen 38mm of rainfall in the last 6 hours with more rain to come throughout today. Condition couldn’t have been better over the last few months for Freuchie to be able to withstand such a deluge. However residents who invested in flood defences would be advised to have them on standby.

There are a number of gullies blocked in the village and Muirhead. FFAG will report these to Fife Council for maintenance.

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SEPA has issued a Flood Watch for Fife.

FLOOD WATCH

This statement was prepared on 19 November 2009 at 7:03 am.

A FLOOD WATCH has been issued for Fife and Clackmannanshire rivers.

A band of rain will stagnate over Clackmannanshire today with widespread totals of 25 to 40mm at low levels and 50 to 60mm over the higher ground. As the ground is already saturated localised flooding is expected.

This FLOOD WATCH is now in force until further notice.

Please continue to keep an eye on the situation in your area and listen to local radio and television for further information.

The Met Office has also issued an Advisory of Severe or Extreme Weather for Fife that covers today and tomorrow:

There is a moderate risk of severe weather affecting many western parts of Britain. During Thursday very wet and windy conditions are expected at times with widespread rain and gales in places with winds gusting around 60 MPH. Rain will be heavy at times, especially over windward hills and mountains. Rainfall accumulations of 30 to 50mm are expected through the whole period with locally over 80mm mainly across higher ground.

Issued at: 0645 Thu 19 Nov

The weather forecast over the next 36 hours isn’t too good. Ensure you are prepared to deploy flood defences and you have moved all valuables, and anything else you can’t afford to lose, to an upstairs room or attic.

For those of you who been following our Twitter account, you may have noticed Freuchie Mill residents were heading to Cupar to collect sandbags to dam off Freuchie Mill Road and to fully protect the few homes that haven’t yet got flood doors. We got there to discover Fife Council would rather bring them out to us on this occasion.

FFAG committee members have also inspected sites around the village and further afield to ensure we have a handle on potential flooding. You may well have seen us out at 5am touring the village.

We have discovered the water draining off the railway is causing flooding at the chicken farm, water that ultimately ends up at Freuchie Mill.

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The Met Office has issued a “Flash Warning of severe or extreme weather”:

Rain will spread northwards across southern and central Scotland during this evening and right through into tomorrow morning becoming heavy at times with totals of 25 to 30mm generally but with 50mm possible over the high ground. The public are advised to take extra care and refer to the latest Scottish Environment Protection Agency Live Flood Warning Information.

This warning is in effect from 9pm tonight until 10am tomorrow morning.

SEPA has no flood warning in force for Fife so far.

Standby your sandbag and grab some sleep now!

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Amazingly the Norwegian Institute of Meteorology makes available an hour by hour forecast for Freuchie. They have predicted around 18mm of rainfall over the remainder of today and tomorrow. This level of rainfall is certainly less worrying than the deluge predicted by the Met Office, which provides a general forecast for large parts of the East of Scotland.

A link has now been added to the sidebar in the Forecasts and Warnings category of the blog.

Big thanks to Ross Robertson for this fabulous find.

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The Met Office has issued a “Severe or Extreme Weather Advisory” that includes Fife.

Wednesday:

There is a moderate risk of a severe weather event affecting parts of east Scotland during Wednesday. Outbreaks of heavy rain may give 40 mm on low ground and 60 to 75 mm over high ground during the day.

Thursday:

There is a moderate risk of a severe weather event affecting parts of east Scotland during Thursday. Outbreaks of heavy rain may give an additional 15 to 25 mm over high ground during the morning with overall totals through Wednesday and Thursday of 80 to 100 mm.

We’re certainly in very dangerous territory if those rainfall estimates fall on and around Freuchie. Flooding on a scale seen last year may even be a possibility. 

It is time to ensure your flood protection measures are ready for action.

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SEPA has issued a FLOOD WATCH for Fife and Clackmannanshire:

 

This statement was prepared on 22 July 2009 at 12:47 pm.

A FLOOD WATCH has been issued for Fife and Clackmannanshire rivers.

Thundery showers are forecast for today around 12 pm until 10pm in the evening across Fife and Clackmannanshire areas, giving daily totals around 30mm. River levels are high so these showers could lead to some localised flooding particularly in the smaller burns, and also surface water runoff and difficult driving conditions. As soon as more information becomes available this message will be updated.

This FLOOD WATCH is now in force until further notice.

Please continue to keep an eye on the situation in your area and listen to local radio and television for further information

The Met Office has also issued a “Flash warnings of severe or extreme weather”:

Slow moving heavy showers may give 15 to 20mm within a few hours. The public are advised to take extra care and refer to ‘Traffic Scotland’ for further advice on road conditions and to Scottish Environment Protection Agency ‘Live Flood Warning Information’.

Issued at: 1310 Wed 22 Jul

There has been a few heavy showers today but so far they’ve been short lived.

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The Met Office has issued a severe weather advisory, which predicts possible heavy rainfall leading to flooding. It is in force until 6am Saturday.

An area of rain will move up across the area today this heavy and persistent giving totals between 25 and 35mm in many areas with the risk of 60-70mm over the high ground. This heavy rain could lead to some flooding. The public are advised to take extra care and to refer to ‘Traffic Scotland’ for further advice on road conditions.

Issued at: 0449 Fri 17 Jul

SEPA has also issued a FLOOD WATCH for Fife and Clackmannanshire.

This statement was prepared on 16 July 2009 at 3:11 pm.

A FLOOD WATCH has been issued for Fife and Clackmannanshire rivers.

Heavy rain is forecast to reach southeast Scotland later tonight edging up across Fife and Clackmannanshire areas where it will be persistent and also heavy at times during Friday, continuing on Friday night before dying out on Saturday morning. Accumulation of 40 to 60mm is widely expected with as much as 90 mm possible over high ground. This may cause flooding, particularly in smaller watercourses and urbanized areas. Also excessive surface water on the roads and difficult driving conditions may also be encountered.

This FLOOD WATCH is now in force until further notice.

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The Met Office is advising heavy rainfall this afternoon until 9pm this evening.

Scattered showers will become heavy and more widespread this afternoon with a risk of thunderstorms. The showers will be slow moving and could give rainfall accumulations of 15 to 20mm in a 3 hour period.

The public are advised to take extra care and refer to the latest Scottish Environment Protection Agency ‘Live Flood Warning Information’ on flooding. Also refer to Traffic Scotland for advice on road conditions.

Issued at: 1250 Wed 15 Jul

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The Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for Fife and the SEPA’s Flood Watch service has issued a “Flood Watch”.

This statement was prepared on 14 June 2009 at 4:46 am.
A FLOOD WATCH has been issued for Fife and Clackmannanshire rivers.
Scattered slow moving showers will develop today from late morning until mid evening. The rainfall is forecast very heavy with some torrential thundery downpours likely. Hourly rates of 10-20mm are possible with 3-hourly accumulations of over 25mm locally. This may lead to some localised flooding on smaller watercourses and surface runoff problems.

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Earlier this evening Alex Hill of the Met Office kindly joined us here in Freuchie to present a talk on Climate Change to Freuchie Flood Action Group. People travelled across from Falkland to join the residents of Freuchie in listening to a compelling case for climate change being a real man-made phenomenon. This has to be one of the best presentation so far to be delivered at a FFAG meeting.

John A Thomson, Chairman of Freuchie Flood Action Group commented:

We cannot thank Alex enough for venturing all the way to Freuchie to deliver this thought provoking talk. Even although it contained alarming facts and figures, we can take much from it in our ongoing campaign for flood prevention and protection for Freuchie. It was a privilege to be in the audience while he patiently took question after question,  from both sceptic and believer alike, responding with thought provoking answers that covered not only the scientific elements, but also the political, social and economic aspects of climate change.

It was also very welcome to see Paul Hendy of the Scottish Flood Forum turning up to support Alex and FFAG. Paul is doing sterling work in Scotland with flood affected communities… keep up the good work Paul.

Once again we have to give special mention to Ronnie at the Lomond Hills Hotel for the use of the facilities. We did try to increase Ronnie’s bar takings a little last night.

Alex has graciously made available a PDF version of his presentation for us to share. We heartedly recommend you take a look as it will be time well spent.

Presentation deck for the Climate Change Talk by Alex Hill of the Met Office

And finally…

Even although it has been 14 years since Alex was a TV weatherman, the star struck amongst the attendees insisted on getting their photo taken with him. Fame is indeed everlasting!

Photo: John A Thomson (Chair of FFAG), Alex Hill of the Met Office & Cllr David MacDiarmid

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