Freuchie experienced the most rainfall in a while yesterday. Approximately 24mm of rain fell in 9 hours, with most of the total falling in a 7 hour spell of moderate steady rainfall.

The culvert at Freuchie Mill rose considerably during this rainfall event. As has been previously highlighted, a rainfall rate of 3mm per hour will see the level of the Pitilock Burn rise to alarming levels incredibly quickly at Freuchie Mill.

Thankfully other watercourses in Freuchie tend to take longer or require more rainfall to raise the same level of alarm or lead onto flooding.

Thanks to Cockermouth Flood Action Group and others for their kind thoughts posted on our Facebook updates yesterday.

A Met Office spokesman on the BBC Scotland News programme revealed the following statistics for the first ten days of August:

2/3 of weather stations in Scotland have already recorded the usual amount of rainfall that would be seen in the whole of August.

Aberdeen has recorded 1.5 times
Edinburgh has recorded 2 times
Leuchars has recorded 3 times

Our own weather station is showing 107.4mm so far in August as of 7pm on the 11th August, with half of this rainfall being over the last 36 hours.

Approximately 40mm of rainfall was recorded by the Freuchie Mill weather station from 9am on the 10th until 9am this morning (11th).

Image: Recent daily rainfall totals

This volume of rainfall will have fully saturated the ground thereby increasing the risk of flooding over the next few days as rain continues to fall.

The graph says it all about the rainfall on Freuchie over the last day or so…

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Water course levels have steadily fallen since the last post… thankfully.

 
Photos: Freuchie Mill culvert @ 9am

The 26.4mm of rainfall experienced over the last 24 hours wouldn’t normally have been a cause of major concern but the frozen and saturated ground and remainder of the snowmelt made for a worrying few hours in the early hours of this morning.

Graph: Cumulative Rainfall graph for the last 24 hours

There will be many Freuchie residents having a wee sleep during the day today! Lots of sleep to be caught up on.

Freuchie really dodged a bullet last night. An hour or two more of warm front rainfall would have seen flooding occurring again in our village. We hope everyone else at risk of flooding in Scotland and elsewhere in the UK also survived unscathed.

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As the weather turns autumnal, let’s look at a definition for a weather term of interest to us rain watchers – rainfall rate.

There are many other definitions used throughout the world! Thanks go to Alex Hill of the Met Office for this comprehensive table as used in the UK.

History has show Freuchie to be susceptible to flooding in the moderate to heavy region when the ground is saturated.

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Interesting daily rainfall graph for the 24 hour period ending at 9am this morning:

The Freuchie Mill weather station recorded 42.3mm of rain, with the highest rainfall rate of 28.8mm/hr occurring  at 4:25am.

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Between 23rd December and 8th January the snowfall equated to about 20mm of rainfall. Over the last couple of days we have had the equivalent of 5mm of rainfall.

All the watercourses are running at low levels at the moment. Fingers crossed for the continued slow thaw so we don’t have any flooding incidents.

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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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