Author Archives: Richard Maxey
New coastal flood forecasting system for Eilean Siar goes live!
This week sees the launch of two new Flood Warning schemes by SEPA. One is a scheme addressing fluvial flooding in Aberfoyle, in the southern Highlands. The other, discussed here, is for the Outer Hebrides (also known as Eilean Siar … Continue reading
Royal Meteorology Society Award for the Scottish Flood Forecasting Service
Scientists from Met Office and SEPA working within the forecasting service have been recognised at the Royal Meteorological Society Awards for their work on the ‘Surface Water Flood forecasting in Urban Communities’ project. They, along with their colleagues from The … Continue reading
Scottish Flood Forecasting Service Annual Report
This week the Scottish Flood Forecasting Service (SFFS) publishes its report for 2017-2018. We wanted all our daily Flood Guidance Statement customers, SFFS partners and supporters to know more about our operational activity and key learnings from April 2017 – … Continue reading
World Meteorological Day 2019
Happy World Meteorological Day! Saturday 23 March is World Meteorological Day 2019 and this year the World Meteorological Organisation has named the theme – ‘The Sun, the Earth and the Weather’. In the Scottish Flood Forecasting Service (SFFS) the weather services are provided … Continue reading
Using the flood risk matrix – two October events
Two widespread flood events affected Scotland in October. One affected a very large area of the West Highlands, and the other, related to Storm Callum, widely impacted England and Wales, but just clipped the south of Scotland. In both cases … Continue reading
Medium Range Outlook for the Flood Guidance Statement
Since its inception in 2011 the Scottish Flood Forecasting Service has provided forecasts of flood risk out to five days, by way of the Flood Guidance Statement sent to the emergency response community. Since then the scope and accuracy of … Continue reading
Studentship opportunity – snow monitoring in Scotland
We’re supporting CEH in a summer placement for a university student who is doing a degree in a “quantitative discipline” (e.g. mathematics, statistics, computing, engineering, physics) to come and try working in environmental research. The project is “Snow hydrology: analysing … Continue reading
Review of 2017-18 EFAS Messages
As reported in the article on the 13th annual meeting of the European Flood Awareness System partners, SEPA and the forecasting service are part of this international forecasting initiative, and receive notifications when flooding is expected. As part of our … Continue reading
World Meteorological Day 2018
Happy World Meteorological Day! Friday 23 March is World Meteorological Day 2018 and this year the World Meteorological Organisation has named the theme – ‘Weather-Ready, Climate-Smart’. The recent cold temperatures and snow events have demonstrated the importance and value of being “weather … Continue reading
Flood Warning Dissemination System Administrator – vacancy in Scotland
Flooding is one of this century’s biggest environmental challenges, and tackling it here in Scotland is a top priority for SEPA. As Scotland’s national flood forecasting, flood warning and strategic flood risk management authority SEPA leads the way in flood … Continue reading
Scottish Flood Forecasting Service 