Western Isles Weather

Hello and welcome to this special blog. Today we discuss the Met Office announcing that the 3rd of October 2020 was the new wettest day on record for the UK.

Extracts from a Met Office blog posted today. A link to the full blog can be found below.

The full blog can be found be found here https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/

Another record broken!
💦3rd October was the #WettestDay the UK's ever recorded
💦It rain across the whole of the UK
⬆️The average rainfall was 31.7mm
🌊The volume of water that fell could overfill the UK's largest lake-Loch Ness OR fill 3 MILLION Olympic size swimming pools@GMB pic.twitter.com/Qb0gF6hdHq

— Laura Tobin (@Lauratobin1) October 16, 2020

The BBC Weathers Simon King explains more

☔️Saturday 3 October this year was the wettest day for UK-wide rainfall since records began in 1891, according to the Met Office. Here's Simon King with more👇👇 pic.twitter.com/AbYLUBCSTZ

— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) October 16, 2020

2020 has seen a number of UK wide Weather records

2020 is a year to be remembered for obvious reasons. How about UK weather records? We've had 4 big ones…

💦 Wettest February on record
☀️ Sunniest calendar month (May) on record
☀️ Sunniest spring on record
💦 Wettest day (3rd Oct) on record

— Simon King (@SimonOKing) October 16, 2020

How wet was it in the Western Isles?

Stornoway Airport Met Office site record 10 mm on the 3rd October. South Uist range was offline.

SEPA rain gauges 3rd October

Creed bridge – 13.4 mm

Laxdale (Harris) – 9mm

Loch Tormsad – 6.2 mm

Mill Croft – 9.2 mm

The heaviest of the rainfall fell away from the Western Isles. With other days recording more rainfall in the last month then on that date.