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About UKV vs Obs Comparison
Observed rainfall side by side with the Met Office's high-resolution UKV forecast for the same period, on synchronised maps. This page is experimental.
Choose Radar or Rain Gauges as the observations to compare against. The third pane shows the Difference (UKV minus Obs): blue where the model was wetter than observed, red where it was drier.
Telemetry Rain Gauges: Tipping-bucket rain gauges reporting every 15 minutes.
Sourced from the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and SEPA | Open Government Licence v3.0
Catchment Boundaries: Hydrometric area outlines of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
National River Flow Archive (2014) | NERC EIDC | doi:10.5285/1957166d
A new page checks every rain gauge across Great Britain every 15 minutes against its neighbours, the radar and its own recent readings. The map shows rainfall as usual, and any gauge that has had a second look wears a ring: red for likely faulty, amber for uncertain, green for a real shower the neighbours missed. It also picks out blocked gauges that read nothing while it rains all around them. Open a gauge in the list to see why, with its readings beside the radar.
The Flood Forecasting Centre and the Met Office now share one impact matrix, so Flood Guidance Statements use new names: impact runs Minor, Moderate, Significant, Extreme (was Minimal, Minor, Significant, Severe) and likelihood Low, Medium, High, Very high. The colours and overall risk levels are unchanged, and the whole site, archive included, now uses the new names. Weather warnings are now labelled by their colour (Yellow, Amber, Red) rather than Moderate, Severe and Extreme, which are matrix words now.
The flood warnings map and the homepage now include SEPA's live flood warnings and alerts for Scotland, alongside England and Wales, and the Flood Warning Explorer maps all 346 of Scotland's flood warning and alert areas. Choose Scotland under Location to see it on its own, or scrub the chart to see what was in force earlier.
This application brings together real-time data from multiple sources to help you stay
informed about weather and flood conditions across the UK.
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