Met Office UKV Rainfall Forecast

About this data

• Met Office UKV forecast: Met Office UKV data © British Crown copyright Met Office – CC BY-SA 4.0
• Model runs: About four runs a day, published as each becomes available. The model is UK Variable resolution on a ~1.5km grid, so it resolves showers and orographic rain the global models smooth away — over a much smaller area and a much shorter horizon.
• Deterministic, not a probability: this is a single model solution, so it shows one possible outcome rather than a range. Treat it as guidance on pattern and timing, not as a forecast of exact totals at a place.
• Comparing models: all four render to the same map extent with the same colour scale, so a colour means the same millimetres whichever is selected. Differences you see between them are the models disagreeing, not the maps being drawn differently.
• Isobars (MSLP): off by default; switch on in the panel above (or in the bottom bar, on a wide enough screen) to add pressure lines over the rainfall. H/L pressure centres are labelled with their central pressure in hPa.
• Catchment boundaries: National River Flow Archive (2014). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. doi:10.5285/1957166d.
• Region / county boundaries: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.
• Basemap: © OpenStreetMap contributors © CARTO.