Heavy thunderstorm south of Edinburgh

[xmetman]

A heavy thunderstorm have been affecting the Edinburgh area early this afternoon. I estimate rainfall totals as high as 50 to 75 mm in the last few hours just SSW of Edinburgh, this must be causing a lot of disruption in the area.

[xmetman]

You don't often see as many clusters of white pixels like this (>32 mm per hour)

It seems to have produced what looks like spuriously high totals for the west of Edinburgh!

Other clusters of white pixels close to the coast of NE England.

[xmetman]

After a quick search...

[George in Edinburgh]

The storms rumbled away just to the west of here for a couple of hours this afternoon. No dramatic accumulations  here with a total of just 19 mm since midnight. Mind you, Davis showed a maximum rainfall rate of 74 mm/hr at 1340 GMT.   We've been in fog all day. The fun starts a couple of miles from here with the western side of the City badly affected . Many roads blocked by floodwater with some long holdups although delays are now shown as less than an hour. 

Looking at AWS rainfall totals since midnight. 18-25 mm around here and 50-60 mm in the north-west of Edinburgh.

George in Swanston, Edinburgh

www.swanstonweather.co.uk

[Brian Wakem]

[Brian Wakem]

Forgot to write: 6hr precip totals from netweather.

[George in Edinburgh]

Useful, thanks Brian.

George in Swanston, Edinburgh - in one of the palest of pale green bits.

[George in Edinburgh]

The highest total I can find is 73.2 mm at Murray Burn in the 36h to 2000h today. In realiity this all fell today with some 59 mm between 1200-1500h

Murray Burn is a SEPA AWS on the Heriot-Watt University Campus at Riccarton on the western edge of Edinburgh.

https://apps.sepa.org.uk/rainfall/ shows the narrow band of highest totals.

I was due to deliver grandson there for football training this afternoon. I could see what was going to happen and opted out early. I doubt if I would have got anywhere near the place.

Maximum temperature today was 12.4C. In response to another question, I've been here 6 years and still await the arrival of summer.

[xmetman]

Interesting that another thunderstorm tracked NE ward across Stirling later in the afternoon.

[xmetman]

Here are the complete accumulation for the 24th,

[Julian Mayes]

The map nicely shows an area of what I think may be anomalous propagation over the moors south of Glasgow - I think I've seen it on a few days recently. It happens to lie more or less where the huge Whitelee wind farm is. I just wonder?  The turbines are very large and high up. 

Quite an impressive place to visit, by the way. https://www.scottishpower.co.uk/whitelee/

Julian 

Molesey

[xmetman]

That's entirely possible. 

The tall trees at a nearby large country house very close to the Chenies radar site cause big problems with spiking there.