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. There is little urban development, the main towns being Inverness, Fort William, Wick, Kirkwall (Orkney) and Lerwick (Shetland). Temperature Mean annual temperatures over the region at low altitude vary from about 9 °C close to the Moray Firth and on the westernmost isles to about 7 °C on Shetland
significant disruption across the UK through this period. Transport was particularly badly affected with snowfalls causing numerous road closures, and train and flight cancellations. The first snowfalls on Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 December affected mainly eastern parts of the UK, but on Sunday
Scotland with many ferry services cancelled. Large waves resulted in 33 shipping containers being lost overboard from a vessel in the Pentland Firth, while a yacht capsized of the Isles of Scilly. There was localised flooding on roads in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with the A83 in Argyll
St Georges Channel 11. Great Orme Head to the Mull of Galloway 12. Isle of Man Page 3 13. Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough 14. Mull of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the Firth of Clyde and North Channel 15. Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point 16. The Minch 17. Ardnamurchan Point to Cape
them to stall at times, bringing prolonged, heavy rainfall for some, particularly to the West and south. There will also be more rainfall feeding in from the east coast into eastern Scotland and northeast England, areas so badly impacted by Storm Babet. This rainfall won’t be as heavy as last week’s
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, Perthshire and the Moray coast. Wave hights of 11m were recorded in the outer Firth of Forth. Warnings still in force A number of severe weather warnings are still in force across the UK. The Red and Amber weather warnings have now expired though the Yellow wind warning covering much of the UK
point is Ben Macdui (1309 metres) near the border of Grampian with Highland. Temperature Mean annual temperatures over the region vary from about 9 °C close to the Firth of Forth to less than 6 °C over the higher ground of the Grampians. Elsewhere in the UK, mean annual temperatures reach over 11 °C
.” William Martin, Marine Officer Pilot - Port of Cromarty Firth Why work with the Met Office? As the UK’s national meteorological service, our reputation and expertise is unparalleled with over 160 years of meteorological experience and expert scientists. The Met Office has continuously been recognised
use digital. How did they do it? Alex Find some examples of weather reports for hazardous weather. Can you find one that is done really well and one that is done badly? What was good or bad about them? How could they have been improved? Kemi Can you find some examples of test cases written by QA
