Page last updated on: Sunday, 28 March, 2021.

and weather events

John Veitch, farmer at Low Creoch, is very fond of taking and sharing photographs with the less rural among us. He posts regularly on Facebook. He is also an amateur meteorologist who loves cloud formations and to measure rainfall. He is in fact an official Met.Office Volunteer Rainfall Observer.

We have received some of his more recent rainfall data and present his summaries below. If this information is useful, he has some years of historic data that we may include as downloadable .pdf files.

Low Creoch is 25m above sea level, on the eastern side of the Fleet Valley with a SW aspect.

2021 : Rainfall

month	mm rain	dry days	wettest	mm	Notes
Jan	145.3	11	13th	27.3
Feb	216.7	5	2nd-4th	106.8
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Totals

2020 : Rainfall

month	mm rain	dry days	wettest	mm	Notes
Jan	143.9	4	27th	27.1
Feb	275.3	2	19th	45.7
Mar	98.6	13	9th	27.5	dry spell started 20th March
Apr	21.7	18	29th	10.6	16 dry days in a row
May	38.6	14	21st	10.7
Jun	142.3	10	27th	36.1	27, 28 & 29 = 86.1mm
Jul	221.4	2	22nd	30.6
Aug	176.9	11	25th	40.1	26, 27 & 28 all wet c.60+ mm
Sep	129.2	12	2nd	63.5	2 mornings of frost. Only 3rd or 4th time daily mm > 60 in 25+ yrs.
Oct	202.6	6	3rd	34.2	windy
Nov	158.3	4	13th	34.3	only 10 dry days since 27th September
Dec	198.0	8	12th	25.5	16, 17 & 18th all over 20mm rain
Totals	1806.8	104			Wetter than average year. Snow on 5 days.
					In September, Mark Hannay at Cardoness recorded 88.9 mm flash floods between Carsluith & Cardoness;

Flooding

1954 : Friday 29th October at10.30 am Rutherford Hall flood.

2015 Click here to see some photos of the " Mill on the Fleet " floods on 30th December 2015.

2019 June : Flooded field at Low Creoch.

Snow

1947 March : Snow has been cleared to open up "The Cut".

2013 Click here to see some photos of the " Time Gatehouse was isolated " on 25th March 2013.