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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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.