Tropical Storm Bill Heading Our Way

The remains of Hurricane Bill has now passed Nova Scotia and is heading East across the North Atlantic. Bill has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm with current wind speeds of around 70 mph.
The current forecast is for Bill to track east across the Atlantic to be somewhere off the Northwest coast of Ireland by Wednesday morning (26th Aug) before turning Northeast towards the Western Isles.

The centre of this depression is forecast to head over the Western Isles on Wednesday but wind speeds, by this time, should be down to around 40 mph.

To track Bill as it makes it's way towards us then click on THIS LINK for the latest position. If you click on the button next to "Forecast Models" in the menu in the top right corner of the screen then you can see the predicted tracks.

Tracking Atlantic Hurricanes & Tropical Storms

As we are now in the Atlantic Hurricane Season I have set up a new page where you can track the North Atlantic Hurricanes and Tropical Storms.
There is an interactive map that contains the current location of active storms, it has satellite image overlays, predicted paths and the latest wind speeds & travel of the storms.

Hurricane Bill is on there at the moment, Bill is now a Category 3 Hurricane and looks to be heading up the East coast of the U.S and it's remains will then head towards Europe or Iceland.

Forecast Update Times

The update times for the WXSim forecasts that are produced by Hebrides Weather have changed to give a more accurate forecast throughout the day.
Previously the forecast was updated every 8 hours at just before 5am, 1pm & 10pm.

With the new timings, the forecasts will now be updated every 3 hours, at just before 4am, 7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm and 10pm.
There is no forecast update at around midnight as this is when all the backups etc are taking place.

Stornoway Tornado

There has been a lot in the Press this week about the tornado that hit Stornoway on Tuesday 28th July. Unfortunately I was off the island at the time but as a member of the Tornado & Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) and one of their Site Investigators, I would like to know more about the event to assist in the current research and so that it can be included in the records that TORRO keeps on such events.

If you saw the tornado, witnessed its effects or were effected by it then both TORRO and I would be grateful of any information that you can provide. Any information that you provide will only be used to forward our research into the tornados that occure within the UK and no personal information will be passed to other organisations.

You can contact me via this Blog or by using my Contact form, there is also a Severe Weather Report Form on the TORRO website.

If you witness any severe weather event then TORRO would be happy to hear about it and the same form can be used. If the event is in the Western Isles or the Highlands then please feel free to let me know as well.