NOAA equivalent in Scotland?

Hi All,
The girlfriend and I are comtemplating heading over the big pond to do some hillwalking in the Scottish Highland. I was wondering if they have something equivalent to the national weather channels up there (I wanna to check with the freq. listed in my manual against those used (if any) by the Scotts)? And no, it's not the deciding factor whether we're going or not

Cheers!

Fish

http://www.ItRainsEveryDayInScotland.com

The short answer to your question is no. There is no weather alert radio operating on dedicated frequencies like NOAA's.

The Met Office issues national severe weather warnings with public broadcasts on BBC 4, one of the national radio frequencies. You can find out more at BBC Weather Centre -- UK Weather and Flood Warnings.

giggy said:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/index.html

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Hahahaha

Awesome ;-)

I have been looking at the metoffice link and the highlands have the most amount of rainfall on average and a fairly cool average temperature (6-13C).

Thanks for the links!

Fish

If I were you....assume it will rain at least sometime during every day BUT this will make the periods of sunshine (and there will be some) that much more enjoyable. Also, don't forget - most trailheads are very close to a warm, dry pub....

I go to ireland quite often - and this isn't scotland - but I think the climates are quite similar. I have found during summer months, it will probably rain daily - but these showers are not heavy nor do they last. a typical summer day will be partly/mostly cloudy, a 10 minute shower, the sun will come out, and then this repeats itself. They typically do not get the heavy 2 inch rain events that we get here.

when my relatives from ireland come over, they can't believe the heavy rain we get here.

Orsonab said:

If I were you....assume it will rain at least sometime during every day BUT this will make the periods of sunshine (and there will be some) that much more enjoyable. Also, don't forget - most trailheads are very close to a warm, dry pub....

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Time to open another Chapter of Views and Brews! And 'Rankin' is Scottish!