Storm Boelo, hour by hour: wind, rain and rivers across Clyde & Ayrshire
Measured data only · SEPA gauges (OGL) · METARs via NOAA AWC & Iowa Environmental Mesonet · Met Office SYNOP via OGIMET · Met Office warnings · Rain shading is interpolated from gauges, not radar
Storm Boelo swept across Scotland from Saturday morning into Sunday. This timeline replays it from Saturday 24 October 07:00 BST to Sunday 25 October 09:30 GMT (the clocks went back at 02:00 BST overnight, and the on-screen clock follows). The storm was still going at the end of the window.
Peak airport gusts
| Airport | Peak gust | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Stornoway | 84 mph | 08:20 GMT Sun |
| Tiree | 72 mph | |
| Glasgow Prestwick (EGPK) | 69 mph | 02:20 GMT Sun |
Warnings
The Met Office amber wind warning covering Ayrshire runs until 21:00 on Sunday 25 October, inside a wider yellow wind warning (Sat 12:00 BST to Sun 21:00). A yellow rain warning covered the north-east from Sat 21:00 to Sun 15:00.
What's on screen
- Arrows: observed wind and gust (mph) at civil airports and Met Office stations. Mountain summit stations are labelled "summit".
- Shading: rain in the last hour, interpolated from SEPA's rain gauges. This is not radar. Past radar frames aren't archived, so the shading comes from gauges only.
- Triangles: river level change over 3 hours at SEPA gauges.
- Timeline: airport peak gust (pink) and Scotland-wide mean rain (blue), with markers for warnings, peak gusts, peak rain and river rises.
Data sources
- SEPA rain (282 gauges) and river level (346 gauges), 15-minute data. Contains SEPA data © SEPA, Open Government Licence.
- METARs from NOAA Aviation Weather Center (aviationweather.gov) and the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive.
- Met Office SYNOP observations via OGIMET.
- Met Office weather warnings.
- Coastline, lakes and rivers: Natural Earth (public domain).
No lightning is shown, as no strike history was available for the window.
Saturday's flight impact
Our own replays of Saturday's go-arounds and diversions, built from egpk.info ADS-B tracks and the METAR winds at the time, are below.