In May, a new daily 3-day Scottish Flood Forecast (SFF) was launched on the SEPA website by the Scottish Flood Forecasting Service (SFFS). The SFFS is a partnership between SEPA and the Met Office.
The system has been launched as a test version until autumn 2022 to gather feedback and make any improvements before formally launching the service to the public later this year.
The SFF has been created after user research identified a need for the public to receive flood information earlier than current regional flood alerts and local flood warnings in a simple and clear way and have the ability to check if no significant flooding is expected.
The SFF is based on the best available information, but there will still be a chance of minor and localised flooding when the maps have no areas coloured red, amber and yellow.
The SFF will be updated daily after 10:30am. If a situation is developing or escalating and the risk significantly changes, then an updated version of the SFF will be published in the afternoon after 3:30pm
Typical SFF data
The SFF is available on the SEPA website, here - www.sepa.org.uk/scottishfloodforecast
(May 2022)