
Flood Forecasting Centre
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Oct 15, 2026
Are you flood-ready? Flood Action Week special episode
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28:51Phil EmonsonHOST
I mean, you mentioned, Kelly, that, you know, the importance of timely and accurate receipt of flood warning notifications.
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29:01Phil EmonsonHOST
You know, we are blessed in this country with the world leading service from the Met Office and the Flood Forecasting Centre who translate those weather forecasts into our flood warning service.
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29:14Phil EmonsonHOST
But you're right that we want to avoid a high false alarm rate.
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29:19Phil EmonsonHOST
We want to avoid communities feeling like there's a bit of a cry wolf situation with these.
FWIE X Met Office: Storm naming, climate change AI & storm chasing with Deputy Chief Meteorologist Dan Holley
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14:11Dan HolleyGUEST
And so there was a lot of discussions with our various partners.
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14:14Dan HolleyGUEST
We work with the Flood Forecasting Centre to make sure that we're across any kind of potential river flooding with them, surface water flooding.
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14:22Dan HolleyGUEST
SEPA, which is the Scottish equivalent of that as well, the Scottish Environment Agency, So there's lots of discussions that take place with our flood partners, with external partners like government, other agencies.
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14:34Dan HolleyGUEST
As I was saying earlier, we were in a lot of discussions with the Irish Met Service for that storm, as to who would name it, when we all felt confident that it would be named.