january 29, 2012 02:45am

Forth Road Bridge Status Added

We've added a new table to the Weather Warnings page, which shows the current status and any restrictions on the Forth Road Bridge.

We'll also automatically tweet any changes to the status of the bridge via our twitter account.

We hope you find the addition of this information useful.

january 08, 2012 03:23pm

Primary Anemometer Fault

The last month of very windy weather has taken it's toll on the weather station's Inspeed Vortex anemometer. The bearings in the anemometer have (understandably) gone sticky, causing the anemometer to under-report light wind speeds.

Thankfully the station still has it's backup anemometer, which has been promoted to the primary role until the weather permits repair to the Vortex. The only down-side is the wind speed updates will decrease from 5 seconds to 15 seconds whilst the secondary anemometer is in use.

As always, site news will be updated as soon as the Vortex is back online.

december 30, 2011 01:20pm

Rain Gauge Fault

Thanks to Alistair Donnachie and Gareth Dow for bringing to my attention, the fact the rain gauge had been failing to record rain for the past few days.

I have swapped out the faulty unit with a spare, and initial testing looks good. This afternoon's band of rain, that is just arriving in central Fife now, will be a good test for it!

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

december 22, 2011 04:32pm

BT Issues in Lochgelly Exchange

Update 23-12-2011 16:35 - By all accounts, this issue now seems resolved and our internet link has been stable since 7am. Again apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Unfortunately BT are reporting issues (again!) with the DSL Mux in the local exchange which is making FifeWeather.co.uk intermittently unavailable.

The issue has been ongoing since around 9pm last night. We can only apologise for the inconvenience and hopefully BT will have the issue resolved soon.

november 25, 2011 05:12pm

Severe Gales for Fife

It has certainly been a windy few days for Fife and indeed Scotland, but nothing unexpected for this time of year.

However the weather will up the ante tomorrow, when another low pressure system sweeps across the NW corner of Scotland.

The MetOffice have issued multiple warnings for both wind and rain, for Fife.

Forecasting model data certainly shows gale to severe gales are possible across the SE of Scotland, including Fife.


(Chart credit NetWeather.tv)

If you haven't done so already, now would be a good time to tether down any items in the garden, likely to get airborne in the high winds, such as trampolines.

There is a good chance the station's high gust speed may be equalled or broken sometime tomorrow or early Sunday morning. As always, the site will provide up to the second windspeed readings from Lochgelly.

october 26, 2011 12:00pm

Update on intermittent site outage

It appears our previously reported internet connectivity issues were caused by a fault in our local telephone exchange. The fault is now being reported as resolved by BT, after a lengthy overnight outage.

We will continue to monitor throughout the day but at this point, it would appear the situation has been resolved. Again apologies for the intermittent unavailability of the FifeWeather website.

Kind regards,
Graham Smith (Station/Site Operator)

october 25, 2011 09:33pm

Intermittent Site Connectivity Problems

We're currently experiencing an intermittent issue with our primary internet connection, which is causing the FifeWeather website to be slow in loading and/or intermittently unavailable.

A fault has been raised with our upstream provider and we're hoping for a speedy resolution.

Sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused in the meantime and further updates to follow.

august 16, 2011 09:22am

Twitter Forecasts

Each day, at 07:30 and 19:30, our twitter account will tweet the forecast for the next 24-48 hours. The forecast is broken into 6 hour time-blocks as follows:

• 06:00 - 12:00 - This morning


• 12:00 - 18:00 - This afternoon


• 18:00 - 23:59 - This evening


• 00:00 - 06:00 (+1 day) - Tonight


• 06:00 - 12:00 (+1 day) - Tomorrow morning


• 12:00 - 18:00 (+1 day) - Tomorrow afternoon


• 18:00 - 23:59 (+1 day) - Tomorrow evening

Each time block will be addressed in a separate tweet.

The forecast data is derived from the site forecast.

august 07, 2011 03:46pm

Apologies for brief outages today.

Due to a catastrophic hard disk failure in the main FifeWeather internet server, I was forced to take the site down twice today to aid in replacement of the hard disk.

Thankfully, disk mirroring ensured no data loss occurred, and the system is now fully recovered.

However visitors to the site would have had difficulties making contact with the site briefly around 11:30 and again around 15:10 today.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Kind regards,
Graham Smith
Site Admin

july 28, 2011 07:24pm

Free Android Weather Widget

If you've got an Android based mobile phone, you could get FifeWeather's weather data directly to your handset via this great (and free) weather widget:

(Click Icon)


The widget allows you to view weather station data from many different weather stations, including the FifeWeather.co.uk station.

If you visit the above link from your handset, you can download the app directly from the Google App Marketplace at no charge.