Stirling Weather Information 

Past Week
Sunday January, 5 to Saturday January, 11

The first working week of 2020 was wet and windy. A weekly rainfall total of 86.6mm was our highest weekly total since mid-March 2019 with over two inches of rainfall recorded on Friday evening and Saturday. Our maximum wind speed recorded was 47mph on Tuesday 7, our highest of 2020 so far.

Despite a couple of mornings of frost it was in general a mild week with four days reaching double figures and the 12.9ºC recorded on Tuesday 7, is our highest temperature of the winter season.  

Maximum Temperature: 12.9ºC Tuesday January, 7
Lowest Temperature: -2.7ºC Friday January 10
Maximum Daily Rainfall: 37.3mm Saturday January, 11
Weekly Rainfall Total: 86.6mm 
Maximum Wind Gust: 47mph Tuesday January, 7

The Week Ahead
Similar to last week this week also started off wet and windy with wind speeds around 45mph on Monday. It will remain blustery for most of the week. Wednesday could be a drier day but rain is expected to return on Thursday. Most of the wet weather this week is expected to fall as rain but at lower levels it could turn occasionally to sleet. There are signs that from Friday and into the weekend that more settled conditions will move into the area and with that temperatures would drop to freezing and below.

Earliest Sunrise: 08:30 
Latest Sunset: 16:23

Did You know: It’s been a wet past week and the longest period in January we have went without any rainfall was for 6 days during 2017. On January 26, 2016 we recorded our wettest January day with 43.8mm of rainfall with over 9mm falling in just one hour in a month that saw 231mm of rain.

For the local weather news including historical and real-time weather information from Stirling visit www.stirlingweather.co.uk and on social media @stirlingweather and also our weather editor @scottlmclean 
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At the start of each month I take a look back at the previous month's weather information for Stirling.

More historical weather stats can be found on the Stirling Weather website.
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December 2019

• Maximum Temperature: 12.3°C (5th)
• Lowest Temperature: -6.3°C (1st)
• Monthly Average Temperature: 5.2°C
• Days Temperature dropped to 0°C or below: 7
• Monthly Total Rainfall: 204.71mm
• Days of Snowfall/Sleet or Snow on Ground: 1
• Maximum snow depth: 0cm
• Highest Wind Gust: 47mph (5th & 8th)
  
  

Our December Records since 2009

• Maximum Temperature: 14.5°C (2015)
• Lowest Temperature: -15.6°C (2010)
• Monthly Total Rainfall: 400.80mm (2015)
• Highest Wind Gust: 51mph (2013)
• Longest days with rain detected: 21 days (2013)
• Longest days with NO rain detected: 5 days (2012)

As well as the main weather website, Facebook and Twitter, in the Stirling Observer published each Wednesday I look back and take a look ahead to what the Stirling Weather has in store for us.

Below: Stirling County Cricket Club on December 15, 2019. 

So there goes another Christmas and with it another year with no festive snow.

The last time we had snow in Stirling on Christmas Day was in 2010 during the cold spell that lasted from November, through December and into January 2011. Some would say that we had enough of the cold and snow during that spell to last a decade but in keeping with the season it would have been nice if we had some snow over the festive periods since.

In last week's Stirling Observer newspaper (article below) I wrote more about the 2019 Christmas weather. 

As well as the main weather website, Facebook and Twitter, in the Stirling Observer published each Wednesday I look back and take a look ahead to what the Stirling Weather has in store for us.

Past Week
Sunday 13 to Saturday 19 October

A fairly quiet spell of weather with drier and calmer conditions than the previous week. Temperature was near average for the time of year.

Maximum Temperature: 14.2ºC Tuesday 15 October
Lowest Temperature: 2.1ºC Thursday 17 October 
Maximum Daily Rainfall:  7.87mm Friday 18 October
Weekly Rainfall Total: 20.81mm
Maximum Wind Gust: 18mph Sunday 13 & Saturday 19 October

The Week Ahead
Forecast: As the clocks go back our attention starts to turn to the long winter ahead but only once in the last 10 years have we recorded wintry weather in October, it’s not until late November that we will regularly be on the look out for the risk of snowfall in Stirling. 

To end this week and to start the weekend there will be some spells of rain although this will be mixed with sunny intervals. There is a small chance of some wintry weather on more northern local hills and mountains. Breezy at times in the second half of the week. Temperature around 13ºC maximum and 2ºC minimum. 

Earliest Sunrise: 07:11 (adjusted for change to GMT)
Earliest  Sunset: 4.42pm (adjusted for change to GMT)

For the local weather news including historical and real-time weather information from Stirling visit www.stirlingweather.co.uk and on social media @stirlingweather and also our weather editor @scottlmclean

It's September and it's a full month of charity fundraising for Prostate Cancer UK.

Starting on the 1st of the month with my commitment of 11,000 steps each day for March the Month and ending by running the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon in Glasgow.
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"Well that was interesting" - That was my facebook and twitter response on Stirling Weather to being caught up in the heavy rainfall on Monday evening (24 June 2019). A tweet and phrase I came to slightly regret saying after seeing and realising the damage the rainfall and subsequent floods brought to some businesses and homes in parts of Stirling.

While "it was interesting" to be out and about during our worst flooding in many years it certainly is not how those who's properties have been affected by the water damage will feel.

But as the week progressed the word "interesting" could again be used to describe our weeks weather in Stirling.
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So in one week I will take part in the Stirling marathon, or as its been branded this year the Great Stirling Run. The event is now in its 3rd year and it's a scenic marathon starting and finishing in the City of Stirling while taking in the surrounding rolling countryside to the north of the city,  passing through small towns such as Doune, Dunblane and Bridge of Allan where the locals come out in force to support the runners.

Now let me be honest from the beginning, I am no running expert, while I was actively fit playing football at a reasonably competitive youth level up until my late teens, for the next 16-17 years I let myself go, fed up with sport, giving no thought to exercising or what I was eating, I was just being consumed with work and business and as my business developed and grew and I became more office based instead of doing physical work my weight ballooned.

My new podcast is now available where I will discuss business, fitness and family.

Hopefully I will provide some words of wisdom along the way.

The podcast is available to listen and subscribe to on a host of popular platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Full details are on my new podcast page.

Congratulations Loch Katrine on the official opening of the new Eco Camp.
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