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An amber warning for wind in southern and western Dumfries and Galloway and parts of South Ayrshire ran from 01:00 to 16:00 on Saturday You can check the latest weather warnings from the Met ...
An amber wind warning is in place for parts of Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire until 9pm on Saturday. The Energy Networks Association reported 86,000 homes in England, Scotland and Wales ...
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued five flood alerts across south-west Scotland, covering Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, Central Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway ...
Storm Darragh (known as Storm Xaveria in Germany) [1] was an extratropical cyclone which severely impacted the British Isles in December 2024. The fourth named (using the western group naming list) storm of the 2024–25 European windstorm season, Darragh was named by the UK Met Office on 5 December 2024.
The term Dumfries and Galloway has been used since at least the 19th century – by 1911 the three counties had a united sheriffdom under that name. Dumfries and Galloway covers the majority of the western area of the Southern Uplands, [3] it also hosts Scotland's most Southerly point, at the Mull of Galloway [4] in the west of the region.
For the majority of its 70 miles (110 km) course [3] it flows in a south-easterly direction through Dumfries and Galloway and then into the Solway Firth at Airds Point. [2] The territory through which the river flows is called Nithsdale (historically known as "Stranit" from Scottish Gaelic: Strath Nid, "valley of the Nith").
A Storm Bert amber warning for snow has been extended in Scotland to cover the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire. The Met Office alert was already in place for ...
The tributaries of the Cree are the Minnoch, Trool, Penkiln and Palnure which drain from the Range of the Awful Hand, the labyrinthine range of mountains and lochs, bogs, burns and crags, rising at its highest to The Merrick, Galloway (2,764 ft or 842 m above sea level), 12 miles (19 kilometres) north and visible from Newton Stewart.