Highlands of Scotland battered by thunderstorms and flooding

Floods, transport chaos and power cuts

It’s been going on for days now and shows no immediate sign of abating: Loch Ness, The Great Glen Way and the wider Highlands are being decimated by terrifying thunderstorms and floods with wide spread power loss, train and bus cancellations and chaos.

A Loch Ness Research Weather Station

Fortunately, academics at at The Loch Ness Research and Investigation Project have been closely monitoring the situation.

They use a myriad of specialist data collection methods based around cutting edge weather instrumentation and you can monitor real time data from one of their centres here.