{"id":7062,"date":"2019-08-09T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:31:41","slug":"highlands-of-scotland-battered-by-thunderstorms-and-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/09\/highlands-of-scotland-battered-by-thunderstorms-and-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlands of Scotland battered by thunderstorms and flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"363\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bridgeflood.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bridgeflood.jpg 363w, https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bridgeflood-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 85vw, 363px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Floods, transport chaos and power cuts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/uk-scotland-49267605\/dramatic-footage-shows-flooding-in-carrbridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"thunderstorms and floods (opens in a new tab)\">thunderstorms and floods<\/a> with wide spread power loss, train and bus cancellations and chaos. <\/p><div id=\"lochn-672091548\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/weather-stationsm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7577\" width=\"174\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/weather-stationsm.jpg 432w, https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/weather-stationsm-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 85vw, 174px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Loch Ness Research Weather Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, academics at at The Loch Ness Research and Investigation Project have been closely monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lochness.co.uk\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"centres here. (opens in a new tab)\">centres here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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. Fortunately, academics at at The Loch Ness Research and Investigation Project have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/09\/highlands-of-scotland-battered-by-thunderstorms-and-flooding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Highlands of Scotland battered by thunderstorms and flooding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions\/7579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}