Loch Ness Water Levels

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By Paul Homewood

There has been much hyperventilating about low water levels in N Scotland.

But it turns out that the water at Loch Ness has been lower on four occasions since 1998:

Loch Ness has dropped to its lowest level in five years, according to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).

Sepa said drier than usual conditions in recent months were likely to be a “significant contributing factor” for the drop.

Loch Ness is Scotland’s largest freshwater loch by volume.

It can hold more water – 7,452 million cubic metres – than all English and Welsh lakes together.

Sepa said its data showed the water level was at its lowest since the current loch level monitoring station began operating in 2016.

The agency said lower levels had been recorded at the previous station in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2010.

Another damp squib then!