Loch Ness Water Levels
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.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65786868
Another damp squib then!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
‘It can hold more water – 7,452 million cubic metres – than all English and Welsh lakes together.’
What is that in cubic elephants?
—or in cubic Nessies?
It’s 263 million cubic feet, or 13 thousand million cubic big toes.
3 trunks and a metric tusk
The Loch is over 200m deep, so I’m not sure what they are worried about!
“They” are trying to worry us so that we simpletons will destroy our economy,
They know perfectly well that all this warming stuff is of no consequence,
Curious. Google Earth shows the surface at about 50 ft elevation. At 200m depth, much (most?) of Loch Ness is below sea level.
Maybe there are more monsters in it drinking it?
(No don’t explain the physics of why that is nonsense – I am well enough qualified to know).
Some years ago ‘New Civil Engineer’ claimed that loads on Thomas Telford and William Jessop’s Pontcysyllte aqueduct, would increase when a barge crossed. Might if it ran aground I suppose!
I remember watching a man with a long barge who would not follow the two already crossing ahead. He was genuinely scared that he would overload it. This was the big canal bridge in Wales whose name I cannot recall.
It might have if it were pulled by a horse. Note: I have been across said viaduct, but under diesel power: there is a towpath alongside.
Pontcysyllte I guess, 1804, a splendid testimony to Telford’s genius, barge not named Eureka probably. He also straightened out our creek, that worked well for 250+ years until lack of use allowed silting so that getting out into Swale is a challenge now.
Good point ‘idau’, although pedestrians now would be a bigger load. Pedestrians packed together weight twice normal (not BEV) cars.
Well in a similar vein, ive noted a gradual lowering of atmospheric pressure as global population rises. Drinking it in i suspect.
Wind speeds too since he windmill menace started.
Meanwhile in the ‘Scorchio!’ South East; Bewl 99%, Darwell 90%, Powdermill 100%, Weir Wood 100%. Hose pipe ban incoming in ??? days?
https://www.southernwater.co.uk/water-for-life/reservoir-levels
You might find this 2019 twitter extract quite amusing. The Met Office guy had to be told by punters that there was an official Met Office Station at Brogdale!
2003, remember it well, we were in the middle of a big conservation project at St Peters, Oare (Grade I, well worth a visit), the new lime plaster on south wall at chancel end cracked, easily repaired. Mayor of Gravesend claimed record but had to retract when Brogdale reported a few days later (weekly, minor station).
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1069126
Hi Nigel, were you aware of the “activities” at Brogdale at the time of the “record”? It was locally known (but kept under wraps) that a few locals might just have played around with building materials at the site to slightly “alter” the Brogdale Stations readings. When the Royal Meteorological Society investigated the 2003 figures ( they were suspicious) the report commented that “interference from visitors unknown cannot be ruled out”
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1256/wea.10.04B
You can still see the building materials in the photo taken in September 2003.
It appears the Met Office are quietly letting this station drop off their records in the same way the even dodgier Gravesend/Broadness site has which was quietly shut down some years ago.
Yes, I enjoyed the controversy and the various theories, talk of tractor or possibly ice cream van exhaust too! It was certainly hot, the dogs had to be taken out at dawn or else would refuse to go, I had to redo a day’s error-strewn work (spotted the errors in time fortunately).
Sepa said drier than usual conditions in recent months were likely to be a “significant contributing factor” for the drop.
Who knew? 🙄
Met office is claiming a date record of 32.2C at Chertsey, beating 1970 Malden record of 31.7C. Is Chertsey an official site? If you look for the last 24hrs weather the MO site just gives you the nearest station Heathrow, 7 odd miles away. 32.2C is miraculously spot on 90F. What are the chances!
In what possible way is “lowest in five years” news? Levels go up and down.
I drove last a few lochs yesterday, including Ness, and they all looked quite low. Temp peaked at 27.5. Two very heavy downpours during the night. Dried up already.
hold on isn’t the waters supposede to be rising, according to climate change
Hysteria over Great Lakes water levels dropping a few years ago due to “climate crisis” not only abated but switched over to the highest levels on record between 2011 and 2022.
The one thing to note is that nothing stays the same for long. “This too shall pass” is a good phraseology to remember with regards to climate and most everything else in life.