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from "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom contains these words:

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At a more local level, the biggest deficits this year are in eastern
Scotland, roughly from Fife up to Sutherland, where the annual
rainfall looks like being close to 60% of the long-term mean.

The rain of the last week has finally brought the soil up to capacity.
Lochs still very low with the water inlet on the loch which supplies the
public water supply in the Kyle, still on dry ground. 24 hour pumping
is maintaining the water supply from the loch into the water inlet!

Phil.
From the Kyle of Sutherland - 175 feet AMSL [NH 616916]
(40 miles north of Inverness)