Highland Weather & Climate Story Map
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The Highland Weather and Climate Story Map collects your experiences related to weather and climate in the Scottish Highlands. It documents how weather and climate impact our daily lives, livelihoods, and the environment. This is the human side of climate data.

These stories will stay available for residents of the Highland region to track how our home is changing over time. They will also be incorporated into the first Highland Climate Risk and Opportunity Assessment, which will help to identify the priorities for action to and adapt to the impacts of climate change across the region. 

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Dava Moor, Moray
June 2025, largest wildfire by area ever recorded for the UK - approximately 120 square miles. 
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Slochd Mhor
30 July 2000 Localised cloud burst - slow moving weather system caused flooding and landslip damaging the A9(T). High capital cost to repair and threatened main road access to Inverness with closure. ...
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Strathdearn
Like many of my community colleagues Strathdearn have also had a lengthy power outage. Thanks to our resilience plan of solar & battery storage plus a generator we have ‘weathered’ the storm. Shop...
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Strathdearn
...Very well done the team at Strathdearn during Storm Floris. Climate resilence planning and investment in the community paying off well. Project managers turned soup servers and staff on duty in Hub...
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Insh
In Storm Floris, there was a power outage for a few hours, and trees that had fallen blocking the roads. I realised how vulnerable we can be without transport and electricity.  The roads were qui...
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Skye's coastline
There is so much more dolphins and lots more boats out and about.
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Skye
Due to unseasonably hot summers when I take my dogs for walks they overheat sooner, getting all puffy and they had to have lots of water.
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Skye
It is harder to sleep because it is hotter at night.
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Travelling around the Highlands
I have noticed wildfires across the Highlands, and recently after the wildfires in July I was delayed on my journey to Aviemore by fire engines heading up to tackle some fires.
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Isle of Skye
I’ve noticed many more birds this year than previously; we have masses of house sparrows. I think it is because spring started so early, with consistently warmer weather, that the plants and animals b...
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Dingwall
‘I have noticed wildfires across the Highlands, and yesterday I was delayed on my journey to Aviemore by fire engines heading up to tackle some fires.’
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Isle of Skye
I’ve noticed many more birds this year than previously; we have masses of house sparrows. I think it is because spring started so early, with consistently warmer weather, that the plants and animals b...
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The Hirsel
Water source dries up annually, whereas it only dried up on rare occasions before. The weather patterns have shifted, so that the ground is too wet for farm vehicles and it's often raining during what...
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Our Hame
3 days of overcast or misty conditions  *Originally submitted to the Highland Weather & Climate Story Map Commonplace Platform on 22 September 2024.
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Upper Camster
Lived here 16 years, last couple of winters have been very wet and burns have risen and flooded more times in those 2 winters than the previous winters put together. Also snowed in for 1st time earlie...
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Dingwall
We live near a beautiful, peaceful cemetery. The high winds and rain fall have been consistently damaging the head stones, with multiple, heavy marble columns falling down. The local council maintain ...
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Millerton Avenue
*Originally submitted to the Highland Weather & Climate Story Map Commonplace Platform on 14 September 2024.
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Dalnabay, Aviemore
Flooding along the River Spey, more frequent storms, unseasonably cool summers, unseasonably mild winters.  *Originally submitted to the Highland Weather & Climate Story Map Commonplace Platf...
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Wattenon
I feel the weather in the Caithness is colder have lived here for 26 years and it's definitely going colder this year yet again summer never really happened just a few good days enough to get the hay ...
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Kinlochleven
Late snow in June and early snow in September  *Originally submitted to the Highland Weather & Climate Story Map Commonplace Platform on 11 September 2024.
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Culloden Battlefield Trail
We've lived in Inverness for two years near wooded areas, and for the first two years, my kids would have to spend about two weeks catching baby frogs/toads to move behind our garden so that our poult...
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Skye & Lochalsh
There seems to be a worrying increase in landslide and landslide in the area. The most recent at Totaig where tourists in the path below had to literally run for their lives. Recent landslides on the...
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Brora Back Shore
The coast at Brora is experiencing increased stormy weather, leading to instability and erosion along the back shore. This is causing damage to the archaeological sites linked to the area's salt and c...
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Home of the North Highland Way
Share a story of how you have experienced weather and/or climate at this place When I lived there from 1999 to 2014 we experienced a wide range of weather. High winds were normaly. Have you observed t...
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