A Month Of Rain In 36 Hours

Road and rail routes hit by torrential downpours

- Paul Drury

Torrential downpours dumped more than a month’s worth of rain across eastern Scotland at the weekend as Storm Alex battered the UK, sparking landslides.

Angus and Aberdeenshire normally receive just 3.9in of rain during the entire month of October.

But a weather station operated by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency registered almost 4.9in at Mongour in Aberdeenshire between Friday night and yesterday afternoon.

Forecaster Tom Morgan said: “It is a huge amount of rain to fall in just 36 hours. It is only because the region has been relatively dry that there were not more issues than there have been.