Snow can cover the ground in Scotland for a long time. Using daily northern hemisphere snow and ice analysis data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, the following map shows the estimated number of days of snow cover (~1 to 151 days) across Scotland between 1st January 2020 and 30th December 2020. …
Scotland’s Rainfall in 2020
From the western Highlands (one of the wettest parts of Europe) to the east coast lowlands, the amount of rainfall experienced by Scotland varies a lot. Using Tanaka contours and precipitation estimates derived from combined microware and infra red satellite data from the Giovanni service at NASA Earth Data, the following map was produced to …
Scotland’s Electric Vehicle Charging Points
At the end of 2020, Transport Scotland published the National Transport Strategy (NTS2) - Delivery Plan – 2020 to 2022. Two of the actions in the plan are to: "support households and businesses to make the switch to zero emission vehicles" and "support strategically coordinated investment in the charging network" Leading on from the 2013 …
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Scottish Trunk Road Fatal Accidents
There were a total of 519 fatal accidents on Scotland's trunk roads between 1st January 2010 and 31st December 2019. Over this period, the deadliest years were 2013 and 2016 with 63 fatalities each year. The deadliest road was the A9 with 74 fatalities in total. The fatalities recorded occurred at locations which were part …
Geographic Codes and Names of Scotland
In 2004 Scotland implemented a new coding and naming policy for Scottish statistical geographies aimed at geographies that are required for government administrative functions, legislation or publication of official statistics. At the heart of this policy is the concept of a Government Statistical Service (GSS) nine digit alpha-numeric code which is divided into three elements: …
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