Lightning strikes continue to cause disruption to the electricity network in north-
A lightning strike near Fort Augustus at 9.05am resulted in a loss of supply to Skye and the Western Isles.
In total around 27,000 customers lost power.
Local power stations have started to supplies until the main line is repaired.
A spokesman for SSE said: “We’d like to apologise to customers for the loss of supply this morning.
“We appreciate that many of these customers also lost supply yesterday and we’d like to assure them that we are doing everything we can to get them back on as quickly as possible.”
Lightning has been the biggest feature of the 'weather bomb.' It has continued through the night and is forecast to continue today.
Yesterday (Wed), hydro engineers restored supplies to around 31,000 customers affected by more than 100 high voltage network faults mostly caused by lightening strikes.
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