The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Tayside and Fife set to be as warm as Portugal
Thunderstorms expected to give way to warmer climes
Tayside and Fife will be hit by thunderstorms, downpours and sweltering heat this week as erratic weather moves across the UK.
Despite predictions of severe conditions across Courier Country this morning, Scotland is expected to enjoy its warmest day of the year tomorrow as a heatwave endures across the UK.
Yesterday a yellow Met Office warning for thunderstorms was put in place across the whole of Tayside and Fife alongside Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) flood alerts for Dundee, Angus and Fife. They are effective until this morning.
However the poor conditions will clear in the afternoon to once again give way to warmer climes with Dundee expected to enjoy 25C heat and Perthshire 23C.
The weather is expected to peak tomorrow with temperatures of up to 30C due in parts of Scotland – hotter than the likes of Barbados, which is due to be 28C, and Lisbon, Portugal, which is expected to be 27C.
Locally the hottest place is expected to be Perthshire where the mercury could climb to 27C.
The Met Office says there is a chance that Scotland’s 2019 high of 30C, set on June 28 at Auchnagatt, may be broken tomorrow.
There is also a chance that the UK’s all-time record of 38.5C could be bested south of the border tomorrow.
It comes after temperatures hit a high of 28.1C in Scotland yesterday with the hottest local spots being Leuchars at 24.8C and Strathallan Airfield at 24.6C. The UK’s hottest place was Northolt, London, which at 33.7C.
Met Office meteorologist Luke Miall said: “We have got a thunderstorm warning in force until 9am today. What we are going to see is basically an area of thunderstorms coming up from France and Spain. There is a risk of potentially frequent lightning, rainfall, large hail as well and quite significant winds. They will clear off very rapidly and basically once we get to 10am-11am we should have completely turned dry and then it is mostly a dry and sunny day.
“Essentially you have got hot weather lasting for a couple of more days across Scotland.
“As we go through tomorrow most places will be dry with some sunshine.
“Temperatures will continue to peak today and tomorrow particularly in the south-east of the UK. Temperatures for tomorrow across Scotland as a whole will be 29C-30C.”
Temperatures will continue to peak today and tomorrow. LUKE MIALL, MET OFFICE