Pretty in pink
Pink cherry blossom trees line Edinburgh’s Meadows as Scotland basked in glorious Bank Holiday sunshine yesterday.
SCOTS flocked to parks and beaches yesterday as forecasters reported record-breaking temperatures for the UK.
The Met Office said it was hottest early May Bank Holiday weekend on record, with the mercury rising to 28.7°C (83.7°F) in Northolt, west London.
Introduced in 1978, the early May Bank Holiday record for the weekend had previously been 28.6°C, which was set in 1995. Scotland just missed out on breaking its own record but it still had its hottest day of the year so far with 23.1°C at Charterhall in Berwickshire, while sun worshippers in the Central Belt soaked up temperatures of up to 19.1°C.
Aberdeenshire and the Highlands struggled to reach these warmer spells, only managing about 11°C and 12°C, though forecasters said Aberdeen would get its fair share of the heat today, with temperatures around 20°C.
However, the sunny weather in Scotland is not set to last, as bands of cloud and rain will push in from the Atlantic, with the weather becoming much more changeable for the rest of the week, the Met Office said.
Forecaster Greg Dewhurst said that as of today, “the west is going to stay cloudy with outbreaks of rain at times” though it would only be light and patchy.
“The east will stay quite dry and bright and sunny, particularly Aberdeenshire. It will be nice in the east with sunny spells, further west it will be between 12°C and 15°C, and through the latter part of the day the rain will push into Aberdeenshire into the evening.”