Exact date SNOW to return to Scotland as cold plunge hits after brief scorcher

SCOTS have been urged to brace for the return of snow this week as temperatures are set to plummet amid a cold snap.

It comes after a brief summer scorcher on the weekend, where the mercury reached 22C in parts of Edinburgh.

And on Saturday, Scotland claimed three of the UK’s top five hottest spots on the first day of official summer.

However, the sunny spells are set to be short-lived, with heavy rain and even some snow on the way.

Forecasters predicted that snow could fall across higher ground tonight and into tomorrow as cold air sweeps into the country, the Daily Record reported.

Met Office meteorologist Annie Shuttleworth reported: “It’s going to turn a little bit colder particularly through Tuesday and into Wednesday when we see this dive of cold air from the north spread across the country.

“It won’t move particularly quickly south and eastwards and will arrive into north and west first of all through Tuesday.”

Temperatures are set to be a lot colder over the next few days, with the mercury plummeting to around 7C tomorrow.

And with a cooler breeze in the air, temps will struggle to rise above the mid teens – with high of 13C in Aberdeen.

Ms Shuttleworth added: “Now that cold air continues to dive south and eastwards through the night on Tuesday night into Wednesday and this occluded front brings the focus of some quite heavy showers through Wednesday morning.

“And those showers could fall as snow over the high ground of Scotland, which is not that typical for early summer but isn’t completely unusual.

“Snow’s only really expected over above 600m in Scotland.”

The Met Office’s forecast for tonight said: “Rain will clear the southeast during the evening.

“Staying windy in the north with scattered showers, hail is possible in Scotland. Dry in the south overnight with clear skies. Chilly.”

It will continue to be “cool and breezy in the north” with some “sunny spells and blustery showers”.

Blustery showers are set to continue across the north of the country over the weekend.

It comes as the UK had its warmest May and meteorological spring on record.

The average mean temperature of 13.1C beat 2008’s previous record figure of 12.1C in a series which dates back to 1884.