Scotland set for summer warmth as weekend heat map lights up to 22C in one area

Fine summer days have been few and far between, but it looks like temperatures could rise from this weekend.

Schools have broken up for the year and Scots will be heading elsewhere to catch some rays. A yellow warning for rain is currently in effect in the northeast, with the alert beginning late Tuesday and extending until midnight today.

Conditions could improve this weekend, with the Met Office predicting drier weather and WXCharts showing temperatures breaking 20C. The site, which uses Met Desk data, shows the mercury warming up to 22C in Perthshire this Sunday July 14.

The warmth appears to spread on Monday July 15. WXCharts temperature maps show Scotland turn from green to yellow with temperatures widely forecasted between 17-20C.

For the period of July 15 to July 21, Netweather TV says: “There is quite a strong signal for pressure to be above normal to the north of Britain during this week, with the jet stream running to the south, sending low pressure systems across the British Isles at times.”

It won’t be a “total washout” next week due to a high pressure system, explains the forecaster. Central Europe is set to experience hot temperatures that might extend to Britain. Temperatures will be above normal in Scotland, but hot interludes are possibly “chiefly” east and southeast of England.

There is an extra bit of good news for Scots. Netweather says the northeast of Scotland will be drier than average, so jackets and waterproofs can get a rest.

“However, relatively high pressure to the north-east may result in southerly winds remaining relatively frequent, and there are indications that the jet stream may end up rather weak, meaning not a total washout for most of the country, with an emphasis on shallow low pressure systems.

“Generally, it looks likely to become hot in central Europe and cool in the eastern North Atlantic, with Britain lying on the boundary, suggesting that temperatures will be near or slightly below average in Northern Ireland and some other western parts of Britain, but probably above normal overall in the east of both England and Scotland.

It continued: “Again, there is not a strong signal for rainfall or sunshine amounts to deviate substantially from average for most of the country, although there may again be considerable regional variation, particularly in the rainfall.

“However, it looks likely that with anomalously high pressure to the north-east for a lot of the time, north-east Scotland will be drier than average. Cloudier than average weather is most likely in the south-west of Britain, while north-eastern Britain is most likely to be sunnier than average.”

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