The temperature at Aboyne today reached 17.9C which equals Scotland's February maximum temperature record, last reached in Aberdeen in 1897.
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It is slightly behind the highest ever temperature recorded in Scotland which was February 13 in Greenwich in 1998.
This time last year we were bracing ourselves for the arrival of the Beast From The East. By contrast, this year we've got an exceptionally #mild feed of air being drawn towards us from the south #ThrowbackThursday pic.twitter.com/y63ZVkZfGt
— Met Office (@metoffice) February 21, 2019
A spokesman for the Met Office said: "A powerful jetstream and cold air feeding out of North America into the West Atlantic is generating deep areas of low pressure here.
At 12:23pm the temperature at Aboyne in Scotland reached 17.9C which equals Scotland's February maximum temperature record, last reached in Aberdeen on 22.2.1897
— Met Office (@metoffice) February 21, 2019
"Meanwhile, further east this is helping to build a marked ridge of high pressure and drawing some exceptionally mild air across the UK.
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