Scotland is set to experience a mild but cloudy Guy Fawkes night on Tuesday with temperatures sticking at around 10 degrees throughout the day and evening across the country.
Glasgow could even experience it being warmer, with suggestions from the Met Office that the temperature could reach as high as 12 degrees Celsius, and it’s due to get even warmer as the week goes on with the potential for high teens.
It’s good news for anyone celebrating Guy Fawkes night, which commemorates a failed attempt to blow up the UK parliament in 1605.
People across the UK celebrate it with fireworks displays and bonfires and they may be able to do so without the need to get as wrapped up as they normally would at this time of year.
The Met Office says Tuesday will be “remaining dry with a good deal of cloud and also some brighter interludes. Staying mild. Maximum temperature 12 °C.”
It’s a similar story in Edinburgh with temperatures expected to be a degree or two lower than in the west of Scotland, while it’s likely to be a bit colder in the Highlands too but still not at freezing levels.
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Tom Morgan, a meteorologist with the Met Office, said: “It’s going to be mild for this time of year, so you won’t necessarily need hats and scarves and gloves.
“With temperatures expected to be probably still in the double figures for many places in the evening hours.”
Mr Morgan also said the UK would be unaffected by the recent weather patterns that have brought heavy rain and flash flooding to Spain.
He said: “You’ve got contrasting fortunes whether you’re living in north-west Europe and down across southern Europe.
“It’s very different weather patterns affecting Iberia.
“It’s a slow-moving area of low pressure that’s bringing the very unsettled thundery weather with heavy rain and thunderstorms.
“Across the UK, we’ve got high pressure, which acts as a lid on our weather.
“It causes the air to descend, and as that happens, there’s no upward motion in the air, so it means there’s no recipe for clouds to produce rain, and it also means the winds are going to be light.”
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