Scotland will miss out on an Indian Summer which is bringing sweltering conditions of almost 40C to parts of Western Europe this week.
The jetstream passing across the Atlantic will push warm air from the south where countries including Spain and Portugal are expecting temperatures of about 36C on Friday – about 5C to 10C above the average for this time of year.
The changeable weather is due to the #jetstream which is running across the UK; as it pushes north, warmer air will feed in from the south pic.twitter.com/vtruKOY0Ui
— Met Office (@metoffice) October 9, 2017
However the rising heat expected later this week will not prompt an Indian Summer in Scotland, where locals may instead be hit by wind and rain caused by low pressure.
Despite the sweltering conditions expected in other parts of Europe, Dundee and Aberdeen are likely to be the two hottest parts of Scotland with the mercury expected to rise to no more than 17C come Thursday and Friday.
Met Office spokesman Oli Claydon said the weather north of the border will be “nothing to write home about”, with south-east England in line to be the hottest part of the UK with conditions in “the low twenties”.
“Right on Thursday and Friday we have got a push of warm air but it also means it will bring low pressure systems as well, it doesn’t necessarily mean we are going to have blue skies” he added.
“The low pressure is coming into the north-west of Scotland. A band of rain is making its way across the west to east although there are drier and brighter spells. There will be a bit of wind and rain.
“It could be 17C in Dundee on Friday. Aberdeen maybe 17C. It’s not particularly unusual to get these temperatures every now and then (in October).
“It is a series of several warm days after the first frost of autumn. There hasn’t been a really widespread frost yet.”
The highest October temperature on UK record is 29.9C.
