Aberdeen sees sunshine for the primary time in 21 days | Aberdeen

Aberdeen has lastly had some sunshine for the primary time in 21 days, marking the tip of the longest sunless interval within the space since Met Workplace data started in 1957.

Residents of the Granite metropolis in north-east Scotland glimpsed the solar late on Thursday afternoon with sunshine final recorded on 21 January.

The Met Workplace mentioned that half-hour was formally recorded within the Dyce space within the hour as much as 4pm.

It adopted weeks of unrelenting rain within the area and all through the UK in 2026.

Greater than 277mm of rain fell on Aboyne in Aberdeenshire in January, about 4 occasions the month-to-month common, whereas the primary 10 days of the 12 months introduced heavy snow to the north-east of Scotland.

In solely the primary three days of this month, south-east England acquired practically a 3rd of its common February rainfall.

The wintry climate is predicted to proceed with a yellow warning for snow and ice for many of Scotland and northern England in place till 12pm on Friday.

The Met Workplace spokesperson Grahame Madge mentioned an air mass known as Arctic maritime air is bringing temperatures down.

He mentioned: “The snow and ice warnings that we’ve issued in the intervening time cowl just about Scotland and northern components of England. There could also be some snow showers somewhat bit additional south than that.

“We’re not anticipating any notably impactful snow and the situations might be fairly transient earlier than we get one other system coming in from the Atlantic over the weekend, however for the following few days it should really feel fairly a bit completely different, as we’ve acquired colder air coming in.”

BBC Scotland climate presenter Judith Ralston mentioned: “With a change in climate kind, we lastly lose the caught sample of cloud, rain, and bitingly chilly winds.

“This lastly breaks, permitting a northerly air mass to set in, bringing a lot drier, brighter situations, sunshine on the way in which on Friday and Saturday and some wintry showers on Friday.”