Overnight temperatures in Tayside and Fife are set to be warmer than the likes of Barcelona and Rome during an unseasonably warm spell this week.
Locals in Dundee, Angus, Fife and Perthshire will see highs of 15°C on Thursday and 16°C on Friday – more than double the November average for the east of Scotland.
People across the region may also be able to switch their heating off on Thursday night, with overnight lows of 14°C forecast.
Met Office data shows that the average maximum temperature for the east of Scotland between 1991 and 2020 was just 7.74°C and the average low was 1.93°C.
Barcelona will be about 13°C on Thursday night into Friday morning, and it will be 12°C overnight in Rome.
The Met Office forecast for Thursday says: “Windy and very mild and staying mainly dry with some bright spells, the best of the these around the coast.
“Patchy rain over western hills. Maximum temperature 16°C.”
It will be windy with patchy rain but staying mild on Friday.
And conditions will remain breezy but mild into the weekend with temperatures of about 14°C expected on Saturday, which will be “mainly dry and bright”, and staying dry on Sunday.
Predictions of Scotland’s hottest-ever night
It comes amid predictions that Thursday could be Scotland’s hottest-ever night.
According to The Times, temperatures in Glasgow and Dyce could overtake the 14.5°C record set in the Aberdeenshire town in November 2007.
Grahame Madge, of the Met Office, said: “I am not saying temperature records will definitely be broken but the conditions will be right for that to happen.”
The conditions are in contrast to just a few years ago, when mid-November temperatures in parts of Angus and Perthshire hit -5°C.
But there were similarly mild conditions in Tayside and Fife in November last year, when the region was said to be warmer than Madrid and Venice.
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