BBC Climate watchers: Wendy HomeScotland has recorded its hottest day of the 12 months thus far, with temperatures passing 30C (86F) within the Highlands.
Aviemore has reached 30.8C, beating the earlier excessive of 29.1C recorded in Grangemouth final month.
The Scottish heatwave officially began yesterday, with Met Workplace standards requiring temperatures to achieve 25C on three consecutive days in the identical space.
The warmth may peak at 31C in Perthshire and inland Aberdeenshire, with 27C anticipated within the central belt and the north east.
The Met Workplace stated the final time temperatures in Scotland exceeded 30C was simply over two years in the past, on 13 June 2023.
It comes as a number of massive out of doors occasions happen across the nation together with the Tiree Music Pageant, the Island Video games in Orkney and TRNSMT in Glasgow.
NHS Better Glasgow and Clyde has urged folks to remain secure by making certain they drink water and are shielded from the solar.
Dr Emilia Crichton, director of public well being, stated: “It doesn’t matter what you are doing, please benefit from the good climate safely by defending your self when within the solar, staying hydrated, and having widespread medicines at hand.”
In Speyside, the Scotsman newspaper studies that a number of whisky distilleries have shut down summer season manufacturing early resulting from low water ranges on the River Spey.
Distilleries usually have shutdown durations for upkeep and to minimise the impression on the native rivers that present their water.
Atmosphere company Sepa stated the primary half of 2025 has been the driest within the east of Scotland since 1973, with eight rivers dealing with water shortage since mid-Could.
The company has no present plans to cease industries from taking river water – generally known as abstraction – however stated the “danger of required restrictions shouldn’t be over”.
Sepa senior supervisor Eilidh Johnston stated: “It will not take a warmth wave to tip rivers into disaster. Sustained low flows and dry soils are already placing stress on companies and the setting.
“We’re asking all abstractors to remain conscious of situations and verify the native direct station knowledge repeatedly particularly within the east the place stress is constructing”
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Louise Omerod: Craigrossie PrintingIn the meantime, hearth crews are spending a second day tackling an outdoor blaze in Perth, with an excessive wildfire warning in place for a lot of Scotland till Monday.
Emergency companies had been alerted to the blaze close to the M90, within the Craigend space of Perth on Friday afternoon.
Six hearth engines and a specialist wildfire unit have been despatched.
SFRS group commander Raymond King stated: “We’re asking the general public to train excessive warning and suppose twice earlier than utilizing something involving a unadorned flame.
“Many rural and distant communities are massively impacted by wildfires, which may trigger vital harm.”
Earlier in July, components of the north of Scotland have been hit by wildfires on a “huge scale” which burned for a number of days, prompting a police investigation.
At Loch Lomond, Police Scotland has launched Operation Ballaton to deal with dysfunction and disruptive incidents within the space.
Insp Colin Cameron stated: “Balloch and the encircling areas entice massive numbers of individuals in the course of the summer season months, and we’re dedicated to creating certain they continue to be secure, welcoming locations for everybody.
The operation, which has been carried out in earlier years, can be in pressure in the course of the summer season months.
