Weather: From scorching heat to murk and rain, it's going to be a weekend of two halves

One day you’re everyone’s hero, the next day you’re a villain. The life of a weatherman.

We’ve brought lots of sunshine and high temperatures today, with those scorching conditions lasting into the first half of the weekend, but it’s all change come Sunday as things will turn cooler and we’ll all see some spells of rain.

We sometimes hold off from using the term hot and try to lean more towards warm, but today has definitely been hot.

We’ve seen our warmest day of the year so far, with temperatures breaking the current record of 25.7C recorded at Lossiemouth on June 13. At midday we saw highs of 27.1C at Aviemore and Fyvie Castle and a high of 27C at Charterhall.

Tonight will be an uncomfortable night for many of us as temperatures in many towns and cities will not drop below 18Cor 19C, so a bit of a sticky and muggy night to come.

Along with that we have lengthy clear spells, which will lead to some mist and murk forming around eastern coastal parts, but for the majority it will remain clear and dry.

A murky start to the day for some on Saturday, especially in the east, but elsewhere a mixture of sunny spells with a few showers developing towards the north and north west Highlands.

For most people though, Saturday will be another fine and dry day – the main thing to note is there is more of a breeze, so the winds will take the edge off the temperatures and we will likely see highs of 28C/29C.

It’s interesting to note the average for around this time of year is around 16C/17C, so things are well above average for the time of year.

But it’s all change on Sunday as an occluded front moves in from the west, bringing with it longer spells of rain that will eventually work its way eastwards across all parts by the evening.

Furthermore, it will be feeling fresher and cooler, with temperatures down a good few degrees. We’ll see highs of 20C in the best of any sunny spells in the east through the afternoon.