After experiencing one of the wettest months on record, the north-east seemed to be gearing up for a repeat showing in July when rainfall caused major disruption across the area yesterday.
As school children enjoyed the first week of their summer holidays, heavy flooding on the train line between Dyce and Inverurie meant all trains were cancelled or delayed until normal service resumed at 2.30pm.
ScotRail initially tweeted that the line between Dyce and Inverurie was closed and later put up an update stating train services between Aberdeen and Inverness, and Aberdeen and Inverurie, would be “delayed or revised”.
Some parts of the region received 15mm of rain in under two hours.
But despite that deluge, the forecast looks brighter this weekend and heading into the rest of July.
Aberdeen-based Met Office forecaster, Matt Roe said last night: “At lunchtime today, we saw some fairly heavy rain develop across Aberdeenshire that led to accumulations of around 15mm in the space of two hours.
“It’s looking much better at the weekend after the weather we’ve been having. It’s looking drier, quite sunny and warmer with temperatures reaching up to 21C in Aberdeenshire. It will be much better than the last couple of days.”
Confirming that the temperature had dropped to 13C in Friday, Mr Roe joked the north-east had been “lucky” and added: “What we saw today was a fairly common occurrence for the summer. It was just confined to the north-east.”
He confirmed the forecast for the weekend was much drier and sunnier on Saturday, but with chances of drizzle in the Buchan and Moray areas.
Provisional statistics from the Met Office put June on a par with 1938, with 156mm of rainfall measured on average.
Scotrail last night also warned of further disruption as engineering works are due to take place this Sunday. Services between Aberdeen and Inverness will be terminating at Inverurie and re-starting at Keith.
Buses will transfer passengers to and from Inverurie to Keith as a replacement service.
