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Brrr-ace yourselves! Temperatures set to plummet to -10C this weekend

The Met Office expects temperatures to drop into negative figures with Aviemore experiencing a bitter -10C.

Wintry and windy conditions are making it challenging for SSEN to return power to more than a thousand customers impacted by power outages Saturday morning. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson.
Wintry and windy conditions are making it challenging for SSEN to return power to more than a thousand customers impacted by power outages Saturday morning. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson.

Temperatures are set to plummet this weekend across the Highlands, Aberdeenshire and Moray.

Scotland has been gripped by cold weather over the past few days, with the Met Office issuing several yellow weather warnings for snow and ice.

The latest alert is a yellow weather warning for snow and ice in the Western Isles due to last until midnight on Saturday.

However, residents across the Highlands, Aberdeenshire and Moray will definitely still be feeling the cold over the weekend.

Snow at the Lecht ski centre.
Heavy snowfall at Lecht Ski Centre, Image: Sandy McCook/DC Thomson

In the Cairngorms, snow fall has blanketed the region in white snow, evoking images of a winter wonderland.

Both the Lecht Ski Centre and the Cairngorm Mountain Resort have welcomed the early snow fall as they prepare to open for the snowsports season in the coming weeks.

Temperatures are set to drop into negative figures with places inland such as Aviemore and Braemar reaching a biting -8C at least.

These are the minimum temperatures expected over the weekend:

  • Inverness -4C
  • Aberdeen -5C
  • Elgin -4C
  • Keith -5C
  • Peterhead -5C
  • Braemar -8C
  • Aviemore -10C
  • Fort William -6C
  • Thurso -3C
  • Stonehaven -5C
  • Banchory -7C
  • Oban -1C
  • Lerwick -1C
  • Kirkwall -2C

Weekend weather will be cold but sunny

According to the Met Office, while temperatures will drop the weather is to remain relatively sunny and clear in most places.

In anticipation of the icy conditions, councils have deployed their team of gritters to salt the roads across the north and north-east.

Gritters are out as temperatures plummet this weekend.
Gritters are out and about salting the main roads across Aberdeen. Image: Darrell Benns / DC Thomson.

Aberdeen City Council is warning of “heavy frost” overnight into Saturday and gritters will be out on the primary roads.

Motorists should take extra caution on untreated roads as these could be extremely slippy due to frost and ice.

Temperatures are expected to rise at the beginning of next week but will still remain close to freezing.

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