Helensburgh weather: Mini heatwave this weekend as lockdown set to ease

Nicola Sturgeon is due to announce on Thursday whether or not the country can move into 'phase 1' of the route-map out of lockdown.

If this is the case, Scots can sunbathe in parks/beaches and meet one other household outside or in gardens from Friday - while maintaining physical distance.

Non-contact sport like golf and fishing can also be allowed.

And forecasters are predicting sizzling temperatures across the country - just in time.

In Glasgow, forecasters are predicitng 24C on Friday, with 23C on Saturday and 22C on Sunday.

The Met Office is predicting slightly lower maximums in Helensburgh itself, where temperatures are likely to peak at 19C every day from Thursday through to Tuesday of next week.

A Met Office statement reads: "A dry spell of weather with long bright or sunny spells.

"Becoming very warm with temperatures reaching the mid twenties Celsius."

But despite the warm temperatures, the public are being warned over the "genuine danger" that coronavirus will begin to spread as the lockdown measures are eased.

Over the next few days it looks set to be very warm in many places. Today and tomorrow the highest temperatures will be in the South East, but as the week goes on the peak of the warmth will transfer north and west #StayHomeSaveLives # StayAlert pic.twitter.com/TYoSNMzyaR

— Met Office (@metoffice) May 26, 2020

Speaking on Monday, the First Minister said that “even as we glimpse a possible end to some lockdown restrictions” it is “more important than ever” to follow the measures that remain in place.

“As we start to lift these restrictions there is a genuine danger that the virus will start to spread again a bit more quickly,” she said.

“The way in which we ensure that doesn’t happen – and that way in which we enable even more restrictions to be lifted in future – is to continue to follow whatever public health guidance is in place at the time.”