Scotland set to be battered by heavy rain and high winds as temperatures to plummet

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Temperatures will be slightly chillier than average with significantly less rainfall from Tuesday as the country recovers from a wet and windy start to 2024, forecasters have said.The Met Office said Monday will be the wettest day of the week as a band of rain pushes its way south-eastwards overnight, causing widespread rainfall across the country accompanied by strong, chilly winds.Temperatures will generally sit a little below their April average with particularly cold starts in Scotland, where cities such as Edinburgh and Glasgow are predicted to see early morning lows of 2C or 3C.Slightly warmer temperatures of around 8-10C are expected across England throughout the day, with highs of 12C.In some colder areas, such as northern Wales and Scotland, showers may be accompanied by wintry winds bringing sleet and hail, Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge said.He added: "Monday is classic April showers really.

We've got a pretty windy day across the whole of the UK with gusts of wind up to 40-50mph pretty much anywhere across the country."With that, we'll have some quite blustery showers which will be slightly wintry in nature across the northern parts of the UK. Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. "You could get a little bit of sleet and certainly some hail so it will be a much colder feeling day."But the rest of the week is predicted to be much drier and less windy, with localised showers in northern Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland on Tuesday but sunny weather elsewhere, especially south and east England.Some areas had unusually warm temperatures over the weekend - the highest being 21.8C recorded in Writtle, Essex, on Saturday - so the