{"id":422611,"date":"2026-02-12T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422611\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:49:09","slug":"aberdeen-finally-sees-sunshine-for-first-time-since-21-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422611\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen finally sees sunshine for first time since 21 January"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists say climate changes means periods of more intense rainfall can be expected.<\/p>\n

Figures from the Met Office, external<\/a> suggest that 1.5C of warming could bring up to 16% more winter rainfall to Aberdeen and 13% more in Aberdeenshire, compared with levels in the 1980s and 90s.<\/p>\n

Lead weather presenter Helen Willetts said: “It’s been so wet and grey for many parts of the UK.<\/p>\n

“However, finally on Thursday, Aberdeen recorded 30 minutes of sunshine officially bringing its sunless spell to an end. <\/p>\n

“Surrounding areas in north-east Scotland might well have seen a smidge of blue sky on Thursday too, but Friday is the day when the cycle will be properly broken and the sunshine will return more widely.”<\/p>\n

BBC Scotland weather presenter Judith Ralston said: “With a change in weather type, we finally lose the stuck pattern of cloud, rain, and bitingly cold winds. <\/p>\n

“This finally breaks, allowing a northerly air mass to set in, bringing much drier, brighter conditions, sunshine on the way on Friday and Saturday and a few wintry showers on Friday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists say climate changes means periods of more intense rainfall can be expected. Figures from the Met Office,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-422611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}