Scotland’s dry climate to finish with rain and landslide caution

Scotland’s five-week stretch of dry climate will come to an finish later with heavy rain, hail and thunder anticipated over the weekend.

Drivers in Argyll were warned about possible landslides at the A83, with another path to be opened as a precaution.

Environment company Sepa has recorded water shortage around the nation after Scotland’s driest duration in 60 years.

But it warned that the incoming rain, which is due from Friday night time, is not going to be sufficient to refill river ranges.

It stated that there would wish to be “well above average rainfall” after the extended dry duration.

Sepa additionally stated there were no rainfall in portions of Fife for greater than a month and the east of Scotland was once specifically dry.

And it stated that if there was once no vital rainfall over the following seven days, the River Esk in Dumfriesshire could be raised to “significant scarcity”.

In Argyll, the A83 on the Rest and Be Thankful is understood for its possible for landslips.

Roads company Bear Scotland is making plans to open the Old Military Road selection course as a precaution from 20:00 on Friday till Tuesday morning.

Euan Scott, Bear Scotland’s north west consultant, stated: “The safety of road users is a top priority and we closely monitor conditions at the Rest and Be Thankful on a daily basis.

“While the elements has been extraordinarily dry and sunny in contemporary weeks, our determination to divert A83 visitors is in response to the incoming forecast for heavy rain, and our enjoy of earlier occasions the place landslides have befell right through the primary heavy rain after prolonged sessions of dry climate.”