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A provisional UK January record has been set after a temperature of 19.6C was hit in north-west Scotland - but the weather is due to take another turn next week
A new provisional record for the highest maximum temperature on a January day in the UK has been recorded in northern Scotland, according to the Met Office. Elsewhere in the Highlands, a wildfire has broken out and stretches over a mile.
The Saharan dust is set to fall in showers from tomorrow - less than a fortnight after Britain was hit by an Arctic blast followed by severe stormy weather.
An unseasonal 19.6C is recorded at Kinlochewe, according to provisional figures from the Met Office.
Kinlochewe has broken the UK record for the highest-ever January temperature. The Met Office tell us the impact of the foehn effect.