{"id":45756,"date":"2026-06-23T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/45756\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:37:12","slug":"glasgow-to-be-hotter-than-tokyo-as-mini-heat-wave-set-to-break-june-records-in-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/45756\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow to be hotter than Tokyo as mini heat wave set to break June records in days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Glasgow is braced for sweltering conditions this week, with forecasters warning temperatures in the city could climb into the low 30s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Warm, humid air moving into Scotland is expected to push the mercury above 25C for several days, putting Glasgow and the wider Central Belt into official heatwave territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.metoffice.gov.uk\/forecast\/gcuvz3bch?ref=ed_direct#?date=2026-06-23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Forecasters;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Forecasters&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Forecasters<\/a> say parts of the south and the Central Belt , including Glasgow, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, could even be hotter than T<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.metoffice.gov.uk\/forecast\/xn76urzn2?ref=ed_direct#?date=2026-06-23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:okyo in Japan.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;okyo in Japan.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">okyo in Japan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Image: Robert Perry)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read more<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">STV meteorologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/sean-batty\/?ref=ed_direct\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Sean Batty;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sean Batty&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sean Batty<\/a> said: \u201cWhile temperatures in the 30s can occur in Scotland during June, they\u2019re still relatively rare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIn fact, the 30\u00b0C mark has only been exceeded on a handful of days over the last century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added: \u201cAs for Scotland\u2019s all-time June record, it could be close. More likely, however, is that a number of towns and villages will set new local June records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The roasting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25174419.latest-news-updates-glasgows-weather\/?ref=au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:weather;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;weather&quot;}\" class=\"link \">weather<\/a> is forecast to hold until Friday, with warm nights also expected to keep temperatures high after dark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Batty warned: \u201cThe air moving into the UK is not only hot but also humid, which means temperatures won\u2019t fall very much overnight \u2013 quite a contrast to the frosts some areas experienced at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe warmest night is expected to be Thursday into Friday, when temperatures could remain close to 20\u00b0C throughout the night in parts of Glasgow, Ayrshire, Moray and even the northern Highlands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow is braced for sweltering conditions this week, with forecasters warning temperatures in the city could climb into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32069,32067,32072,8,32068,29456,32071,32070,52],"class_list":["post-45756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-central-belt","tag-glasgow","tag-humid-air","tag-japan","tag-robert-perry","tag-scotland","tag-sean-batty","tag-temperatures","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}