Midsummer may have just passed but now weathermen are predictingFROST.
Not content with day upon day of rain and mist, Mother Nature hasnow decided to give us the cold shoulder.
Weather experts say overnight temperatures could plunge to just 2Cin some parts of the North-east before the end of the week.
And we will be battered by near-gale force winds and even morerain.
The bad weather is expected after another weekend of miserableconditions that made us the wettest place in the country.
Temperatures have also plummeted to well below the season'saverage.
It's all in stark contrast to June last year when the month kickedof with a mini-heatwave in Deeside.
Then temperatures reached a sizzling 25C (77F) in Aboyne.
But it is all change this year with the Deeside town named thewettest place in Scotland.
More than an inch of rain drenched Aboyne in just 24 hours onSunday.
And Aberdeen was close behind with just under an inch batteringthe city in the same time period.
Met Office forecaster Robin Steel said: "The 30-year averagerainfall for Aberdeen for the whole of June is around 50 to 55mm.
"For this month up to yesterday there was already 70mm of rainrecorded so it's above normal for the time of year."
The region has enjoyed an average of 17C (62F) throughout Juneover the past 30 years.
But this week North-east folk will been wrapping up against theelements as the mercury hits frosty lows.
A Met Office spokesman said: "The temperatures are definitelygoing to get into single figures.
"Highs will not be reaching dizzy summer heights at around 16C(60F).
"And it could get down to 2C in sheltered places like Braemarwhere we may see some ground frost."
Strong winds are also on their way to add to the catalogue ofwinter-style weather.
Northerly gusts of up to 35mph are set to batter the regiontonight.
This year's deluge has rained off events like the Highland Gamesat Hazlehead Park.
During last year's heatwave rainfall was down to 42mm but in 2004a wet June saw 118mm fall.
The region's highest recorded rainfall since records started in1914 was in 1948 when the average was nearly trebled to 151mm.
But none of these years compared to the "Muckle Spate" during thesummer of 1829.
Most of the houses in Ballater were swamped by floodwater up tosix-feet deep.
The skies opened on August 4 and continued to lash down for 12hours. There was even a slight earthquake.
Every river and stream in the area burst its banks and the Bridgeat the Linn of Dee, normally 30ft above the water, was washed away.
At their worst, the flood waters reached 50ft, sweeping up into20ft waves.
Meanwhile, parts of Scotland were today on flood watch as heavydownpours threatened to break river banks.
Stretches of water in the North-east, like the Dee and Don, havebeen given the all clear.
But in Stirling, Fife, Falkirk and Lothian rivers are on theScottish Environment Protection Agency alert list.
lkernan@ajl.co.uk
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