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Perth Bus Shelter Briefly Turns Into Sauna During Sunshine; Queue Asks for Eucalyptus
Glass shelter on Dunkeld Road reaches '19 degrees, which is basically Finland'.
A Perth bus shelter, briefly the warmest place in Scotland. Photo: Ulrich Lange, Bochum, Germany, “Bus Shelter and Toilets, Auckland”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
PERTH — A glass bus shelter on Dunkeld Road reached an estimated 19°C during Thursday’s bright spells, prompting waiting passengers to remove scarves, loosen collars and, in one case, request a cold plunge.
“It was lovely,” said a woman from Letham. “Like a spa. With a timetable.” When the bus arrived, nobody wanted to get on.
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