Ballantrae Bay (South Ayrshire) weather

Headline:

Dry with sunny spells.

Today:

All parts will have a dry and cold day with some long spells of sunshine in the morning, sunshine turning hazier through the afternoon. Light winds. Maximum temperature 5 °C.

Tonight:

It will stay dry through the evening and overnight. A widespread frost forming, locally severe. Strengthening southeasterly winds, especially around the coast. Minimum temperature -2 °C.

Wednesday:

It will be dry and cold with bright spells but likely cloudier than Tuesday. Strong southeasterly winds around the coast. Another frost forming overnight. Maximum temperature 5 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Dry and cold Thursday with bright spells, rain and hill snow later. Milder on Friday with rain spreading east at first, showers later. Further showers or spells of rain Saturday.

Quite changeable as Atlantic frontal systems track near or across the UK at times, bringing spells of rain, heaviest and most prolonged over high ground in the west and/or northwest, with comparatively small accumulations in more sheltered eastern and southeastern areas. It will often be quite breezy or windy, the strongest winds typically in the west or northwest. With a west or southwesterly flow tending to dominate, temperatures will likely be near or above average much of the time, especially over this weekend with some very mild conditions expected before a gradual downward trend through the final week of February back closer to average.

This period may start of predominantly settled, with high pressure close by to the UK. However the orientation of any anticyclone and its location relative to the UK is much more uncertain, which has knock-on effects on the type of weather we can expect. Towards mid March, there are indications that more generally changeable conditions of Atlantic origin may develop once more, with a return to spells of wind and rain at times.