Stow (Scottish Borders) weather

Headline:

Mainly dry with bright spells Wednesday, becoming windy over coasts.

Today:

Rather cold with a frost in places through the morning. A generally cloudy, but bright day with some sunny spells and mainly dry but patchy rain towards the west coast. Southeasterly winds freshening, becoming strong over coasts, especially in southwest. Maximum temperature 4 °C.

Tonight:

Some rain over the west coast and later across Dumfries and Galloway. Otherwise generally dry and cloudy but a few clear spells, with a frost in places as winds ease. Minimum temperature -2 °C.

Thursday:

Patchy rain in west at first, otherwise mostly dry with bright or sunny spells breaking through. Cloudier later as winds turn southwest with rain crossing from the west overnight. Maximum temperature 5 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Milder and windy on Friday with further rain pushing in from west. Mostly cloudy with rain at times Saturday but less windy. Heavy rain overnight, then windy with showers Sunday.

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.

Confidence is rather low through this period with regards to the weather patterns affecting the UK. The most likely outcome is a continuation of rather changeable conditions, with low pressure systems tending to pass close to or to the northwest of the UK, bringing occasional spells of wet and windy weather, especially in the north west. High pressure to the south may build across the UK at times to bring some drier, quieter interludes, this probably most frequent in the south and east. Temperatures are likely to be near or slightly above average for the period as a whole, though some relatively short-lived interludes of colder conditions remain possible.