Edinburgh Haymarket (Edinburgh) weather

Headline:

Turning cloudier Tuesday afternoon with strengthening SE winds.

Today:

A dry and mostly cloudy morning but some bright or sunny intervals breaking through. Cloud thickening in the afternoon with the odd spot of rain possible. Brisk southeasterly winds will be strong at times with coastal gales possible in west. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Tonight:

Mostly dry and cloudy evening, but a band of heavy rain reaches western coasts around midnight, spreading east overnight. Strong southeasterly winds bring coastal gales or severe gales in west. Minimum temperature 12 °C.

Wednesday:

Cloudy with heavy rain spreading eastwards and clearing through the morning. This leaves a largely dry afternoon with long sunny spells developing. Strong winds generally easing through the day. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Mostly dry with sunny spells Thursday, cloudier with rain spreading east in the evening. Mostly cloudy Friday with rain or showers. Largely dry with sunny spells Saturday. Breezy at times.

High pressure will likely be in place over southern UK through the first few days of this period. This means plenty of dry weather to be had here, albeit with some chilly nights and overnight and morning fog in places. In the north, a rather more changeable pattern will continue, with occasional rain and windy conditions at times. Broadly changeable weather patterns look to continue through to mid-month, with ridges of high pressure extending from the southwest, interspersed by Atlantic frontal systems. These could be associated with quite deep and fast-moving depressions, bringing the potential for windy weather more widely, but perhaps more likely in the north and east. Temperatures probably near or slightly above normal overall, but with some day to day oscillations.

Quite an uncertain period of weather, with earlier signals of reliably wetter than normal weather now looking less likely. That being said, the middle of the month could be a quite a changeable period of weather overall, with the wettest weather most likely towards parts of the west and possibly south. It is quite plausible that marked regional variation in rainfall amounts will occur. Temperatures are likely to remain broadly above average overall.