Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden No 2 (Edinburgh) weather

Headline:

Mostly dry with sunny spells. A few showers.

Today:

A dry day for many with some good sunny spells in the morning, especially in the west. Cloud will build by the afternoon with a few scattered showers breaking out. Showers mostly dying out at the end of the day. Maximum temperature 16 °C.

Tonight:

Any remaining showers soon die out to leave a dry evening and night. Some clear spells across Dumfries and Galloway. Cloudier further east. Minimum temperature 3 °C.

Thursday:

Largely dry. A dull morning in the east, brighter then sunny spells later in the day. Lengthy sunny spells in the west. Maximum temperature 16 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Dry in the east, but rain spreading into the west later Friday. Outbreaks of rain spread east on Saturday. Further rain for a time on Sunday, but drier.in the east.

Starting off with something of a northwest to southeast split; higher pressure located towards the southeast should bring fine and increasingly warm conditions across at least southern UK, whilst there is a greater chance of periods of cloud, rain and stronger winds affecting the north. There will be fine weather here at times as well too however. There's a small chance that fine and very warm weather could extend right across the country early next week, but it's more likely that cloud/rain in the northwest will sink southeast introducing more changeable and cooler conditions for a time mid-week. It then becomes roughly equal chances that we see a resumption of mainly fine and dry conditions versus a continuation of more changeable weather with a mixture of rain and drier interludes.

Forecast confidence is lower than average for this range, although fairly typical for late Spring. A typical mixture of drier and settled periods, and periods of wetter and more unsettled conditions, is on balance slightly more likely than predominantly unsettled or predominantly settled. Temperatures are likely to be around average overall, with a slightly increased chance of warm or hot spells. Any such spells could be accompanied by locally heavy showers and thunderstorms.