Edinburgh (Edinburgh) weather

Headline:

Cloudy. Brighten up in east with some warm sunshine.

Today:

A largely cloudy start with patchy light rain and drizzle across Dumfries and Galloway with extensive hill fog. Brightening up through the Lothians and Borders, a few sunny spells for East Lothian and Berwickshire. Maximum temperature 23 °C.

Tonight:

It will stay mainly dry with the best of the cloud breaks through the Lothians and Borders, clear skies at times. Thicker cloud and a little drizzle over western hills. Minimum temperature 13 °C.

Thursday:

Bright with occasional sunny spells, any mist and fog over the Southern Uplands soon clearing. Isolated afternoon showers and feeling very warm in any sunshine. Maximum temperature 25 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Mainly dry and becoming very warm or hot with plenty of sunshine. The coasts fresher at times with perhaps some mist at first around the Solway Firth.

The heatwave from the weekend will be gradually eroded from the west early next week as a cold front arrives from the Atlantic. This will bring the chance of some heavy rain or showers, perhaps thundery, especially in northern and western areas. Towards and beyond midweek, a rather changeable pattern is anticipated with some rain or showers possible at times, which could be heavy and thundery, and particularly focussed in western and northwestern areas. Longer drier spells are most likely towards the south and east, although even here some showers may be possible at times. Temperatures are likely to remain above average, especially in the south and east where further spells of very warm or hot weather remain possible.

A continuation of the broad themes from earlier in the month at first, with high pressure probably dominating the south and lower pressure more favoured to affect the north and northwest. Temperatures are likely to end up above average overall with a continued, and perhaps higher than normal, chance of occasional hot spells or heatwaves, especially further to the southeast. However, around the turn of the month, there is a signal for perhaps more widely unsettled weather to develop, though the details of this remain rather uncertain.