Askival (Highland) weather

Headline:

Mostly dry and rather cloudy. A few showers.

Today:

A largely dry day. Some sunny spells over Lochaber in the morning, but generally rather cloudy. A few scattered showers breaking out in the afternoon, these heaviest over northern Sutherland. Showers dying out at the end of the day. Maximum temperature 15 °C.

Tonight:

Any remaining showers soon die out to leave a dry evening and night. Lengthy clear spells towards the west coast. Cloudier further east. Minimum temperature 4 °C.

Thursday:

A dry day. Lengthy spells of sunshine towards the west coast. Cloudier at times further east, although cloud largely breaking up towards the end of the day. Maximum temperature 16 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

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

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.