Mallaig (Highland) weather

Headline:

Cloudy with rain, soon turning showery. Windy, coastal gales.

Today:

Cloudy with widespread and locally heavy rain at first clearing to sunny spells with frequent showers these heavy and thundery at times. Windy with coastal gales. Maximum temperature 14 °C.

Tonight:

The night will continue cloudy with clear spells and scattered showers these mainly over western parts. Windy with coastal gales. Minimum temperature 6 °C.

Monday:

Continuing frequent showers, some heavy. Windy with coastal gales beginning to ease down towards the evening. Maximum temperature 13 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

Windy with showers at first Tuesday, soon becoming drier with light winds. Scattered showers return by early Wednesday before turning drier and brighter Thursday.

Likely continuing changeable with further frontal systems running east into the UK bringing further spells of rain, with showery interludes in-between. Strong winds may also develop at times, particularly in the north and northwest. With time the signs are that systems will increasingly track to the northwest of the country, with the south starting to see longer, drier interludes while the northwest continues to see more in the way of rain and at times strong winds, Temperatures are expected to be slightly above average overall, but will be cooler in any prolonged periods of rainfall. Meanwhile there is the possibility of some very warm, perhaps hot conditions developing, especially in the south and these bring with them the chance of thunderstorms.

Changeable weather across the UK with a mixture of Atlantic weather systems moving in from the west interspersed with dry and sunny periods. Wetter conditions tending to be across the northwest of the UK, with the south and southeast likely to see more in the way of dry weather, Temperatures are most likely to be near normal or slightly above in the north and west, perhaps with some hot spells at times, especially across the south.