Portree (Highland) weather

Headline:

A very wet night in West Highland.

This Evening and Tonight:

A cloudy evening and night with outbreaks of rain becoming heavy and persistent in the west, especially Skye Wester Ross and Lochaber with localised flooding possible. Minimum temperature 13 °C.

Monday:

Cloudy with occasional rain, more persistent and occasionally heavy in northwest Best of any drier and brighter spells in the east towards Inverness, where warmer. Quite windy. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

Cloudy on Tuesday with further rain at times. Wednesday and Thursday staying mostly cloudy in west with some patchy rain, while East Highland stays brighter and warmer

Northern and western parts may be unsettled at first with heavy rain or thundery showers, before high pressure becomes reestablished. This will continue to bring dry and very warm weather across England and Wales, but always with an ongoing chance of thunderstorms moving in from France. High pressure will likely amplify northwards to bring periods of drier and warmer weather to most of Scotland and Northern Ireland too. Winds will be light to moderate for most, but gusty around any thunderstorms. Temperatures by day will be widely very warm, hot or even very hot in parts of the south. There are signs for the heatwave to ease back to more normal summer temperatures through the next week commencing Monday 13 July.

High pressure is more likely than low pressure for the rest of July, probably bringing settled and drier conditions. Occasionally this dry and warm weather could be interrupted by outbreaks of rain and stronger winds, which will be more probable in the north or west. As is typical for the time of year, there is a risk of heavy, thundery showers during any warm spells. These conditions are likely to persist through to the start of August, with unsettled interruptions perhaps becoming more common, but confidence at this range is low. In any case, temperatures are likely to be above average overall, with a greater than normal chance of hot conditions developing at times, especially in the south.