Sgor Gaoith (Highland) weather

Headline:

Dry, settled weather continuing, feeling warm Monday.

Today:

A cloudy start in the east, but a bright and sunny start to the week for the west coast. Sunny conditions all day in the west but cloud tending to linger near the east coasts. Light winds. Maximum temperature 25 °C.

Tonight:

Cloudy in the east during the evening, the cloud will slowly spread west overnight. A fine and dry evening in the west but cloudier overnight with patchy drizzle in places. Minimum temperature 13 °C.

Tuesday:

Cloudier on Tuesday with some light rain or drizzle spreading south during the afternoon, feeling a little fresher towards the evening but brighter spells likely. Maximum temperature 20 °C.

Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

A little fresher towards the end of the week with gentle northerly winds, bright or sunny spells but a few showers affecting the north coasts.

High pressure is likely to be the dominant feature at first bringing widely fine and dry weather whilst a generally northerly flow leads to rather cool conditions. This will be increasingly eroded from the west as frontal systems start to move in from the Atlantic through the weekend, leading to more changeable conditions. Whilst this is happening a deep area of low pressure is likely to develop in the North Atlantic, linked to Hurricane Erin. This likely progresses towards the UK through the early part of the week. The changeable period will likely continue through the last week of August, especially in the north and west, with a small chance of widely wetter and windier weather developing. The evolution of this is highly uncertain though.

Confidence in the details through this period is low. However, low pressure and therefore unsettled or changeable weather looks more likely. There will be the potential for periods of stronger winds at times as well. Whether this takes the form of further low pressure systems running in from the Atlantic, or a more slowly evolving weather pattern with the potential for heavy showers is less clear. Temperatures are likely to be near to, or slightly above average overall.