Cumberland Stone (Highland) weather

Headline:

Cloudy with patchy rain on Friday.

This Evening and Tonight:

Cloudy this evening with outbreaks of rain. Then the rest of the night be remain cloudy with patchy rain, this mainly across Lochaber, Skye and Wester Ross. Minimum temperature 4 °C.

Friday:

A cloudy day with some patchy light rain, this mainly across the west. Rain will turn persistent across the Western Isles in the afternoon, spreading east after dark. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

A much brighter day on Saturday with scattered showers, these mainly across the north and west. Persistent rain developing on Sunday and lingering into Monday.

An erratic change from the mild and largely settled conditions of the past few days is expected. Rain, stronger winds and some snow already across Scotland may on Tuesday become more severe and start to push southwards through the middle part of next week, bringing a chance of snow to other parts of the UK, along with colder conditions more widely. A period of more settled weather then seems probable later next week, with a gradual recovery in temperatures to nearer average for the time of year, perhaps even mild. Beyond this, a fairly changeable picture is most likely although confidence in details is, as usual at this range, very low. Wettest/windiest weather in the north and west, whilst the south and east will probably remain more settled overall.

Confidence in this period is fairly low, but continuing from the previous period, there remains a chance of rather unsettled and cool conditions continuing at first, with the wettest conditions perhaps focussed more over the south (still with a risk of snow on the northern edge), with sleet and snow showers further north. Then, through the rest of January, something more climatological could return with the wettest and coolest conditions further north, and with higher pressure further south, it is more likely to be drier, and at times milder here than elsewhere.