Tarland (Aberdeenshire) weather

Headline:

Mainly dry today with a few bright spells.

Today:

Chance of a light shower in the north and east this morning. Otherwise it will be a dry day with variable amounts of cloud and some bright spells. Maximum temperature 6 °C.

Tonight:

This evening will be dry. Then the rest of the night will be dry with variable amounts of cloud. A frost developing under lengthy cloud breaks, especially in the west. Minimum temperature -2 °C.

Tuesday:

All parts will have a dry day with some bright or sunny spells, rather cloudy at times across the north and east. Cold Maximum temperature 4 °C.

Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

Mainly dry on Wednesday, freshening westerly winds will bring showery rain later. Bitterly cold northwesterly winds will bring snow showers on Thursday and Friday, most frequent in the north.

Cold northerly winds, initially across Scotland are now expected to become dominant across the whole UK in the first week of January. These will bring wintry showers (often of snow) to many coastlines (and areas just inland of these) that are exposed to onshore winds. Subtle day-to-day changes in wind direction from northeast to northwest will change the places most exposed to the showers, but many inland locations across central and southern areas will remain mostly dry but cold. There are likely to be some more coherent bands of rain, sleet and snow working south, and these may bring a risk of more prolonged wintry precipitation affecting some inland areas. Towards the second half of this period, slightly milder conditions will attempt to move in from the west.

Whilst confidence in details is low, by the start of this period the transition back to westerly winds bringing Atlantic weather systems into the UK is expected to be complete, with temperatures most likely recovering to around average. There is perhaps a weak signal for slowly evolving weather patterns to be more favoured than normal, such patterns increase the chances of frost and fog above normal by night.