Ben Rinnes (Moray) weather

Headline:

Mostly cloudy with showers on Sunday, drier in north.

This Evening and Tonight:

Moray and western Aberdeenshire mostly dry with clear spells. Cloudier across eastern Aberdeenshire with a few scattered showers for the evening, merging into longer spells of light rain overnight. Minimum temperature 3 °C.

Sunday:

Southeast winds keeping rather cloudy skies across the area, with showers or longer periods of light to moderate rain focused over the east and south. Best of shelter in Moray. Maximum temperature 10 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Monday and Tuesday cloudy with occasional light to moderate rain focused over eastern areas. Wednesday mostly dry with west seeing good sunny spells.

Continued mostly settled conditions expected, as high pressure builds to the north of the UK. This will bring a strengthening easterly then northeasterly wind over the period, with wind-chill making it feel colder. Whilst there will be a fair amount of dry weather, a few showers will still be possible, particularly across eastern and southern parts which may be wintry in places, more especially over high ground. High pressure will likely dominate the weather in the run up to the New Year, slowly drifting to the west. This will maintain largely settled conditions, although with an increasing chance of showery conditions later in the period. Temperatures will be below average much of the time, with frost likely where clear skies and light winds prevail.

High pressure will probably be close to the UK at the start of this period, perhaps most likely centered to the west, and whilst this may allow relatively settled and dry conditions with a risk of frost and fog initially, there will be the chance of some occasional wet weather at times, perhaps more especially in the north and east. Given some relatively cold air close to the UK, this may bring the chance of some wintry hazards in places. Towards mid-month, there is the potential for rather more changeable conditions to develop more widely, although confidence in this aspect of the forecast is currently low.