Scrabster (Highland) weather

Headline:

Mainly cloudy with occasional rain today.

Today:

A cloudy day with some occasional rain, mainly across the west. Some brightness may break through along the Moray coast. Misty low cloud along the west coast. Warm in the east. Maximum temperature 17 °C.

Tonight:

Mainly dry this evening, a few showers at first. Rain, occasionally heavy, will spread northeast overnight. Drier in the south and west later with a few showers. Windy later. Minimum temperature 8 °C.

Sunday:

A cooler and fresher day with scattered showers, heavy at times. Longer spells of rain at first easing through the morning. Rather windy with fresh to strong northwesterly winds. Maximum temperature 14 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Cool and breezy with scattered showers on Monday. Mainly dry with fewer showers on Tuesday, rain spreading northeast later. Showers at first on Wednesday, then drier later.

Likely continuing changeable with further frontal systems running east into the UK bringing further spells of rain, with showery interludes in-between. Strong winds may also develop at times, particularly in the north and northwest. With time the signs are that systems will increasingly track to the northwest of the country, with the south starting to see longer, drier interludes while the northwest continues to see more in the way of rain and at times strong winds, Temperatures are expected to be slightly above average overall, but will be cooler in any prolonged periods of rainfall. Meanwhile there is the possibility of some very warm, perhaps hot conditions developing, especially in the south and these bring with them the chance of thunderstorms.

Changeable weather across the UK with a mixture of Atlantic weather systems moving in from the west interspersed with dry and sunny periods. Wetter conditions tending to be across the northwest of the UK, with the south and southeast likely to see more in the way of dry weather, Temperatures are most likely to be near normal or slightly above in the north and west, perhaps with some hot spells at times, especially across the south.