Scrabster (Highland) weather

Headline:

Bright spells and scattered showers Wednesday. Rain later.

This Evening and Tonight:

Clear spells and scattered showers, mainly affecting western areas. Generally drier further east for Inverness and Nairn. A frost developing in sheltered glens, but milder and breezy around western coasts. Minimum temperature -1 °C.

Wednesday:

Patchy rain around western coasts in the morning, otherwise a largely dry and bright start. Turning widely cloudier through the day with outbreaks of rain spreading east later. Freshening winds. Maximum temperature 6 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Spells of rain and hill snow early Thursday, clearing to bright spells and showers. Mainly dry with sunny spells on Friday and Saturday, the odd shower possible.

Slow evolving weather patterns in the vicinity of the UK are most favoured through this period, with low pressure often to the west or southwest and high pressure near or over Scandinavia. Areas of rain or showers will attempt to push into some western and southwestern parts of the UK in particular, but possibly making limited eastwards progress. Longer, drier interludes are most likely in the east and northeast, though potentially rather cloudy at times. A gradual trend towards colder conditions is most likely through this period, especially in the south and east. As such, whilst wintry precipitation will be more reserved for hills initially, this may become more likely to lower levels later in the period.

Changeable conditions are most likely to continue through this period. This means an ongoing likelihood of further spells of rain and windy conditions at times, these perhaps most prevalent in the west, but also there should also be some interludes of drier weather too, these perhaps more likely in the east. Temperatures probably remaining close to average overall, but there is the possibility of colder conditions and associated winter hazards at times, due to higher pressure extending from the north or east. Late in the period, there is currently a hint that a north-south or northwest-southeast split develops, with wetter weather becoming more confined towards the north or northwest and drier conditions developing further south or southeast.