Hoy Sound (Orkney Islands) weather

Headline:

Dry but mostly cloudy on Sunday.

This Evening and Tonight:

Staying dry with clear spells increasing through the evening and night across Orkney, to a lesser extent Shetland. Light southerly breezes, allowing a rural patchy frost to form in Orkney come dawn. Minimum temperature 2 °C.

Sunday:

Shetland cloudy but dry. Orkney seeing occasional bright spells for the morning, then cloud increasing for the afternoon. Chance of some patchy rain over Shetland in evening. Winds fresh southerly. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Monday mainly dry after early light rain for Shetland, the odd shower later. Tuesday and Wednesday mainly cloudy with showers or perhaps longer spells of rain at times.

A transition to a rather more changeable and at times unsettled weather pattern is likely to occur during the first few days of this period. Outbreaks of rain and freshening winds will probably make inroads from the southwest during Thursday ahead of conditions more widely becoming wetter and windier by the weekend. A return to periods of rain followed by showers, often accompanied by strong winds looks likely for the rest of the month, with the potential for weather warnings or even a named storm at some point before the month is out. Temperatures at least should recover in most places, ending up near average or even a little above, though admittedly not feeling like it at times.

The start of February is likely to continue on an unsettled and relatively mild theme, with periods of rain, showers and strong winds, alternating in most parts with short-lived brighter and cooler interludes. Pressure may build across southern areas towards mid-month, which would result in longer drier and more-settled spells here, albeit with an increased chance of overnight fog and frost.