Kirkwall Airport (Orkney Islands) weather

Headline:

Cloudy with showers this afternoon.

Today:

Starting off dry this morning before thickening cloud brings a few showers from the west. Mostly cloudy with a few showers, briefly heavy, this afternoon. Maximum temperature 15 °C.

Tonight:

This evening will see a few showers. Becoming mainly dry in the early hours but remaining cloudy across Shetland, clear periods across Orkney. A little rain possible across Orkney later. Minimum temperature 10 °C.

Friday:

Persistent rain extending east across Orkney in the morning, then across Shetland during the afternoon. Freshening southerly winds. Maximum temperature 12 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Cloudy with rain or drizzle at times on Saturday and Sunday. Brighter and mainly dry on Monday but with brisk northwesterly winds.

Likely a fairly cool and showery start to the new week. Showers will tend to focus on northern and eastern areas of the UK, while parts of the south and west again become largely dry. Through the rest of the week any rain will tend to focus on the north or northwest of the country, with the south becoming predominantly dry. Temperatures are likely to remain close to, perhaps a little below average initially. However toward the following weekend there are signs that temperatures will begin to trend up, becoming warm or very warm once again, especially across southern parts of the UK, but perhaps more widely as we head toward the middle of July.

Changeable conditions with a predominantly northwest to southeast split in temperature and rainfall, and the potential for further occasional episodes of hot weather and thundery outbreaks, are considered likely to gradually give way to something more settled and dry overall through the second half of July. Temperatures are likely to be above average, with the greatest chance of very warm or hot spells in the south or southeast.