Papa Westray Youth Hostel (Orkney Islands) weather

Headline:

Cloudy with some rain today, Orkney drier this afternoon.

Today:

A dry start across Shetland otherwise cloudy this morning with some rain or drizzle. This afternoon will be dull with misty low cloud and some rain or drizzle across Shetland, but drier spells developing across Orkney. Maximum temperature 11 °C.

Tonight:

Mainly dry and cloudy overnight with just the odd shower. Outbreaks of rain, occasionally heavy, will spread to Orkney later in the night. Misty low cloud. Minimum temperature 9 °C.

Sunday:

A cloudy morning with rain, occasionally heavy at first. Becoming drier and somewhat brighter across Orkney in the afternoon, but outbreaks of rain lingering across Shetland. Maximum temperature 1 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Quite windy on Monday with rain across Shetland, drier for Orkney. Mainly dry and less windy with the odd shower on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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.