St Catherine's Bay (Orkney Islands) weather

Headline:

Gales and blustery showers on Tuesday.

This Evening and Tonight:

Cloudy with outbreaks of rain this evening, the rain soon turning showery. Clear spells overnight with occasional blustery showers. Strong to gale force southerly winds veering southwesterly later.. Minimum temperature 5 °C.

Tuesday:

A mix of some bright and sunny spells interspersed with blustery showers, which may be heavy at times. Gale force west to southwesterly winds, easing later. Maximum temperature 9 °C.

Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

Showers Wednesday turning increasingly wintry, strong to gale northwesterly winds. Wintry showers Thursday before becoming dry and bright, winds easing. Sunshine and showers on Friday.

A broadly changeable pattern will continue, at least through the first part of this period, as further frontal systems move across the UK, bringing rain and stronger winds at times. Weather fronts are likely to be more active across northern areas, thus the wettest and windiest conditions are more likely here. As they come south, often running in to a ridge of higher pressure extending from the southwest, frontal systems will often be weaker and rainfall amounts smaller. In this setup, temperatures will probably pan out close to average overall, with some overnight frost where skies are clear and winds light.

High pressure may be more dominant at the start of this period, the centre of which transferring from somewhere west or southwest of the UK to somewhere north of the UK. As such, plenty of dry weather seems most likely, but with changes in wind direction leading to some quite marked differences in cloud amounts and temperature from day to day. Moving further into April, there is a chance that high pressure will become less dominant and thus there is a greater chance of more places seeing some rain and possible stronger winds from time to time. Overall, temperatures panning out somewhere near to average.