Foula Airstrip (Shetland Islands) weather

Headline:

Sunny spells and scattered showers on Monday, breezy at first.

This Evening and Tonight:

Rather cloudy in Shetland this evening and overnight, with scattered showers. Orkney will see a mixture of clear spells and scattered showers. Fresh to strong northwest winds. Minimum temperature 9 °C.

Monday:

A bright and breezy day with sunny intervals and a scattering of showers, becoming lighter and more isolated later in the day. Winds easing later. Maximum temperature 14 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

A breezy period with variable amounts of cloud and sunny spells. Dry on Tuesday, a few showery outbreaks of rain on Wednesday and Thursday.

Something of a north to south split to start the period. Some rain or showers are likely in the north whilst it will be predominantly dry, sunny and hot in the south. The heat in the south will likely ease into next weekend but probably remain a little above average. Further into August, there are signs that low pressure systems with spells or rain or thundery interludes will interrupt the more settled conditions at times, but rainfall amounts will probably be variable, with some areas continuing to see relatively little. Temperatures are likely to remain above average, with a chance of occasional returns of the hot conditions seen earlier in the period.

The broad theme of high pressure remaining in place at least close to the UK seems most probable, but with occasional more unsettled or changeable interludes. These interludes will either be the result of Atlantic frontal systems moving east or thundery plumes possibly drifting north from the continent. The broadly settled conditions mean that rainfall amounts overall are more likely to be below normal than above. Temperatures will probably be above average and some spells of hot weather and heatwaves are possible, especially in the south.