Lerwick (S. Screen) (Shetland Islands) weather

Headline:

Cloudy with patchy rain. Sunny spells later in Shetland.

This Evening and Tonight:

Some late sunny then clear spells across Orkney. Cloud and occasional light rain or drizzle across Shetland through the night which will edge southwards into Orkney towards dawn. Mainly light winds. Minimum temperature 5 °C.

Wednesday:

Mostly cloudy with occasional rain and drizzle slowly dying out through the morning, some brighter spells across Shetland in the afternoon. Freshening easterly breeze. Maximum temperature 11 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Dry but cloudy start Thursday but becoming brighter. Dry with sunny spells Friday but strengthening southeasterly breeze. Saturday looks mostly cloudy with rain at times, winds turning southerly and easing.

Starting off with something of a northwest to southeast split; higher pressure located towards the southeast should bring fine and increasingly warm conditions across at least southern UK, whilst there is a greater chance of periods of cloud, rain and stronger winds affecting the north. There will be fine weather here at times as well too however. There's a small chance that fine and very warm weather could extend right across the country early next week, but it's more likely that cloud/rain in the northwest will sink southeast introducing more changeable and cooler conditions for a time mid-week. It then becomes roughly equal chances that we see a resumption of mainly fine and dry conditions versus a continuation of more changeable weather with a mixture of rain and drier interludes.

Forecast confidence is lower than average for this range, although fairly typical for late Spring. A typical mixture of drier and settled periods, and periods of wetter and more unsettled conditions, is on balance slightly more likely than predominantly unsettled or predominantly settled. Temperatures are likely to be around average overall, with a slightly increased chance of warm or hot spells. Any such spells could be accompanied by locally heavy showers and thunderstorms.