Dalbeattie (Dumfries and Galloway) weather

Headline:

Rain, wind clearing Wednesday morning, bright spells and showers follow.

Today:

Early rain clearing then a bright day with sunny spells. Mainly dry, just a few showers across Galloway in the afternoon. Becoming colder with fresh westerly winds, strong at first. Maximum temperature 9 °C.

Tonight:

A largely dry evening and night. Cloud increasing from the south for a few hours early in the night. Lengthy clear spells in the early hours. Minimum temperature -1 °C.

Thursday:

A dry day with plenty of sunshine, but it will feel notably colder than of late in the fresh northwest winds. Maximum temperature 4 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Rain Friday morning, then dry and sunny. Very windy with spells of rain Saturday and Sunday, a risk of gales. Winds gradually easing Sunday.

Likely starting off very unsettled, with blustery showers, a mix of rain, sleet, some hill snow and soft hail being driven in by a strong to gale force northwesterly wind. Southeastern areas most sheltered from these but widely feeling very cold. Gradually turning more settled through the following week, with cloud, stronger winds and outbreaks of rain increasingly becoming confined to northwest Scotland, as an area of high pressure becomes established across at least the south of the UK. It may even become settled here too, but confidence in the north/south boundary between settled and unsettled gets steadily lower through the period. Becoming widely mild, perhaps exceptionally so in some places, although clearer spells overnight may lead to localised frost and fog.

Often settled across southern areas, with fairly dry, mild, but cloudy conditions dominating overall. More unsettled further north, with majority of periods of rain, and stronger winds, affecting this region, especially northwest Scotland. Whilst colder, brighter, and potentially wintry spells cannot be ruled out, particularly early in the period, overall temperatures have a greater than normal chance of being above average.