Na Gruagaichean (Highland) weather

Headline:

Chance of rain in east this morning, showers this afternoon.

Today:

Showers or longer spells of rain may affect the east this morning, otherwise mainly dry in the west. Bright or sunny spells and scattered showers, briefly heavy, this afternoon. Maximum temperature 18 °C.

Tonight:

Any showers dying out this evening, otherwise dry with some late sunshine. Clouding over from the west in the early hours with some showery rain reaching the west later. Cool. Minimum temperature 7 °C.

Thursday:

Some bright spells across the east at times otherwise rather cloudy with scattered showers, perhaps some longer spells of rain across Skye and Lochaber. Maximum temperature 18 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Cloudy on Friday with rain, most persistent across the west but patchy across the east. Rain at times in the west on Saturday, drier in the east. Showers on Sunday.

Likely a fairly cool and showery start to the new week. Showers will tend to focus on northern and eastern areas of the UK, while parts of the south and west again become largely dry. Through the rest of the week any rain will tend to focus on the north or northwest of the country, with the south becoming predominantly dry. Temperatures are likely to remain close to, perhaps a little below average initially. However toward the following weekend there are signs that temperatures will begin to trend up, becoming warm or very warm once again, especially across southern parts of the UK, but perhaps more widely as we head toward the middle of July.

Changeable conditions with a predominantly northwest to southeast split in temperature and rainfall, and the potential for further occasional episodes of hot weather and thundery outbreaks, are considered likely to gradually give way to something more settled and dry overall through the second half of July. Temperatures are likely to be above average, with the greatest chance of very warm or hot spells in the south or southeast.