High pressure building for the weekend
After what feels like weeks and indeed months of wind and rain, there is some good news on the horizon.
Read moreCloudy Saturday morning, slow to clear. The odd afternoon shower.
Cloudy start on Saturday with some coastal fog. Bright sunny spells developing through the afternoon with the odd shower possible over high ground of the Cairngorms and Easter Ross, heavy and thundery at times. A touch cooler than recent days. Maximum temperature 21 °C.
Any showers gradually die away through the evening. Low cloud or coastal fog pushes back in through the night with clear spells in southwest. The odd spot of drizzle northwest. Minimum temperature 8 °C.
Generally cooler and cloudier on Sunday, especially in the morning, but still mainly dry. Some brighter spells developing later and the odd thundery shower over high ground. Maximum temperature 18 °C.
Sunny spells and mainly dry on Monday, the odd shower. Sunny spells Tuesday and Wednesday, but showers more frequent and heavier.
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Most likely an unsettled start to the period with western showers and eastern rain, potentially heavy in the northeast, before a transient settled spell late in the week. Early in the bank holiday weekend a band of rain, heavy at times moves in from the west, becoming weaker as it moves east becoming more showery in nature with scattered showers also following. Into the new week increasingly settled conditions more likely for most, though rain may threaten north-western areas early on whilst some southern or eastern areas occasionally less settled with showers more likely later in the period though there will be some sunshine between times, the best of this in south-western parts. Temperatures are likely to be a little above average, but some large spatial differences are likely.
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There is nothing to suggest that conditions will be massively different to climatology at the end of the current month and though the first half of June. That said, both temperatures and rainfall are more-likely to be a little above average overall, with further rain or showers (possibly heavy/thundery at times) but also some spells of warm sunshine.
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