Kildonan (North Ayrshire) weather

Headline:

Autumn temperatures return. Mainly dry, occasionally bright morning, rain later.

Today:

Afternoon highs well down from yesterday, even below the seasonal early autumn averages. Occasional bright spells on a mainly dry morning. Cloud thickening through afternoon, bringing patchy rain to all but Lanarkshire by early evening. Maximum temperature 16 °C.

Tonight:

Overcast with periods of rain with outbreaks heavy at times, particularly across Argyll and around west coasts. Winds increasing strong, perhaps touching gale around the coasts and Isles by dawn. Minimum temperature 7 °C.

Tuesday:

Cool, windy day with mix of brighter spells and showers. Outbreaks quite frequent, occasionally heavy over Argyll and around west coast, with best of Shelter and Lanarkshire and Central Belt. Maximum temperature 15 °C.

Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

Wednesday cool and windy with showers focused in north and west. Winds easing and mainly dry for Thursday. Rain later Friday.

It will likely be quite cloudy with outbreaks of rain and potentially strong winds across northwestern areas on Saturday, while somewhat drier and brighter in more southern and eastern parts. By Sunday this wetter zone of weather is likely to sink further south into more central parts, with showers following into the northwest. Confidence is low for early next week, but the chance of some rain or showers in places, more especially in the west and northwest, before a trend towards higher pressure building in the vicinity of the UK from midweek onwards, leading to a more blocked pattern thereafter. After a chilly start to the weekend, temperatures will return to near-normal for mid-September, possibly above-average in places from later next week.

The recent spell of more blocked weather patterns may ease at the beginning of this period, with a gradual revert back to a more mobile west or southwesterly type most likely, with low pressure often centred to the northwest of the UK and high pressure over the nearby continent. This would bring spells of wet and sometimes windy conditions, most frequently in the northwest, with longer drier periods towards the south and east. Temperatures will typically be near normal, perhaps a little below at times in the northwest especially, with the chance of some occasional warmer conditions in the south and east.