Craig Bothy (Highland) weather

Headline:

Very windy. Mainly dry morning, frequent, heavy showers later.

Today:

Early rain will soon clear to bright spells and the odd shower. Showers become frequent and heavy later. Southerly gales increase to storm force later. Maximum temperature 11 °C.

Tonight:

Frequent and occasionally heavy showers ease for a time towards morning. Storm force southerly winds will ease somewhat and turn southwest overnight. Minimum temperature 2 °C.

Monday:

Showers become frequent and heavy again, wintry over the hills, as the wind turns gale to severe gale northwesterly. Maximum temperature 11 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

The northerly wind will ease and the wintry showers clear during Tuesday. This will leave Wednesday and Thursday mainly dry with bright spells and light winds.

Probably a quieter interlude to start this period for much of the UK as high pressure builds across the north with a return of night frosts. The high is likely to migrate eastwards during the second half of next week, potentially allowing some outbreaks of rain to move into some some western and northwestern areas along with some stronger winds, these probably edging into other parts of the UK by next weekend, although the east and southeast may hang on to drier conditions throughout. Into December, and while signals are mixed it looks most likely that high pressure may re-assert itself close to or over the UK, with temperatures generally near average, but some overnight frost is likely, and rather cold by day where any fog persists.

The start of this period looks like being largely settled, with high pressure close to if not over the UK. However as we move further into December there are signs that it will become less settled with west or northwesterly types preferred, These will bring some wetter and windier interludes with a risk of some snow, especially for hills in the north. These conditions look more likely to dominate towards the middle of December. Temperatures generally close to average through the period.