Gairloch (Highland) weather

Headline:

Cloudy. Patchy drizzle west. Dry east. Heavy rain later Friday.

This Evening and Tonight:

Staying cloudy with outbreaks of drizzle in the west. Drier but still quite cloudy towards Inverness and Nairn, though some clearer spells may develop overnight. Minimum temperature 7 °C.

Friday:

Cloudy again throughout the day. Mainly dry in the east but patchy drizzle in the west. Spell of heavy rain through the afternoon and evening with strong westerly winds. Maximum temperature 12 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Brighter and turning colder over the weekend with blustery showers, wintry on high ground at first, likely to lower levels on Monday. Strong west then northerly winds.

Cold or very cold conditions are likely to affect most if not all parts of the UK early in this period, with wintry showers affecting in particular northern parts and exposed coastal districts. Overnight frost will likely be widespread and occasionally strong winds will result in significant wind chill. However, there may be more organised areas of rain and snow, accompanied by strong winds, which run across some parts. This could lead to some disruptive weather at times, especially at the start of this period. Briefly milder conditions may accompany these in the south. There is a hint that it may become less cold late in the period, but still likely remain mostly unsettled with further spells of rain and snow.

Signals vary in prevailing weather patterns through this period. In general, there looks like a trend towards drier and more settled conditions, with high pressure potentially being the more dominant influence over the UK. However. there is a chance of more changeable weather patterns at times, which would see Atlantic weather systems periodically move across the country. These will bring some wetter and windier interludes with a risk of some snow, especially for hills in the north. Temperatures trending closer to average, especially in the south.