Scrabster (Highland) weather

Headline:

Showery and seasonally cool. Periods of rain, gales in north.

Today:

Windy and showery day with gales in the north. Showers frequent and occasionally heavy, also merging to longer periods of rain at times north of the Black Isle. Best of limited shelter around the southern end of the Great Glen. Maximum temperature 13 °C.

Tonight:

The strong north to northwest winds will continue to drive frequent showers across the area, with heaviest outbreaks likely across the north and far west. Minimum temperature 3 °C.

Wednesday:

Another cool, windy, showery day, but winds lighter than Tuesday. Showers quite frequent, occasionally heavy, with southern end of Great Glen again seeing the best of the limited shelter. Maximum temperature 13 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Showery north to northwest flow gradually easing through Thursday. Dry, bright, cold start to Friday, then rain spreading from west by evening that lingers for much of Saturday.

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.