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, rain in the afternoon. Cold.
A dry overcast morning, some early brightness across Shetland. Patchy light rain spreads east across Orkney through the afternoon, turning more persistent for a time. Dry but increasingly overcast across Shetland. Cold. Maximum temperature 7 °C.
Cloud with patchy light rain or drizzle persisting over Orkney throughout the evening and overnight, spreading to Shetland through the evening, becoming more persistent in the early hours. Minimum temperature 3 °C.
It will remain dull and cloudy with outbreaks of patchy light rain or drizzle throughout Sunday. Feeling cold under persistent low cloud. Maximum temperature 8 °C.
Cloudy with patchy light rain or drizzle remaining Monday morning. Becoming drier and brighter with sunny spells from Monday afternoon continuing to Wednesday. Perhaps a few light showers Wednesday.
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High pressure will likely be retreating to the northwest of the UK at the start of this period, with conditions turning generally more unsettled than the previous few days as low pressure becomes more dominant. Wet weather is perhaps more likely to develop in parts of the south and east, with western and especially northern areas hanging on to the best of any drier interludes, though all parts are may some rain at times. Onshore winds along eastern coasts will likely make it feel rather cold at times, though for all parts temperatures will often be a little below average. Into early May, something of a north-south split looks possible, with relatively drier conditions further to the north and the greatest chance of rain further to the south.
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In this period, the chances of unsettled weather are slightly less than usual in the north and about the same as usual further south. Therefore, some spells of wetter weather are likely for all, but perhaps especially southern areas at first with the driest conditions probably further north. Temperatures will probably near or a little below average at first, but likely to recover to around or a little above average as the period progresses. Also worth noting that average temperatures themselves rise by around 1C per week at this time of year.
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