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 moreAutumn temperatures return. Mainly dry, occasionally bright morning, rain later.
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday cool and windy with showers focused in north and west. Winds easing and mainly dry for Thursday. Rain later Friday.
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Many areas will be dry at first under a ridge of high pressure, although an increasing chance of cloud, rain and strengthening winds in at least northwestern areas by and during the weekend, with the best of any lengthy drier and brighter spells in southern and eastern parts. After a cool start to the period, temperatures will recover during the weekend as a westerly flow becomes established. While confidence is low, by the middle of next week there are signs that high pressure may become increasingly influential on the weather across the UK, and potentially becoming rather warm in places. That said, some rain or showers are still possible, more especially in the south and/or far northwest.
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The focus for wetter weather overall is more likely to return to north and especially northwestern areas, whilst southern and eastern areas have a greater chance of being drier relative to earlier in the month. Temperatures are likely to be around average overall, though with greater potential for brief spells of warm weather in the south.
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