Beinn Sgulaird (Argyll and Bute) weather

Headline:

Rain, hill snow clearing Wednesday morning. Coastal wintry showers follow.

This Evening and Tonight:

New Year's Eve will be showery with stronger winds at times, Ayrshire mostly likely to remain driest with a few clear spells possible here. Turning colder overnight. Minimum temperature 1 °C.

Wednesday:

A cold start with fresh or strong northerly winds and showers or longer spells of rain, turning wintry at lower levels. Dry and bright afternoon inland away from coastal showers. Maximum temperature 3 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

The very cold spell continuing for the first few days of January, northerly winds and some wintry showers for coastal areas, a lot of bright and dry conditions further inland.

A cold start to this period, with a mix of snow, sleet and rain showers in the north. Milder air may make inroads from the south during the first Sunday and Monday, bringing snow, rain and perhaps strong winds, but the northern extent of this is unclear and it may be that most or all of the UK remains in the colder air. Beyond this, the weather looks rather varied, with high pressure, cold air and wintry showers more likely across the north and northeast, spells of rain, snow and strong winds more likely in the south and southwest, and an uncertain balance between these two regimes. Overall, temperatures are more likely to be below normal than above, but day to day and regional variations are likely.

Slowly-evolving weather patterns look most likely through the second half of January, with high pressure often in the vicinity of the UK, although the flavour of the weather we experience depends on where the high and low pressure centres are relative to the UK. There are currently no strong signals for prolonged cold but spells of cold weather are likely, with frost, fog, and wintry showers. Pulses of more unsettled weather are more likely across the south than the north, and may bring milder conditions for a time too.