Carn Liath (Highland) weather

Headline:

Outbreaks of rain, snow on hills. Bright in west.

This Evening and Tonight:

Staying cloudy in the east through the evening and overnight with rain and hill snow at times. Remaining mostly dry in the west with some clear spells. Windy around coasts. Minimum temperature 3 °C.

Saturday:

Another mostly cloudy day with rain and hill snow at times, particularly for Caithness and Sutherland. Mainly dry in the west with some bright spells. Staying windy around coasts. Maximum temperature 6 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Unsettled and cold on Sunday with showers or longer spells of rain and hill snow. Mostly dry on Monday, though still quite cloudy. Rain, sleet, hill snow Tuesday. Often windy.

Weather systems moving in from the Atlantic will continue to attempt to push in from the west, but tending to stall in the vicinity of the UK as they encounter high pressure to the north and northeast. As a result, further spells of rain or showers are expected at times. These may be heavy and persistent, especially in the south and west. Whilst mild conditions are expected to encroach into the south and southwest at times, cold air is likely to be positioned to the northeast, bringing wintry showers at times. Where fronts from the south west do reach the cold air towards the north east, there is the risk of some snow, most likely across hills, but perhaps extending to other areas at times.

A similar theme is expected to continue as Atlantic frontal systems attempt to push eastwards at times. As the jet stream is slightly further south than normal, the wettest conditions are more likely in central and southern areas. North and northwestern parts of the UK are most likely to be drier than normal. Whilst mild incursions of wet and windy weather are favoured at times in the south and west, colder conditions in the north and northeast will bring an increased risk of wintry hazards, especially where any precipitation from the south west interacts with the cold air.