Gruinard Bay (Highland) weather

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Showery Friday evening. Colder Saturday. Bright spells, some coastal showers.

This Evening and Tonight:

A cloudy evening with showers, perhaps heavy. Remaining mostly cloudy overnight but becoming mostly dry with showers easing and becoming more scattered, as well as turning more wintry. Some ice or frost patches developing. Fresh to strong northwesterly winds. Minimum temperature -1 °C.

Saturday:

A mostly cloudy day but with some bright or sunny intervals breaking through. Scattered showers will mainly be confined to the north coast, and will be wintry over higher ground. Maximum temperature 5 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Patchy cloud and bright spells Sunday with a few showers. Cloudy with rain later Sunday and continuing through Monday as winds strengthen. Drier on Tuesday with sunny spells and showers.

Changeable and often unsettled conditions are expected to affect the UK during this period. The most likely weather pattern is one of successive areas of low pressure moving in from the west or southwest and then tending to become rather slow-moving in the vicinity of the UK. This means a story of showers or longer spells of rain, with almost anywhere seeing some heavy rainfall at times, but the greatest chance of wetter than normal conditions will be in the west. Any snowfall is most likely over higher ground in the north. Strong winds are also a possibility from time to time, again perhaps more likely in western areas. Given the changeable pattern originating from the Atlantic, temperatures will most likely be close to or a little above normal.

A broad continuation of the weather patterns experienced in early December is the most likely scenario through this period. This means low pressure is likely to carry on dominating the UK's weather, especially through the middle part of December. Further spells of rain, interspersed by clear, showery interludes, along with some windy conditions at times; again the wettest conditions are more likely to be in the west. Later in December, there are still hints of something a little less unsettled developing, though long-lived dry spells look unlikely. Temperatures remaining close to or perhaps a little above average overall.