Ben Hope (Highland) weather

Headline:

Cloudy and windy with scattered showers, drier, brighter east.

Today:

The day will be cloudy with scattered showers some heavy or thundery. Bright spells will increase in the afternoon, mainly in the east. Continuing windy. Maximum temperature 14 °C.

Tonight:

The evening and night will continue windy. It will be cloudy with isolated showers in the west but drier with clear periods in the east. Minimum temperature 7 °C.

Tuesday:

A breezy day with sunny spells interspersed with the occasional shower, these mainly in the west. Maximum temperature 14 °C.

Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

Scattered showers northwest Wednesday otherwise dry. Rain will pass north-eastwards overnight with showers following Thursday. Windy with showers west, drier east Friday.

Likely continuing changeable with further frontal systems running east into the UK bringing further spells of rain, with showery interludes in-between. Strong winds may also develop at times, particularly in the north and northwest. With time the signs are that systems will increasingly track to the northwest of the country, with the south probably starting to see longer, drier interludes while the northwest continues to see more in the way of rain and at times strong winds, Temperatures are expected to be around normal overall, but will be cooler in any prolonged periods of rainfall. Meanwhile there is the possibility of some very warm, perhaps hot conditions developing, especially in the south and these bring with them the chance of thunderstorms.

Changeable weather across the UK with a mixture of Atlantic weather systems moving in from the west interspersed with dry and sunny periods. Wetter conditions tending to be across the northwest of the UK, with the south and southeast likely to see more in the way of dry weather, Temperatures are most likely to be near normal or slightly above, perhaps with some hot spells at times, especially across the south.