Westray Airfield (Orkney Islands) weather

Headline:

Light winds and some bright conditions but a few showers.

Today:

Sunny spells with the odd shower possible throughout the day. Cloudier across Orkney to start but mostly dry, perhaps the south seeing a little rain early in the day, light winds. Maximum temperature 12 °C.

Tonight:

Cloud mostly clearing to leave a fine and dry evening with light winds. Cloud developing for Orkney later in the night and strengthening winds here too just after dawn. Minimum temperature 5 °C.

Saturday:

A dry start for Shetland, but blustery showers affecting Orkney will spread north during the afternoon with a wet evening in store. Maximum temperature 15 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Remaining unsettled with sunny spells and showers Sunday, a fine day on Monday, stronger winds and some late rain on Tuesday.

An unsettled spell of weather is expected through the middle and later part of next week as areas of low pressure move in from the Atlantic across the UK. These will bring showers or longer spells of rain to most areas, these heavy at times, perhaps accompanied by strong winds along some coasts. Over the following weekend and towards the middle of June, dry weather will probably begin to become more dominant in the south, whereas the north is more likely to remain more unsettled with further episodes of rain or showers and strong winds. Temperatures are likely to be close to or slightly below normal at first, perhaps rising above average later, with a low chance of hot conditions developing for a time.

Changeable weather most likely across the UK with a mixture of Atlantic weather systems moving in from the west interspersed with dry and sunny periods, perhaps with a bias towards longer dry spells early in the period. The wettest conditions on average are likely to be in the northwest, with the driest weather in the south and southeast. Temperatures are most likely to be near or slightly above normal, perhaps with some hot spells at times, especially across the south.