Strathclyde weather

Headline:

Mainly dry today, just a few showers. Bright, warm afternoon.

Today:

This morning will be cloudy with some patchy rain. This afternoon will see bright or sunny intervals along the odd shower across South Ayrshire and Argyll. Warm in the sunshine. Maximum temperature 20 °C.

Tonight:

Any showers dying out this evening. Then the rest of the night will be dry with lengthy clear periods. Some mist and low cloud developing through the Central Belt. Minimum temperature 10 °C.

Friday:

Low cloud burning off through the morning to leave a mainly dry day with plenty of sunshine. A few showers developing over high ground in the afternoon. Warm. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Mainly dry, bright and warm on Saturday although a few afternoon showers. Cloudier with the odd shower on Sunday. Dry and bright on Monday.

Updated: 05:00 (UTC+1) on Thu 16 May 2024

There is a lot of uncertainty in this period, even at the start when the UK will be in-between low pressure over the near continent trying to keep things unsettled and potentially thundery; high pressure to the west or southwest which would settle things down; and finally low pressure to the north or northwest which may being a more climatological split in conditions between the south and north. Overall though, one way or another, it looks like remaining fairly unsettled across much of the UK, with further rain, showers or even thunderstorms in places, though there will be some sunshine between times, the best of this possibly in southwestern parts. Both rainfall amounts and temperatures are likely to be a little above average, but some large spatial differences are likely.

Updated: 15:00 (UTC+1) on Thu 16 May 2024

There is nothing to suggest that conditions will be massively different to climatology at the end of the current month and though the first half of June. That said, both temperatures and rainfall are more-likely to be a little above average overall, with a fairly mixed bag seemingly most probable, with further rain or showers (possibly heavy/thundery at times) but also some spells of increasingly warm sunshine when it's not raining.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC+1) on Wed 15 May 2024