Ayr Racecourse (South Ayrshire) weather

Headline:

Cold conditions setting in, clear spells with isolated showers.

This Evening and Tonight:

Showers focused across Argyll and down west coasts, with best of the shelter in Central Belt and Lanarkshire. Frost developing for many. Northwest winds fresh to strong around coasts initially and feeling colder than recent weeks. Minimum temperature -1 °C.

Sunday:

Occasional showers, turning more wintry across Argyll, also merging to longer spells of rain for a time during afternoon across the area. Northwest breezes. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Some wintry showers Monday, with longer periods of snow, rain reaching from south for a time from afternoon. Brisk north to northwest winds bringing some limited wintry showers Tuesday, Wednesday.

Cold or very cold conditions are expected across most if not all parts of the UK early in this period, with wintry showers affecting in particular northern parts and exposed coastal districts, although it may well be largely sunny inland. Overnight frost will be widespread and occasionally strong winds will result in significant wind chill. However, there is an increasing chance through the first weekend and into the following week of more organised areas of rain, snow and strong winds affecting many areas, this probably also associated with milder temperatures, at least in the south. Later in the period, conditions remain uncertain, but it is most likely to remain mostly unsettled with further spells of rain and snow.

Signals vary in prevailing weather patterns through early December. In general, there looks like a trend towards drier and more settled conditions, with high pressure potentially being the more dominant influence over the UK. However. there is also a chance of more changeable weather patterns, which would see Atlantic weather systems periodically move across the country. These will bring some wetter and windier interludes with a risk of some snow, especially for hills in the north. Temperatures generally close to average, perhaps a little above at times, especially in the south.