Kirkwall (Orkney Islands) weather

Headline:

Cloudy start Sunday, sunny into the afternoon.

This Evening and Tonight:

Cloudy with showers across Shetland this evening, drier for Orkney with some bright spells to end the day. Turning increasingly cloudy across the Northern Isles overnight with some outbreaks of drizzle. Minimum temperature 8 °C.

Sunday:

A cloudy start to the day with some outbreaks of drizzle and fog patches, Brightening up during the morning, with sunshine into the afternoon. Maximum temperature 13 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Dry and largely sunny on Monday and Tuesday. Cloudier by Wednesday with showers or longer spells of rain at times.

Updated: 17:00 (UTC+1) on Sat 18 May 2024

Most likely an unsettled start to the period with western showers and eastern rain, potentially heavy in the northeast, before a transient settled spell late in the week. Early in the bank holiday weekend a band of rain, heavy at times moves in from the west, becoming weaker as it moves east becoming more showery in nature with scattered showers also following. Into the new week increasingly settled conditions more likely for most, though rain may threaten north-western areas early on whilst some southern or eastern areas occasionally less settled with showers more likely later in the period though there will be some sunshine between times, the best of this in south-western parts. Temperatures are likely to be a little above average, but some large spatial differences are likely.

Updated: 15:00 (UTC+1) on Sat 18 May 2024

Relatively muted signals for conditions to be markedly different from climatology through the first half of June. That said, both temperatures and rainfall are more-likely to be a little above average overall, with further rain or showers (possibly heavy/thundery at times) but also some spells of warm sunshine.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC+1) on Sat 18 May 2024