Orkney & Shetland weather
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Orkney & Shetland weather forecast
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Dry with sunny spells.
Today:
Another fine and dry day with plenty of sunshine. Becoming warm across sheltered western and northern areas. Fresh southeasterly winds at first becoming lighter through the day. Maximum temperature 18 °C.
Tonight:
Dry and sunny at first, but cloud builds from the west with occasional haar, mist and fog. Becoming overcast in the early hours, but starting to lift towards morning. Minimum temperature 9 °C.
Saturday:
Cloudy start on Saturday with some early mist or fog and drizzle. This lifts to allow some bright spells in the afternoon, but clouding over again in the evening. Maximum temperature 15 °C.
Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:
Mainly dry from Sunday to Tuesday with cloudier mornings but some afternoon brightness or sunshine. A few showers possible Tuesday.
Updated:
UK long range weather forecast
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:
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 warm sunshine when it's not raining.
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