Orkney & Shetland weather

Headline:

Haar on Saturday morning, brighter spells developing later.

Today:

A cloudy start on Saturday with some early mist or fog and drizzle. This lifts through the morning to allow some bright spells in the afternoon, Maximum temperature 14 °C.

Tonight:

Some bright spells at first, but it will cloud over through the evening with a few light showery outbreaks developing in the early hours. Minimum temperature 8 °C.

Sunday:

Cloudy morning with some showery outbreaks of rain and the odd fog patch. This clearing through the morning to allow a few bright spells in the afternoon. Maximum temperature 13 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Mainly dry Monday and Tuesday with some good spells of brightness or sunshine. Cloudier later Tuesday into Wednesday with a few showers possible.

Updated: 05:00 (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

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 further rain or showers (possibly heavy/thundery at times) but also some spells of warm sunshine.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC+1) on Fri 17 May 2024