Extended Outlook Forecast
1800 UTC Sat 11 Feb until 1800 UTC Tue 14 Feb
Issued by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, at 092300 UTC
Portpatrick
A large area of high pressure, 1038Mb, will be centred over southern Britain Saturday evening. This feature will move slowly southwest Sunday as a developing low pressure system near Iceland moves towards the Norwegian Sea. On Monday the high will move further west, the centre just west of Shannon Monday night. At the same time the low pressure area will develop further southeast, with a centre around 991Mb over Denmark Monday night. This low is expected to continue southwards to Germany Tuesday, with the Atlantic high maintaining position. Strong to gale southwesterly winds will develop across the north of the area Sunday, mainly north of about 57 degrees. The strong to gale winds will veer northwesterly Sunday night and Monday and also spread to all but some western parts. The strongest winds, with severe gale or storm force northwesterlies for a time will affect Faeroes and Fair Isle. Winds are likely to ease somewhat during Tuesday, although remaining strong to gale northerly or northwesterly over many eastern parts.
Cullercoats
A large area of high pressure, 1038Mb, will be centred over southern Britain Saturday evening. This feature will move slowly southwest during Sunday as a developing low pressure system near Iceland moves towards the Norwegian Sea. On Monday the high will move further west, with the centre just west of Shannon Monday night. At the same time the low pressure area will develop further southeast, with a centre of around 991Mb over Denmark Monday night. This low is expected to continue southwards to Germany Tuesday, with the Atlantic high maintaining position. Strong northwesterly winds are likely to affect some eastern parts of the North Sea Sunday then on Sunday night strong to gale southwesterly winds are expected to develop across the north of the area. Northwesterly gales are then likely to develop across most of the area Monday, perhaps with storm force winds over some northern and western parts Monday night. Winds are expected to veer a little to northerly Tuesday and ease somewhat but still strong to gale in many parts Tuesday evening.
Niton
A large area of high pressure, 1038Mb, will be centred over southern Britain Saturday evening. This feature will move slowly southwest during Sunday as a developing low pressure system near Iceland moves towards the Norwegian Sea. On Monday the high will move further west, with the centre just west of Shannon Monday night. At the same time the low pressure area will develop further southeast, with a centre of around 991Mb over Denmark Monday night. This low is expected to continue southwards to Germany Tuesday, with the Atlantic high maintaining position. Strong easterly or northeasterly winds are likely over southern parts of Fitzroy Saturday evening and overnight into Sunday. Strong northwesterly winds are then likely to develop across much of the area later Monday and Monday night. Strong, locally gale, northerly or northwesterly winds are expected to continue across many parts throughout Tuesday, with winds strongest east of about 7 degrees West.
