Grampian: forecast

Location weather forecasts:

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• Aberdeen
• Braemar
• Buckie
• Burghead
• Charlestown
• Elgin
• Fraserburgh
• Kinloss
• Lossiemouth
• Macduff
• Peterhead

Headline:

Mainly dry with some hazy sunny spells.

This Evening and Tonight:

Generally dry and bright with some late sunny spells, any isolated light showers dying out.. Tonight dry with clear spells, quite chilly with some short-lived valley mist patches developing around dawn. Minimum temperature 3 °C.

Sunday:

A dry start with hazy spells of sunshine ,but clouds will slowly thicken from the West during the afternoon making the sunshine fade, but staying mostly dry. Maximum temperature 14 °C.

Updated: 1453 on Sat 11 Oct 2008

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Early rain on Monday clearing to showers and sunny intervals. Tuesday starting dry but rain developing later to leave a rather wet and windy spell midweek.

Updated: 1453 on Sat 11 Oct 2008

UK Outlook for Thursday 16 Oct 2008 to Saturday 25 Oct 2008:

All forecast models indicate a broadly westerly flow throughout, bringing cloud, rain, and strong winds. This gives moderate to high confidence in the general pattern, but makes attempting any day to day detail difficult. After a decent start in southeastern parts, the first few days are likely to become fairly unsettled and windy across all parts, rain or showers and strong to gale force northwesterly winds in the north extending southeastwards. This unsettled type will continue for northern and northwestern Britain particularly, but with a hint that southern and southeastern Britain sees a return to somewhat drier and less windy conditions during the second half of the period. Temperatures, typically near normal at first in the south and east, will tend towards normal or a little below normal everywhere.

Updated: 1148 on Sat 11 Oct 2008

Seasonal forecasting:

Seasonal forecasting is a developing area of meteorology and, although these forecasts are not as accurate as our short-term forecasts, they do demonstrate some skill in predicting what may happen for a season (a three-month period) ahead.

The forecasts provide an estimation of broad trends in temperature and rainfall and will normally be expressed in probabilistic terms, with the more likely outcome highlighted. Information contained in these forecasts can allow business to plan ahead for weather that is forecast to be different from normal.

Winter 2008/9 - Issued: Thu 25 Sep 2008

Autumn 2008 - Updated: Wed 24 Sep 2008

Summer 2008 - forecast for the remainder of summer Updated: Wed 30 Jul 2008

Spring 2008 - forecast appraisal Updated: Wed 6 Aug 2008