Rathfriland (County Down) weather

Headline:

Windy, turning showery and seasonally cool.

Today:

A windy and showery day. Showers light and scattered early in the day, before turning quite frequent and occasionally heavy for the afternoon. Best of shelter to the south of Lough Neagh. Maximum temperature 15 °C.

Tonight:

Showers focused across the north and far west, but tending to die out elsewhere, with clear spells leading to a cold start in the rural southeast come dawn. Minimum temperature 4 °C.

Wednesday:

Another cool, windy, showery day, but winds a little lighter than Tuesday. Showers quite frequent, in north and far west, but elsewhere largely confined between late morning and the afternoon. Maximum temperature 15 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Brighter spells and isolated showers for Thursday, but temperatures still seasonally disappointing. Dry, bright start to Friday, then rain spreading from west later that lingers for much of Saturday.

It will likely be quite cloudy with outbreaks of rain and potentially strong winds across northwestern areas on Saturday, while somewhat drier and brighter in more southern and eastern parts. By Sunday this wetter zone of weather is likely to sink further south into more central parts, with showers following into the northwest. Confidence is low for early next week, but the chance of some rain or showers in places, more especially in the west and northwest, before a trend towards higher pressure building in the vicinity of the UK from midweek onwards, leading to a more blocked pattern thereafter. After a chilly start to the weekend, temperatures will return to near-normal for mid-September, possibly above-average in places from later next week.

The recent spell of more blocked weather patterns may ease at the beginning of this period, with a gradual revert back to a more mobile west or southwesterly type most likely, with low pressure often centred to the northwest of the UK and high pressure over the nearby continent. This would bring spells of wet and sometimes windy conditions, most frequently in the northwest, with longer drier periods towards the south and east. Temperatures will typically be near normal, perhaps a little below at times in the northwest especially, with the chance of some occasional warmer conditions in the south and east.