Millfire (Dumfries and Galloway) weather

Headline:

Cold but mainly dry with sunny spells

Today:

A few lingering wintry showers on the Solway coast brings the risk of icy patches, otherwise a dry, frosty morning with sunny spells. Cloud in the east tending to increase this afternoon bringing a risk of a few wintry showers. Maximum temperature 3 °C.

Tonight:

Long clear spells in west with a widespread, locally severe, frost developing. However, the Lothians and Borders look cloudier with occasional showers, these falling as snow on the hills. Minimum temperature -6 °C.

Monday:

Mainly dry with sunny spells but cold in the west, but remaining cloudier in the east with further showers, these falling as snow on the hills. Occasionally fresh northeasterly winds. Maximum temperature 6 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

A few east coast wintry showers, otherwise largely sunny, Tuesday and Wednesday with widespread, locally severe, overnight frosts. Strengthening southeasterly winds may bring rain, preceded by snow, on Thursday.

Updated: 04:00 (UTC) on Sun 3 Dec 2023

An uncertain start to the period as milder and more generally unsettled, windy conditions across the south and west try and extend further north and east. Its likely that these milder conditions will ultimately spread to the whole UK, but it may well take until the weekend to reach the extreme northeast of Scotland. Elsewhere, milder, or at least less cold weather than the preceding days, with areas of rain and stronger winds, more especially in the west, this erratically spreading further north and east with time, and turning to snow across parts of the northeast especially. Moving towards mid December and more generally unsettled and milder conditions look most probable although a return of the colder conditions cannot be ruled out entirely.

Updated: 14:00 (UTC) on Sat 2 Dec 2023

Conditions are most likely to be changeable through this period. Wetter and windier than average conditions are slightly more likely than normal, especially in the west and northwest. Temperatures are most likely to be near or above average overall, especially in the south and west. It is possible that there ill be further colder interludes, but these likely to be short lived at first. Perhaps a greater chance of a longer cold spell late in the period.

Updated: 15:00 (UTC) on Sat 2 Dec 2023