Glasgow Prestwick Airport (South Ayrshire) weather

Headline:

Windy, turning showery and seasonally cool.

Today:

A windy and showery day with winds reaching near gale force around the coasts and Isles early morning. Showers light and scattered early, turning frequent and occasionally heavy for the afternoon. Best of shelter in the Central Belt. Maximum temperature 15 °C.

Tonight:

Showers focused across Argyll and around the west coastal fringes, but tending to die out across Lanarkshire and in the Central Belt. Risk rural ground frost for some eastern areas. Minimum temperature 2 °C.

Wednesday:

Another cool, windy, showery day, but winds a little lighter than Tuesday. Showers quite frequent, in Argyll 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, cold 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.