Ben Nevis (Highland) weather

Headline:

Sunshine and blustery showers on Tuesday. Cold and windy.

This Evening and Tonight:

Dry at first in the far north. Otherwise cloudy with outbreaks of rain, heavy at times particularly across the west and north. Northwesterly winds will also become strong with a chance of gales in the north by dawn. Minimum temperature 5 °C.

Tuesday:

Sunny spells and blustery showers, heavy at times, and perhaps merging to longer periods of rain in the north. A windy day with risk of gales in north and west. Maximum temperature 14 °C.

Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

Wednesday cool and windy with heavy and frequent showers. Winds easing and turning drier through Thursday. A dry start to Friday then rain later.

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.