Western Highlands accessible from, and south of, Glenfinnan (Road to the Isles) and Glen Spean (includes Creag Meagaidh). This area includes Ben Nevis and the mountains around Glencoe. In the east, from Ben Alder south to Loch Lomond and Trossachs NP. Also Arran and Mull.
West Highlands
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Last updated
Tue 21st May 24 at
4:05PM
Low pressure drifting in from the east will bring scattered thundery bursts of rain, developing into increasingly widespread rain, sustained heavy rain setting in for eastern Scotland and Pennines. Cloud filling in across most hills and winds generally strengthening.
Rain developing, locally thundery; low cloud, wind increasing.
Morning: direction varied, widely less than 10mph. Afternoon onwards: Northerly, gradually strengthening to 25mph.
Negligible morning, by evening, impeding ease of walking on some higher areas.
Increasingly wet: Risk thunderstorms.
Morning: Bursts of heavy rain and thunderstorms developing, mainly western mountains. Afternoon onwards: Generally deteriorating as thundery rain becomes increasingly widespread.
Increasingly extensive on higher areas
Considerable variation both through the day and sometimes between adjacent summits. Generally deteriorating as cloud fills in following onset of rain, quite widely cloud forming on lower slopes. However, even in morning, patches of fog from some lower slopes up.
20%
A little sun, mainly morning; overall increasingly dull. Excellent visibility but deteriorating markedly as rain develops.
8C, but feeling closer to freezing on tops as wind strengthens.
Above the summits
West Highlands
Thursday 23rd May 2024
Last updated
Tue 21st May 24 at
4:05PM
Northerly 30 to 45mph, gusts over 60mph on higher mountains, especially further toward west coast.
Significant wind chill and difficult walking where exposed on higher areas.
Rain tending to ease
A broad swathe of rain (locally wet snow highest tops in Ben Nevis range) will tend to ease especially near west coast - but likely persist at least on and off most of the day well inland.
Extensive low cloud
Cloud likely to blanket the mountains very widely from dawn. As rain eases, so cloud base will tend to rise, some breaks forming toward the coast through the afternoon.
30%
Mostly cloudy or dull. Poor visibility in rain, tending to slowly improve.
2 to 5C. Wind chill feeling near -10C at times on highest summits.
Generally above the summits, but may drop to 1050m occasionally.
West Highlands
Friday 24th May 2024
Last updated
Tue 21st May 24 at
4:05PM
Variable 10-15mph or less.
Mostly small
Local rain or showers
Patchy rain drifting around slowly from dawn into the morning. Local showery bursts forming, mostly inland areas by afternoon.
Often covering tops
Varied banks of cloud covering the hills in the morning, bases tending to rise during the day, some breaks to upper slopes, but returning as ragged patches around showers.
Glimpses of sun, best sun near to coast later afternoon. Visibility good away from rain.
4 to 6C
Above the summits
A slow-moving area of low pressure will leave areas of rain and showers later this week, plus varied banks of low cloud across the mountains, feeling cool. Improving at least temporarily into the weekend as pressure rises for a time, becoming warmer, but southerly winds will strengthen ahead of lowering pressure over the Atlantic, likely to move in by early next week to bring changeable conditions, rain at times, most frequent western Scotland.