Good evening Western Isles on this Monday evening we are seeing a mixture of sunshine and cloud. Winds are brisk and have been gusting up to 40 mph. Today’s max temp of 16.2C. The rest of this evening we will see cloud spread in again with rain following later.

Overnight – We are going to see an overcast night with some spells of light rain and drizzle. At times the rain will become heavy especially in the early hours of tomorrow morning. We are going to see some dry spells in between the rain and it will stay fairly windy. Winds gusting 20 to 40 mph.

Morning and afternoon – We are going to see a mixture of sunshine and spells of rain. These will be heavy at times. Becoming more showery by late afternoon. It will stay windy throughout. In between a mixture of sunshine and cloud. Some decent spells of sunshine. Winds gusting 20 to 30 mph at times maybe reaching 40 mph.

Evening – Further spells of rain which again at times will be heavy and becoming more showery. Less in the way of sunshine and more cloud. Winds of 10 to 30 mph gusting 40 mph.

Winds will be from the South and South West. Temps of 11C to 17C

Sunrise and Sunset

Stornoway – 06:26 and 20:23

South Uist – 06:32 and 20:25

3 days ahead

Wednesday – Windy with gales possible winds widely gusting 40 mph possibly reaching 50 to 55 mph. Spells of rain which will be heavy at times.

Thursday – Sunshine and showers with winds gusting 30 to 40 mph.

Friday – A drier day mainly fine dry and sunny with winds gusting 20 to 40 mph.

long range – Winds ease over the weekend but are expected to increase again into early next week