Filenews 22 December 2023
Low pressure is affecting the area through Saturday.
On Friday, initially, locally increased clouds are expected to give isolated showers and isolated thunderstorms, mainly in the north, west and mountains. Gradually, the weather will become partly cloudy and temporarily mostly cloudy and locally showers and isolated thunderstorms are expected in the western half of the island, while isolated phenomena are expected in other areas.
Hail is likely to fall in a thunderstorm and locally in the higher mountains, sleet or snow. The winds will blow mainly southwest to northwest, weak to moderate, 3 to 4 Beaufort and later locally on the coast to strong 4 to 5 Beaufort. The sea will be a little turbulent to turbulent and locally turbulent. The temperature will rise around 18 degrees in the interior, around 19 degrees on the coast and around 8 degrees in the higher mountains.
Tonight the weather will be partly cloudy and temporarily mostly cloudy and localised showers and isolated thunderstorms are expected. The winds will blow mainly southwest to northwest, weak to moderate, 3 to 4 Beaufort, soon on the coast moderate 4 and locally strong 5 Beaufort and later locally, very strong, 6 Beaufort. The sea will be turbulent and later in the west and locally on the south and north coasts, until wavy. The temperature will drop to around 12 degrees in the interior, around 13 in the north, east and southeast coasts, around 17 on the rest of the coasts and around 4 degrees in the higher mountains.
On Saturday, the weather will initially be partly cloudy and transient locally mostly cloudy, with isolated showers and possible isolated brief thunderstorms expected in the west and north.
On Sunday and Monday the weather will be mostly clear.
The temperature will rise slightly until Monday to hover just above average values.
