Today's weather

Rain, heavy in places, this morning will clear eastwards with clearer weather developing soon along the west coast steadily extending eastwards, bringing scattered heavy showers and cooler, fresher weather. A strong and gusty southerly wind will veer westerly with the clearing rain and ease for a time in the morning, before increasing again before the afternoon, with gale force winds at the coasts. Temperatures this afternoon will be between 7 and 9 degrees.

TONIGHT

Frequent showers this evening and early tonight will die away by morning. Temperatures will fall slowly overnight and will be at their lowest after dawn on Thursday, reaching between 3 and 5 degrees. Strong northwesterly winds will ease overnight.

TOMORROW

Tomorrow, Thursday, will start out cold and dry and sunny with temperatures of between 5 and 7 degrees at best in the afternoon. The westerly wind will ease and fall light for a time, backing southwesterly later. Cloud will increase in the afternoon.