Overview

• WX Charts highlights a potential 48-hour snowfall window around October 15–17 focused on the Highlands and Grampian, including Aberdeenshire, Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh, and Sutherland.
• The Met Office outlook for the latter half of October points to a shift back to more unsettled weather with more frequent rain or showers, possible strong winds, and temperatures near average.
• The Met Office has named Storm Amy, with guidance suggesting the system could come close to or cross Scotland on Friday night, linked to a complex western Atlantic tropical setup involving Humberto and Imelda.
• Netweather’s Jo Farrow warns that wind and rain will dominate later this week, with heaviest falls likely in western areas while eastern regions stay relatively drier and mild.
• Meteorologist Jim Dale says October snow in England is unusual and that November is more plausible, though a covering on higher Highland peaks is expected before month-end.