The weather forecast from the Met Office at Ronaldsway Airport:

Dry with bright or sunny intervals this morning as the fresh to strong westerly wind eases and turns to the south, before strengthening again from the southeast this afternoon as it turns cloudy and an area of heavy rain arrives, creating difficult driving conditions with a risk of localised flooding.

Top temperature around 10°C.

The heavy rain will clear to showers later this evening, as the wind turns to the west or southwest and increases strong to gale force. Minimum temperature around 3°C.

Outlook

Tomorrow will remain unsettled with showers which are likely to merge into some longer spells of rain at times. It will also become very windy again later in the afternoon as a gale force north-westerly wind develops. Maximum temperature around 8°C.

A mixture of bright or sunny spells and scattered showers on Thursday, which will gradually die away later in the day.

The strong westerly wind will gradually fall light with highs of 10 or 11°C.

Sunrise: 6:28am

Sunset: 8:13pm