High pressure building for the weekend
After what feels like weeks and indeed months of wind and rain, there is some good news on the horizon.
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After what feels like weeks and indeed months of wind and rain, there is some good news on the horizon.
Read moreSome murky starts. Eventual sunshine and showers Friday.
Occasional light rain and isolated heavier showers will ease westwards, leaving the region drier but extensively cloudy, with mist and fog developing in places. A little light rain or drizzle is again eventually possible in the north. Mostly mild. Minimum temperature 7 °C.
Early fog and low cloud dispersing to reveal warm sunny spells. Staying dry for many, although western and central parts perhaps seeing scattered heavy, perhaps thundery showers. Maximum temperature 22 °C.
Further murky starts are expected for many, with low cloud and fog clearing to a few showers and warm sunny spells. Cooler on coasts where an onshore breeze occurs.
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There is a lot of uncertainty in this period, even at the start when the UK will be in-between low pressure over the near continent trying to keep things unsettled and potentially thundery; high pressure to the west or southwest which would settle things down; and finally low pressure to the north or northwest which may being a more climatological split in conditions between the south and north. Overall though, one way or another, it looks like remaining fairly unsettled across much of the UK, with further rain, showers or even thunderstorms in places, though there will be some sunshine between times, the best of this possibly in southwestern parts. Both rainfall amounts and temperatures are likely to be a little above average, but some large spatial differences are likely.
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There is nothing to suggest that conditions will be massively different to climatology at the end of the current month and though the first half of June. That said, both temperatures and rainfall are more-likely to be a little above average overall, with a fairly mixed bag seemingly most probable, with further rain or showers (possibly heavy/thundery at times) but also some spells of warm sunshine when it's not raining.
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