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.
Read moreChilly with sunshine and showers.
Early fog patches clearing to sunny spells, although feeling rather cool. Becoming increasingly cloudy and showery, with isolated sharp showers in the afternoon, a low risk of thunder. Maximum temperature 10 °C.
Any lingering showers soon easing through the early evening. Driest near coasts where skies clear first. Becoming clear and cold overnight, with patchy fog and widespread frosts likely. Minimum temperature -3 °C.
A dry day for most, with early sunshine gradually replaced by patchy cloud. Chance of an isolated shower later. Heavy rain may arrive by the end of the night. Maximum temperature 11 °C.
A spell of heavy rain initially Sunday, replaced by sunny spells later. Breezy Monday, but largely dry with sunny intervals. Sunny spells and scattered heavy showers Tuesday. Increasingly mild.
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The period is likely to start with areas of organised rain and/or showers in the west, and largely dry conditions in the east although a scattering of showers developing by day. As the week progresses thes more organised areas of rain and showers are likely to slide southeast to affect southern parts of the UK, with drier weather in northern, especially northwestern UK Winds will gradually turn from southerly to easterly, with a chance of rain or even thundery showers for a time in the east and southeast. Temperatures likely to trend upwards, with the chance of a warm to very warm spell in some southern and eastern parts, before conditions probably turn gradually drier, cooler and more settled from the west towards the end of the period.
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In this period, the chances of unsettled weather are slightly less than usual in the north and about the same as usual further south. Therefore, some spells of wetter weather are likely for all, but perhaps especially southern areas with the driest conditions probably further north. Temperatures probably near average though with some cooler interludes possible. Also worth noting that average temperatures themselves rise by around 1C per week at this time of year.
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