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 overnight. Thursday, sunny spells and scattered showers.
Largely dry with some clear intervals, but scattered showers likely to move across the region towards dawn. Feeling chilly with a ground frost in places as winds fall light. Minimum temperature 3 °C.
Sunny spells, light winds and scattered showers, which may be wintry over the tops of the Cheviots and Pennines. Showers dying out into the evening with an overnight frost likely. Maximum temperature 9 °C.
Some sunny spells and scattered showers Friday and Saturday after a cold start, before turning unsettled into Sunday with outbreaks of rain, perhaps heavy in places.
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The weekend's rain probably clearing east and northeast to leave a drier day on Monday, although the chance of showers and even thunderstorms remains. Cloudier, wetter weather is likely to quickly arrive into the west, and slide east across southern areas early next week, such that the majority of the week will be characterised by wetter weather in southern UK, drier weather in northern, especially northwestern UK, and a chance of rain or even thundery showers for a time in the east. 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 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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