Warm for many with a change on the way
Warm and settled conditions will subside later this weekend, with thunderstorms likely for some from Sunday.
Read moreDry on Saturday with plenty of warm sunshine.
It will be a dry and warm day with plenty of sunshine. The best of the sunshine will be in the morning with patchy clouds building in the afternoon. Light southerly winds. Maximum temperature 22 °C.
It will remain dry through the evening and overnight. There will be some clearer spells through the night between areas of patchy high cloud. Minimum temperature 9 °C.
A dry and bright start Sunday, but scattered showers soon spread north, some heavy, possibly thundery, especially in the west. Maximum temperature 22 °C.
Showers becoming longer spells of rain on Monday, becoming drier later on Tuesday. Generally brighter with scattered afternoon showers Wednesday.
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Low pressure is expected to be dominant across the UK at the start of this period, bringing widely unsettled conditions. Most areas will be affected by showers, which could in a few places be heavy, slow-moving, with thunder and possibly hail, or even longer spells of rain at first. Winds will mostly be light, and temperatures around to a little above average for the time of year. Heading into next weekend and beyond confidence falls significantly, but on balance the weather is more likely to turn a little less unsettled, with a greater chance of longer drier interludes between further rain or showers. Temperatures overall most likely to be a little above average but the chances of any prolonged settled, dry or hot weather are lower than normal.
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Signals during this period are extremely weak, and for the most part indistinguishable from climatology. Similar weather conditions to those of the preceding few days are most likely to characterise this period to the end of May; a mixture of unsettled periods with rain and showers and settled interludes in-between. By early June, the chances of above and below average rainfall are evenly balanced. There is a slightly higher likelihood of above average temperatures compared with below average temperatures, such that the chance of hot spells, although still very small, is slightly higher than normal too.
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