Sunny spells and scattered showers, heavy in the east.
Rain across southeast England will clear this morning. Rain across the north and west will also break up, leaving sunny spells and a few showers. Showers across central and eastern areas locally heavy and thundery. Feeling warm in the southeast.
Evening showers will clear to leave a dry night for much of the UK, though perhaps a few light showers continuing across the far west. Cooler than recent nights.
A dry and warm day for most, with sunny spells. However, heavy rain and strengthening winds will gradually spread into the northwest of the UK through the afternoon and evening.
Rain, heavy over the hills, will continue across the northwest on Monday, though clearing Tuesday. Elsewhere, sunny and becoming very warm or hot, with an increasing thunderstorm risk by Wednesday.
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This period will tend to see a northwest to southeast split in the weather across the UK, with northwestern parts experiencing spells of rain, which could be heavy at times, as well as some periods of strong wind bringing a risk of coastal gales. By contrast, southern and southeastern parts of the UK should see much drier and warmer weather, which could be hot and rather humid at times, especially in the first half of the next week. Thunderstorms could develop as any hot, settled weather breaks down from the west. Beyond that, the forecast is more uncertain, but overall the northwest to southeast split will most probably continue. The south and southeast are likely to see some rain but it will be less frequent than in the northwest.
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As we move into early August, the final month of the meteorological summer, confidence is low in the forecast with no one single weather pattern looking to dominate. As is often the case in summer, this could well mean plenty of fine, dry weather, interspersed with occasional rain or thundery outbreaks, leading to marked local variations in rainfall. Temperatures are likely to be above average, perhaps more especially in the south and west.
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