UK weather

Headline:

Largely dry. Becoming less hot this weekend.

Today:

Low cloud retreating to North Sea coasts, lingering throughout the day. Sunny spells elsewhere, but isolated showers may develop across the south into the afternoon with the low risk of these being thundery. Hot in the southwest, cooler further northeast.

Tonight:

Showers in the south easing this evening, but thickening cloud in the north and northeast could bring light showers later in the night. Less warm than previous nights.

Saturday:

Largely fine with bright or sunny spells, most prolonged in the far west. Cloud spreading southwards could bring isolated showers that may turn thundery. Breezy along eastern coasts. Less hot.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Many remaining fine and dry with sunny spells, though patchy rain possible in the north where cloud thickens. Temperatures near the seasonal norm on Sunday, then trending above next week.

Initially predominantly dry with large sunny spells away from the northwest where cooler, cloudier and wetter conditions are most likely. Though there will be a few isolated showers further south at times. Becoming very warm again in parts of the south before the weekend introduces a more widely unsettled and showery period including risk of thunderstorms - though still some good sunny spells and temperatures around or just above average for most. Toward the end of the month uncertainty increases, but potentially returning to a drier, settled and warm period, in the south especially.

Perhaps a somewhat more changeable period, with the potential for showers or thunderstorms or even some longer spells of rain at times, these most likely to the north. Drier and brighter interludes are also likely, perhaps more likely across the south and southeast. Temperatures are likely to be above normal with some hot spells possible.