UK weather

Headline:

Showers easing. Wet and windy tomorrow.

This Evening and Tonight:

Evening showers becoming confined to eastern areas, with it turning drier for a time overnight with clear skies. However, low cloud and rain arrives in the west through the early hours. Turning milder in the west, chilly elsewhere.

Thursday:

A wet and rather windy day as rain spreads across east, turning locally heavy at times, but easing later. Feeling muggy under widespread cloud cover. Turning drier by the evening.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Largely cloudy with patchy rain in the west on Friday, brighter further east. Becoming drier and warmer from the south into the weekend as high pressure gradually builds.

Fine and dry across much of the UK for the first couple of days of this period with long spells of sunshine for most. Temperatures are likely to be above normal and parts of the south could be very warm for a time. Just a chance of some thunderstorms, more likely toward the southwest. A more unsettled spell is likely through the middle of next week with outbreaks of rain the north and northwest, some of which could spread to parts of the south and southeast at times. After this, high pressure will probably become more dominant with conditions turning widely dry and settled, and probably very warm for many.

High pressure is expected to lie close to the UK at the start of this period, bringing settled and mainly dry conditions. Temperatures will likely be above normal, with potential for hot conditions to develop, especially in the south. Into July, weakening of the high pressure may bring an increasing chance of more unsettled weather and thunderstorms, especially in the south.