UK weather

Headline:

Staying hot and dry, but temperatures slowing coming down.

This Evening and Tonight:

Dry with clear spells for most overnight. However, low cloud near eastern coasts will redevelop and extend into many central areas by dawn. A warm night in the south.

Friday:

Areas of cloud across eastern counties receding, but lingering near North Sea coasts. Otherwise, a dry day with sunny spells. Another very warm day, locally hot in the southwest.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Staying dry and settled through the weekend. Further sunny spells, although cloud amounts generally increasing, perhaps bringing the odd shower. Very warm initially, with temperatures then returning closer to average.

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.