UK weather

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Chilly for many tonight.

This Evening and Tonight:

Cloudy in the far south at first, but skies gradually clearing. Clear skies for many and turning chilly with fog forming in eastern England. Turning cloudier in Scotland and Northern Ireland with outbreaks of rain and brisk winds.

Sunday:

After a chilly, locally foggy start, much of England and Wales enjoys warm sunny spells. Further north, cloud, rain and fresh winds spread across the north.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Staying unsettled, with rain bands drifting southeast through the week. Brighter spells and showers follow, heaviest in the north. Often breezy, especially near coasts. Warm at first, cooler from Wednesday.

Fine and dry weather, with a few showers in the north, will quickly give way to a more changeable period as weather systems move in from the Atlantic towards the end of next week and into the following weekend. These will bring spells of rain or showers to most areas, heavy at times (especially in the northwest) with some strong winds. However, there will still be some drier interludes between systems. Into the middle of the month, similarly changeable conditions are most likely, with a mixture of Atlantic weather systems interspersed with some drier, brighter spells. Temperatures will likely be near to or slightly below normal at first, perhaps becoming warmer later.

The second half of October will probably maintain a changeable pattern overall with weather systems often moving in from the Atlantic. These will bring showers or longer spells of rain, with the wettest and windiest weather in the northwest, drier in the southeast. There is a chance that a period of more widely dry conditions could develop for a time, but confidence in the details of this is low. Temperatures will probably be above average overall.