Great Bentley (Essex) weather

Headline:

Chilly with sunshine and showers.

Today:

Early fog patches clearing to sunny spells, although feeling rather cool. Becoming increasingly cloudy and showery, with isolated sharp showers in the afternoon, a low risk of thunder. Drier to the south. Maximum temperature 12 °C.

Tonight:

Any lingering showers soon easing through the early evening with some late evening sunny spells. Cloud and slow moving rain arriving from the south overnight. Minimum temperature 3 °C.

Saturday:

A cloudy day with outbreaks of rain moving north. Becoming drier and perhaps brighter into the afternoon before winds strengthen and heavy rain arrives from the south overnight. Mild. Maximum temperature 13 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

A spell of heavy rain initially Sunday, replaced by sunny spells later. Breezy Monday, but largely dry with sunny intervals. Sunny spells and scattered showers or rain Tuesday. Increasingly mild.

Updated: 05:00 (UTC+1) on Fri 26 Apr 2024

The period is likely to start with areas of organised rain and/or showers in the west, and largely dry conditions in the east although a scattering of showers developing by day. As the week progresses thes more organised areas of rain and showers are likely to slide southeast to affect southern parts of the UK, with drier weather in northern, especially northwestern UK Winds will gradually turn from southerly to easterly, with a chance of rain or even thundery showers for a time in the east and southeast. Temperatures likely to trend upwards, with the chance of a warm to very warm spell in some southern and eastern parts, before conditions probably turn gradually drier, cooler and more settled from the west towards the end of the period.

Updated: 15:00 (UTC+1) on Thu 25 Apr 2024

In this period, the chances of unsettled weather are slightly less than usual in the north and about the same as usual further south. Therefore, some spells of wetter weather are likely for all, but perhaps especially southern areas with the driest conditions probably further north. Temperatures probably near average though with some cooler interludes possible. Also worth noting that average temperatures themselves rise by around 1C per week at this time of year.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC+1) on Thu 25 Apr 2024