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Some bright spells with scattered showers.

Today:

Often cloudy but with some sunny spells, then scattered showers breaking out. Some of these heavy and perhaps thundery in the afternoon. Feeling warm in any sunshine. Any early fog clearing back to the coast, where it will feel cooler. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Tonight:

Any heavier showers dying out in the evening. Generally cloudy with the odd clear spell, and isolated light showers. Some fog possible overnight, especially on the coast. Minimum temperature 6 °C.

Monday:

Often cloudy on Monday with limited bright spells. Scattered showers breaking out once again, some of these heavy and possibly thundery. Any fog clearing back to the coast. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

More in the way of sunshine with isolated showers on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then some persistent rain is possible on Thursday. Isolated fog patches at times, mainly near the coast.

Updated: 04:00 (UTC+1) on Sun 19 May 2019

Thursday sees a gradual return to more unsettled conditions. Early rain in the north will clear leaving a few showers. Elsewhere after a mostly dry morning with sunny spells, strengthening winds will spread cloud and rain northeastwards across many west and southwestern parts of England and Wales. This more changeable weather is expected to continue into the Bank Holiday weekend with all parts seeing rain or showers at times, although by Monday the southwest should see some drier and brighter, more settled conditions. Through the rest of the period, confidence is low, but it is probable that the weather will change only slowly, with drier more settled spells occasionally interspersed by wetter, more unsettled weather. Temperatures are likely to be close to or slightly above average.

Updated: 04:00 (UTC+1) on Sun 19 May 2019

Confidence in the forecast is low for the first half of June, but the most likely scenario is for a slowly evolving weather pattern to become established, with Atlantic weather systems struggling to make eastwards progress across the UK. Overall, settled weather is most likely across northern parts of the UK, but these settled spells will extend to all areas at times. These periods of drier and settled weather will occasionally be punctuated by cooler, showery spells as Atlantic weather systems arrive from the west, albeit temporarily. Temperatures are likely to trend closer to normal as we move through June.

Updated: 04:00 (UTC+1) on Sun 19 May 2019