Althorp House weather

Headline:

Cloudy with heavy rain at first, easing into the afternoon.

Today:

A cloudy start with persistent rain, heavy and possibly thundery in places, gradually easing during the morning. Remaining cloudy during the afternoon with outbreaks of light rain, mainly in the west, becoming dry by evening. Light winds throughout the day. Maximum temperature 18 °C.

Tonight:

Continuing cloudy overnight, but remaining mostly dry. Widespread hill fog over Derbyshire hills may bring some patchy drizzle at times. Light winds continuing. Minimum temperature 11 °C.

Wednesday:

Cloudy and dull at first, but slowly becoming brighter during the morning, with sunny spells developing through the afternoon and evening. Feeling cooler near the coast in onshore breezes. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Warm inland but cooler on coasts throughout. Thursday sunny after early cloud clears. Friday dry and breezier with sunny spells, but coasts cloudier. Saturday sunny with showers later, perhaps thundery.

Updated: 04:00 (UTC+1) on Tue 25 Jun 2019

Sunday will be fresher than of late, with sunny spells and occasional showers. The showers will be heaviest in the northwest, where there will be a risk of thunderstorms and coastal gales. However southeastern areas will stay dry, warm and humid. By Monday, the fresher conditions will spread to all areas. It will likely stay drier across the south and southeast though. Thereafter, as we go into early July the most likely scenario is for a continuation for warm or very warm, perhaps locally hot, and potentially thundery, weather possible for parts of the UK. There is likely to be occasional spells of dry and fine weather though. Temperatures will return closer to normal after a potentially very warm or hot spell of weather at the start of the period.

Updated: 04:00 (UTC+1) on Tue 25 Jun 2019

During the first half of July confidence in the forecast becomes very low. It seems most probable that high pressure will be close to the north and east of the UK, with lower pressure and Atlantic frontal systems nearer the southwest. This would bring more unsettled weather over southern and southwestern parts of the UK, with some rain or showers. However, the north and east would see more in the way of drier and settled weather. Temperatures during this period are likely to be around or slightly above normal.

Updated: 04:00 (UTC+1) on Tue 25 Jun 2019