March weather

Headline:

Turning drier overnight, then mainly dry for Monday with sunshine.

This Evening and Tonight:

Showers and any remaining showery rain affecting more eastern areas will mostly die out overnight. Remaining rather cloudy with a few clear spells. Becoming mainly dry by midnight. Some mist and fog may form overnight, especially near the coast. Minimum temperature 8 °C.

Monday:

Monday bright with sunny spells, once any early mist and fog clears. A few showers may develop by afternoon, but most places staying dry. Feeling warm inland by afternoon. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

More in the way of sunshine but with some showers on Tuesday and Wednesday. Some patchy rain is possible on Thursday. Feeling warm most afternoons.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC+1) on Sun 19 May 2019

Friday is likely to be a showery day with variable but often large amounts of cloud. Any sunny spells may trigger heavy showers with a risk of thunder and showers may merge to give longer spells of rain across the north and the far south. Temperatures should be near to normal. This changeable weather is expected to continue into the Bank Holiday weekend with strong winds and spells of rain likely, at first, before clearing to a mixture of sunshine and showers. Showers may become heavy and thundery across southern areas with temperatures generally near to or slightly below average. The rest of the period remains rather uncertain, although the weather is expected to become largely settled interrupted by spells of changeable weather.

Updated: 16:00 (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 mostly close to normal as we move through June.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC+1) on Sun 19 May 2019