Temperatures rising into next week
There’s a change in weather type as we go through the second part of the weekend, with temperatures set to increase.
Read moreVery warm sunshine for many. Cloudier with patchy rain northwest.
Dry in most areas with light winds and plenty of sunshine. Cloudier across some northern and northwestern areas with patchy light rain affecting the far northwest, where it will also be breezy. Very warm to hot in the sunshine.
Cloud and patchy rain sinking southeast across Scotland and Northern Ireland into northwest England. Turning clearer with isolated showers to the northwest. Mostly clear and warm elsewhere. Isolated fog patches.
Generally dry with any low cloud or early fog patches clearing to leave plenty of sunshine, with light winds. Becoming warm or very warm, and hot in the southeast.
Mostly fine in the north on Wednesday. Hot sunshine further south, but an increasing chance of thundery rain. This clearing eastwards on Thursday. Fresher with sunshine and showers on Friday.
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Into early August the weather will typically be dominated by a northwest-southeast split. Northwestern areas will probably experience rather breezy conditions with cloud and some outbreaks of rain or drizzle as weakening Atlantic frontal systems push eastwards across the UK. Toward the south and east it will tend to be drier and brighter much of the time, although there is also the small possibility of some thundery showers spreading in from the nearby continent. There are signs that a more widely settled period becomes more probable towards mid-August. Temperatures during this period will probably be close to or slightly above average overall, with the likelihood of some very warm conditions developing in the south and perhaps parts of the east at times.
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No single weather type is expected to dominate through this fortnight. Spells of dry, settled weather slightly more likely, although these will alternate with wetter, cloudier conditions at times. The wettest conditions will probably be in the northwest, with the southeast tending to be driest. Through the period as a whole, warmer than average conditions are more probable away from the northwest, perhaps with some hotter spells to the southeast.
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