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Windy today with heavy blustery showers, though sunny spells too.
Today:
A windy and occasionally wet day with rain clearing eastern counties. Heavy and squally showers arriving in the west. Strong northwesterly winds with gales in places. Feeling much colder. Maximum temperature 12 °C.
Tonight:
Clear spells and showers this evening and overnight, these heavy in places and most focussed across western areas. Blustery westerly winds, strongest in coastal regions, easing inland. Turning rather chilly. Minimum temperature 5 °C.
Friday:
Another rather windy day with gales possible in some coastal areas. Occasional sunny intervals with the likelihood of heavy showers, these perhaps locally thundery. Feeling rather cold in the wind. Maximum temperature 13 °C.
Outlook for Saturday to Monday:
Sunny spells on Saturday though showers still possible, these mostly in Devon and Cornwall. Bright spells on Sunday and Monday with the odd shower. Often breezy and feeling rather cold.
Updated:
UK long range weather forecast
A changeable start to the period with bands of rain from the Atlantic moving across the country. at times. The wettest and windiest conditions are likely to be across the northwest with some decent drier interludes across the south and east. Around the turn of the month or into early November, wetter and windier conditions across the north and west are likely to extend more widely across the country. It is somewhat uncertain when this will occur with high pressure attempting to maintain some influence across the southeast maintaining more settled conditions here. Temperatures will be a little below average at the start of the period, likely trending upwards with potential for a mild spell around the turn of the month.
Updated:
Unsettled conditions are most likely during early November with showers or longer spells of rain across all areas at times along with spells of strong winds. Temperatures through this period are overall likely to be around or above average with any colder spells short-lived between weather systems. Into mid-November, while there is an increased chance of more settled spells, the likelihood of whether settled or unsettled conditions are more prevalent are reasonably balanced.