Swanage (Dorset) weather

Headline:

Increasingly cloudy and breezy with rain this weekend.

Today:

Mainly dry and bright with plenty of sunny spells once any mist quickly clears. Breezy at times, especially through the Bristol Channel. Feeling warm in the sunshine. Maximum temperature 24 °C.

Tonight:

Cloud building through the evening, lowering to produce fog over the Moors by dawn on Saturday. Showers and longer spells of rain arriving in the early hours. Breezy and mild. Minimum temperature 14 °C.

Saturday:

Damp and grey for much of Saturday with outbreaks of rain and perhaps some heavier showers. Misty and murky over the Moors and along western coasts. Breezy but feeling humid. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Turning fresher from Sunday. Bright and breezy to end the weekend with scattered showers, these becoming less frequent into next week with more sunny spells emerging. Winds easing by Tuesday.

Likely a fairly cool start to the period with a few showers still to clear from the east, but for most it should become fine and dry, although some chilly mornings are possible. Through the rest of the week any rain will tend to focus on the north or northwest of the country, with the south becoming predominantly dry. Temperatures are likely to remain close to, perhaps a little below average initially. However through the second half of the week and especially the following weekend there are signs that temperatures will begin to trend up, becoming warm or very warm once again, especially across southern parts of the UK, but perhaps more widely as we head toward the middle of July.

Changeable conditions with a predominantly northwest to southeast split in temperature and rainfall, and the potential for further occasional episodes of hot weather and thundery outbreaks, are considered likely to gradually give way to something more settled and dry overall through the second half of July. Temperatures are likely to be above average, with the greatest chance of very warm or hot spells in the south or southeast.