Draperstown (County Londonderry) weather

Headline:

Mostly dry with sunny spells Wednesday. Rain clearing far south.

This Evening and Tonight:

Cloud and occasionally heavy rain will gradually ease from the northwest through the evening and overnight, with clear spells developing across northern counties. Winds easing and turning northeasterly. Minimum temperature 7 °C.

Wednesday:

Cloud and patchy rain across the south soon clearing, with sunny spells across the north developing more widely through the morning. The afternoon looks mainly dry with sunny spells. Maximum temperature 16 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Dry morning with sunny spells Thursday but cloud and rain edging east in the afternoon. Cloudy with further outbreaks of rain Friday, then showers later. Mainly dry and bright Saturday.

Starting off with something of a northwest to southeast split; higher pressure located towards the southeast should bring fine and increasingly warm conditions across at least southern UK, whilst there is a greater chance of periods of cloud, rain and stronger winds affecting the north. There will be fine weather here at times as well too however. There's a small chance that fine and very warm weather could extend right across the country early next week, but it's more likely that cloud/rain in the northwest will sink southeast introducing more changeable and cooler conditions for a time mid-week. It then becomes roughly equal chances that we see a resumption of mainly fine and dry conditions versus a continuation of more changeable weather with a mixture of rain and drier interludes.

Forecast confidence is lower than average for this range, although fairly typical for late Spring. A typical mixture of drier and settled periods, and periods of wetter and more unsettled conditions, is on balance slightly more likely than predominantly unsettled or predominantly settled. Temperatures are likely to be around average overall, with a slightly increased chance of warm or hot spells. Any such spells could be accompanied by locally heavy showers and thunderstorms.