Antrim (County Antrim) weather

Headline:

Mostly cloudy with a few showers today. Warm.

Today:

This morning will be cloudy with a few showers. Some brightness possible for a time this afternoon otherwise cloudy with showery rain, this turning heavy and persistent later. Rather warm and humid. Maximum temperature 20 °C.

Tonight:

Widespread heavy rain at first this evening soon clearing away. Then the rest of the night will see a few showers. Brisk west to northwesterly winds developing overnight. Minimum temperature 11 °C.

Sunday:

A cooler and fresher day with sunny intervals and scattered showers, some heavy. Brisk westerly winds. Maximum temperature 15 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Sunny intervals and showers on Monday, some longer spells of rain possible in the evening. Further rain spreading northeast on Tuesday followed by a few showers on Wednesday.

Likely continuing changeable with further frontal systems running east into the UK bringing further spells of rain, with showery interludes in-between. Strong winds may also develop at times, particularly in the north and northwest. With time the signs are that systems will increasingly track to the northwest of the country, with the south starting to see longer, drier interludes while the northwest continues to see more in the way of rain and at times strong winds, Temperatures are expected to be slightly above average overall, but will be cooler in any prolonged periods of rainfall. Meanwhile there is the possibility of some very warm, perhaps hot conditions developing, especially in the south and these bring with them the chance of thunderstorms.

Changeable weather across the UK with a mixture of Atlantic weather systems moving in from the west interspersed with dry and sunny periods. Wetter conditions tending to be across the northwest of the UK, with the south and southeast likely to see more in the way of dry weather, Temperatures are most likely to be near normal or slightly above in the north and west, perhaps with some hot spells at times, especially across the south.