Templepatrick (County Antrim) weather

Headline:

Sunday cloudy, occasional rain, sunnier later.

This Evening and Tonight:

A cloudy evening with outbreaks of rain, some may be heavy at times. Remaining cloudy through the rest of the night with the risk of further rain. Minimum temperature 14 °C.

Sunday:

A rather cloudy day with occasional mostly light rain, but the odd heavier burst. Conditions will turn drier from the north later with some sunshine developing. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Mainly dry, bright and increasingly warm or very warm during this period, with variable amounts of cloud and some hazy sunny spells. Chance of a few showers on Wednesday.

Something of a north to south split to start the period. Some rain or showers are likely in the north whilst it will be predominantly dry, sunny and hot in the south. The heat in the south will likely ease into next weekend but probably remain a little above average. Further into August high pressure will likely become more widely dominant leading to settled conditions for most. There are signs that low pressure systems or thundery interludes will interrupt this at times, but rainfall amounts will probably be variable, with some areas continuing to see relatively little. Temperatures are likely to remain above average, with a chance of a return of the hot conditions seen earlier in the period.

The broad theme of high pressure remaining in place at least close to the UK seems most probable, but with occasional more unsettled or changeable interludes. These interludes will either be the result of Atlantic frontal systems moving east or thundery plumes possibly drifting north from the continent. The broadly settled conditions mean that rainfall amounts overall are more likely to be below normal than above. Temperatures will probably be above average and some spells of hot weather and heatwaves are possible, especially in the south.