Stormont Castle (County Down) weather

Headline:

Dry with some sunny spells, best in the north.

Today:

A dry day. Mostly cloudy in the south, but cloud breaking up later in the day to give some late spells of sunshine. Brighter in the north with good sunny spells. Maximum temperature 16 °C.

Tonight:

A dry evening and night with some lengthy clear spells, the best of these in the west, with patchy cloud in the east. Minimum temperature 7 °C.

Thursday:

A mostly dry day with some bright or sunny spells. However, cloud thickens later in the day with rain spreading into the west in the evening. Maximum temperature 17 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Persistent heavy rain on Friday, clearing east late in the day. Dry and bright much of Saturday, but rain overnight and for a time on Sunday.

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.