Whitepark Bay Youth Hostel (County Antrim) weather

Headline:

Dry and bright on Monday. Winds strengthening.

Today:

It will be a largely dry and bright day with some sunny spells. Best of the sunny spells in the morning with cloud thickening in the afternoon. Light winds at first strengthening later in the day. Maximum temperature 11 °C.

Tonight:

Cloudy in the evening with rain spreading southeastwards, which may be heavy at times. Remaining cloudy with outbreaks of lighter rain overnight and some dry spells. Winds becoming strong. Minimum temperature 6 °C.

Tuesday:

Rain clearing to the south to leave a mix of some bright intervals interspersed with blustery showers, which may be heavy at times. Strong winds at times. Maximum temperature 11 °C.

Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

Showers Wednesday, wintry at times. Mostly dry with sunny spells Thursday but rain overnight into Friday. Rain clearing to showers through Friday. Breezy with strong winds at times, lighter Thursday.

A broadly changeable pattern will continue, at least through the first part of this period, as further frontal systems move across the UK, bringing rain and stronger winds at times. Weather fronts are likely to be more active across northern areas, thus the wettest and windiest conditions are more likely here. As they come south, often running in to a ridge of higher pressure extending from the southwest, frontal systems will often be weaker and rainfall amounts smaller. In this setup, temperatures will probably pan out close to average overall, with some overnight frost where skies are clear and winds light.

High pressure will probably be dominant at the start of this period, the centre of which transferring from somewhere west or southwest of the UK to somewhere to the north of the UK. As such, plenty of dry weather seems most likely, but with changes in wind direction leading to some quite marked differences in cloud amounts and temperature from day to day. Moving further into April, there is an increasing chance that high pressure will become less dominant and thus there is a greater chance of more places seeing some rain and possible stronger winds from time to time. Overall, temperatures panning out somewhere near to average.