Woolacombe (Beach) (Devon) weather

Headline:

Cloud clearing to give plenty of sunny spells later.

Today:

Grey and rather cloudy at first, however skies will soon brighten up with sunny spells breaking through during the day. Feeling warm in the sunshine, and increasingly humid. Breezy for many, especially around the coasts. Maximum temperature 24 °C.

Tonight:

Plenty of late evening sunshine in the east, but becoming increasingly cloudy form the west, with a few spots of rain and drizzle across the Moors overnight. Warm and muggy. Minimum temperature 17 °C.

Saturday:

Cloudy in the southwest with a few light showers in places. Drier and brighter further east with sunny spells breaking through later in the afternoon. Warm and muggy, light winds. Maximum temperature 26 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Largely dry but increasingly warm and humid on Sunday and Monday, with plenty of sunny spells. Cooler from Tuesday with cloudier skies bringing the risk of a shower. Light winds.

A low pressure system runs near or across the northwest of the UK at the start of the period bringing some wetter, windier conditions to the northwest. Elsewhere a good deal of dry and very warm or hot weather at first, but it is possible the odd thunderstorm could develop in response to the heat before it turns cooler and fresher from the west by the middle of next week. Beyond this, conditions look like being rather changeable, with some drier spells but also some spells of rain and wind. There is also the chance of further very warm or locally hot and humid weather, as brief bursts of hotter air encroach from the continent, but probably fairly short-lived. Should these occur they bring with them the threat of thunderstorms.

Conditions will likely continue to be changeable through much of July. The wettest and windiest conditions look most likely towards the northwest with a risk of some heavy rain at times, especially over hills. Southern and eastern areas are most favoured for longer drier and more settled spells, although even here some rain or showers will be likely, perhaps heavy and thundery at times. There are signs of more widely settled weather during the second half of July, however this signal is very tentative. Temperatures are expected to be above average for most areas, especially towards the southeast where there will be an ongoing chance of some very warm or hot conditions at times.