Porthcawl - Rest Bay (Beach) (Bridgend) weather

Headline:

Bright or sunny spells developing this afternoon.

Today:

A rather cloudy morning with a few spots of rain across the mountains. Becoming brighter into the afternoon, with sunny spells becoming more prolonged. Feeling warm in the sunshine, and increasingly humid. Breezy, especially along northwestern coasts. Maximum temperature 23 °C.

Tonight:

Cloud spilling in from the west this evening brings outbreaks of rain and drizzle across western hills overnight. Winds easing especially in the south, but remaining warm and muggy. Minimum temperature 17 °C.

Saturday:

Muggy and overcast with further spells of rain and drizzle across the mountains. Some dry intervals too, with winds easing. Warm and feeling muggy for all. Maximum temperature 25 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Drier though still rather cloudy on Sunday, before sunshine breaks through on Monday. Very warm and muggy with light winds. Cloudier and cooler from Tuesday with scattered showers at times.

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.