Amesbury (Wiltshire) weather

Headline:

Largely dry weekend with bright or sunny spells.

Today:

Cold start as mist clears. Cloud building through the day, though some sunny spells still emerging during the afternoon. A few light showers, but many places staying dry. Breezy. Maximum temperature 9 °C.

Tonight:

Remaining dry throughout the evening and overnight prolonged clear intervals and variable cloud. Turning chilly underneath the clearest skies with areas of frost developing. Minimum temperature -3 °C.

Sunday:

Sunny to begin but cloud building as the day progresses. Mostly dry with an outside chance of a shower. Feeling rather cool under cloud cover and still breezy. Maximum temperature 9 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Rather cloudy on Monday but staying mostly dry. Brighter on Tuesday and Wednesday with increasing amounts of sunshine. Chilly to begin, turning milder later. Often breezy.

High pressure is expected to be centred to the east of the UK initially, with a good deal of fine, dry and reasonably sunny weather in a south to southeasterly flow. Temperatures are expected to rise, to well above average in some areas. Later in the week there will likely be a gradual transition to less settled conditions from west to east, as low pressure becomes more dominant with an increasing chance of rain or showers by the weekend and into the final week of March, perhaps heavy in places. Temperatures, initially above average, will likely trend back closer to normal, although with more cloud this will tend to reduce the risk of frost to an extent.

Confidence is naturally rather low, but blocked patterns are generally more favoured for the end of March and first part of April. This can lead to slow-moving areas of low and high pressure, and depending on their location can result in extended periods of either dry conditions or, perhaps more likely, wetter episodes in the form of rain or showers. Either way, whilst temperatures overall may be near average, given the time of year this type of regime tends to increase the chance of periods of below average temperatures at times.