Swindon (Swindon) weather

Headline:

A wet and windy end to the weekend.

Today:

A band of rain, with prolonged or heavy downpours, spreading northeastwards throughout much of the day, bringing widespread strong winds, with gales likely. Heavy and blustery showers following later. Feeling muggy compared to recent days. Maximum temperature 18 °C.

Tonight:

Residual rain quickly clearing eastwards through the evening, with clear spells and heavy, blustery showers overnight. Remaining very windy, with gale force winds likely. Minimum temperature 12 °C.

Monday:

Strong, gale-force winds and heavy, blustery showers continue on Monday. Some brighter spells possible between the showers, and feeling cool when exposed to the wind. Maximum temperature 17 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

A brighter and drier day on Tuesday before turning wet and windy again on Wednesday. Winds easing on Thursday with sunny spells and a scattering of showers. Temperatures around average.

Likely a continuation of the unsettled theme to begin. All areas are likely to see spells of wet and windy weather followed by drier and brighter but still showery interludes. The wettest conditions expected to be across western parts of the country. There are signs that through the course of this period, drier spells will start to become more prolonged, especially across the south and east of the country due to a greater influence of high pressure. Some wet and windy spells remain probable but these potentially more focused in the northwest. Temperatures likely around average early in this period and often feeling rather cool given unsettled conditions. Increased chance of some warmer spells later in the period.

Signals for prevailing weather patterns become fairly limited by the turn of the month and the early part of October. As is typical at this time of year, there are likely to be some spells of wet and windy weather along with some drier interludes but no strong preference to whether settled or unsettled regimes will be most dominant. Overall, northwestern parts are more likely to be wettest and windiest. Temperatures likely fluctuating around average.