Swaythling (Southampton) weather

Headline:

Overnight rain dying out during Wednesday. Brighter later.

Today:

Cloudy and wet to start across eastern areas, drier further west. The rain should ease and become more showery, with cloud breaks developing to reveal some warm brighter spells later. Light winds. Maximum temperature 16 °C.

Tonight:

Mostly cloudy overnight with clear spells across western areas at first. Some light drizzle in places otherwise staying dry with light winds. Minimum temperature 6 °C.

Thursday:

Thursday morning probably starting dull and cloudy. Cloud thinning and breaking to bright or sunny spells in afternoon. Cool and cloudier near some coasts. A fine evening for most. Maximum temperature 18 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Friday bright for many with some sunshine. Some showery rain likely by Saturday morning otherwise bright for some areas. Sunday fine with sunny spells. Temperatures near or above average.

Starting off with something of a northwest to southeast split; higher pressure located towards the southeast should bring fine and increasingly warm conditions across at least southern UK, whilst there is a greater chance of periods of cloud, rain and stronger winds affecting the north. There will be fine weather here at times as well too however. There's a small chance that fine and very warm weather could extend right across the country early next week, but it's more likely that cloud/rain in the northwest will sink southeast introducing more changeable and cooler conditions for a time mid-week. It then becomes roughly equal chances that we see a resumption of mainly fine and dry conditions versus a continuation of more changeable weather with a mixture of rain and drier interludes.

Forecast confidence is lower than average for this range, although fairly typical for late Spring. A typical mixture of drier and settled periods, and periods of wetter and more unsettled conditions, is on balance slightly more likely than predominantly unsettled or predominantly settled. Temperatures are likely to be around average overall, with a slightly increased chance of warm or hot spells. Any such spells could be accompanied by locally heavy showers and thunderstorms.