Bishop's Waltham (Hampshire) weather

Headline:

Fine and dry today with plenty of warm sunshine.

Today:

Dry with warm sunny spells across the region and patchy fair weather cloud. Winds gradually easing through the afternoon into the evening to become light and variable. Maximum temperature 22 °C.

Tonight:

Skies will clear overnight with light winds, allowing temperatures to fall and the chance of mist or of patches forming around dawn. Minimum temperature 08 °C.

Friday:

Morning mist and fog patches will quickly clear to give a bright morning before turning cloudy in the afternoon with a band of rain arriving from the west overnight. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Cloudy periods with isolated showers on Saturday, lighter winds. Often cloudy Sunday but dry. A foggy start on Monday, then cloudy. Temperatures near or slightly above average.

A band of cloud and increasingly patchy rain will likely come south early in the period with a ridge of high pressure then bringing a spell of mostly dry and fresher conditions, some chilly nights possible. Broadly changeable weather patterns look to continue through to the middle of October with areas of low pressure most likely to pass to the northwest of the UK with higher pressure across the south. So further rain and strong winds at times, mainly focused across the northwest, while southern areas see more in the way of dry weather. Temperatures close to or rather above average on the whole, but still scope for some unseasonably warm weather across the south.

The second half of October will probably maintain a changeable pattern overall with showers or longer spells of rain often moving in from the Atlantic. This means the wettest and at times windiest weather is more likely in the west and northwest, and relatively drier conditions more likely towards the south and east. With a westerly type considered most likely, this would support temperatures remaining close to or a little above average overall. However, there is a chance that more slowly evolving weather patterns develop, which could either lead to longer drier spells more widely or rainfall accumulating in climatologically drier areas.