Hitchin (Hertfordshire) weather

Headline:

A sunny start with increasing fair weather cloud.

Today:

A sunny start to the day with scattered fair weather cloud developing through the day. Staying dry throughout with a gentle breeze developing by the afternoon. Maximum temperature 25 °C.

Tonight:

A dry and largely clear night with variable high cloud moving in from the west after midnight. Temperatures near average. Minimum temperature 11 °C.

Friday:

Hazy sunshine across the region, staying largely dry and often warm. Winds increase into the afternoon, with rain expected into the evening and overnight. Maximum temperature 27 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Mostly dry with sunny spells Saturday, feeling warm in sunshine and rather humid. Sunny spells and scattered showers Sunday and perhaps heavy on Monday, although feeling fresher. Often breezy throughout.

Likely a fairly cool and showery start to the new week. Showers will tend to focus on northern and eastern areas of the UK, while parts of the south and west again become largely dry. Through the rest of the week any rain will tend to focus on the north or northwest of the country, with the south becoming predominantly dry. Temperatures are likely to remain close to, perhaps a little below average initially. However toward the following weekend there are signs that temperatures will begin to trend up, becoming warm or very warm once again, especially across southern parts of the UK, but perhaps more widely as we head toward the middle of July.

Changeable conditions with a predominantly northwest to southeast split in temperature and rainfall, and the potential for further occasional episodes of hot weather and thundery outbreaks, are considered likely to gradually give way to something more settled and dry overall through the second half of July. Temperatures are likely to be above average, with the greatest chance of very warm or hot spells in the south or southeast.