Ill Bell (Cumbria) weather

Headline:

Turning cloudier and breezier.

This Evening and Tonight:

A cloudy evening for many, bringing showers with it for Cumbria that may be heavy at times. Turning mostly dry overnight with a few clear spells breaking through at times, though some cloud lingering as fog across the higher ground. Minimum temperature 10 °C.

Friday:

Early brightness quickly disappearing as cloud builds. Rain arriving from the north in the afternoon, locally heavy by the evening. Increasingly breezy for all, though especially around coasts and hills. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

A breezy weekend with spells of rain or showers. Feeling humid on Saturday but fresher on Sunday with some brighter breaks possible. Showers easing on Monday with sunny spells emerging.

Likely a fairly cool start to the period with a few showers still to clear from the east, but for most it should become fine and dry, although some chilly mornings are possible. 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 through the second half of the week and especially 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.