Cockermouth (Cumbria) weather

Headline:

Windy with bright spells and scattered blustery showers.

Today:

A windy day for all, especially over the coasts and hills. Rather cloudy at first with bright or sunny spells developing along with scattered, locally heavy, blustery showers with a risk of hail. Feeling cooler than of late. Maximum temperature 17 °C.

Tonight:

Remaining windy overnight with clear spells and further scattered, blustery showers, particularly in the west. A fresher feeling night for all, but frost free. Minimum temperature 8 °C.

Monday:

A bright start, but cloud increasing through the day. Often dry with scattered showers, but persistent rain arriving from the west by evening. Windy again. Temperatures near seasonal average. Maximum temperature 17 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

A band of rain moves east through Tuesday into Wednesday with strong winds. Then breezy with bright or sunny spells and scattered showers. Temperatures near average, winds easing on Thursday.

Likely continuing changeable with further frontal systems running east into the UK bringing further spells of rain, with showery interludes in-between. Strong winds may also develop at times, particularly in the north and northwest. With time the signs are that systems will increasingly track to the northwest of the country, with the south starting to see longer, drier interludes while the northwest continues to see more in the way of rain and at times strong winds, Temperatures are expected to be slightly above average overall, but will be cooler in any prolonged periods of rainfall. Meanwhile there is the possibility of some very warm, perhaps hot conditions developing, especially in the south and these bring with them the chance of thunderstorms.

Changeable weather across the UK with a mixture of Atlantic weather systems moving in from the west interspersed with dry and sunny periods. Wetter conditions tending to be across the northwest of the UK, with the south and southeast likely to see more in the way of dry weather, Temperatures are most likely to be near normal or slightly above in the north and west, perhaps with some hot spells at times, especially across the south.