St Helens (Merseyside) weather

Headline:

Dry, hot and sunny.

Today:

A hot day with early mist and fog quickly burning away, leaving clear skies and lengthy spells of strong sunshine through the afternoon. Light winds. Maximum temperature 31 °C.

Tonight:

Staying dry this evening with plenty of late sunshine. Clear skies and light winds overnight may allow some patchy mist and fog to form by dawn. Feeling warm and muggy. Minimum temperature 15 °C.

Sunday:

Temperatures a degree or two lower on Sunday, though still widely very warm and dry with sunny spells and light winds. Perhaps more cloud in the afternoon. Maximum temperature 29 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Turning more changeable next week with showers at times, these sometimes heavy and thundery. Temperatures briefly dropping back closer to the seasonal average.

Changeable weather conditions are expected across the UK during this forecast period. Periods of fine and dry weather are expected at times. These settled spells could persist for several days at a time and are likely to be accompanied by plenty of sunshine. Interspersed with this will be cloudier, more unsettled intervals which will bring some showers or longer spells of persistent rainfall. Some of the rainfall is likely to be heavy in places, with a risk thunderstorms at times as well. Temperatures are expected to be above normal for the majority of the UK throughout this period. Some hot conditions are likely to develop at times, particularly in southern and eastern areas of the UK.

Changeable conditions are expected across the UK during this period. Periods of fine and dry weather will be interspersed with more unsettled intervals bringing showers or longer spells of rain, these heavy at times. Temperatures are expected to be above normal and it could be hot at times in parts of the south and east.