Great Harwood (Lancashire) weather

Headline:

Storm Amy arrives on Friday.

This Evening and Tonight:

Turning widely wet this evening as rain sweeps across the region, heavy at times, accompanied by gusty winds. Becoming drier overnight as winds ease, with clearer spells developing during the early hours. Mild. Minimum temperature 10 °C.

Friday:

Storm Amy to bring increasingly wet and windy weather with heavy rain and gales developing. A mild day despite the widespread cloud. Maximum temperature 17 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Feeling cooler on Saturday with a brisk northwesterly wind, localised gales and showers. Winds easing slightly on Sunday and Monday but with patchy rain possible around hills.

A broadly westerly pattern to start, allowing maintain relatively mild conditions, especially by night, and with frontal systems moving in from the Atlantic. These will bring further spells of rain or drizzle and strong winds at times, these more likely affecting northern and western areas, and especially windward high ground. Eastern areas generally look drier. By the following weekend (11/12 October), there is a signal for pressure to build to the west or southwest of the UK, whilst low pressure becomes more prevalent to the east. This means the bulk of the wet and at times windy weather could shift to affect more eastern areas, with the best of the dry weather towards west or southwest. Within this pattern, there is the possibility of slightly cooler conditions developing.

The latter half of October will probably see a transition to more widely unsettled conditions once more. Whether this takes the form of successive depressions moving in from the Atlantic or a rather slower evolving weather pattern remains to be seen, but there is a greater chance of more places seeing more frequent spells of rain or showers and possibly strong winds. Temperatures probably close to average overall.