Slack Side (West Yorkshire) weather

Headline:

Increasingly cloudy with a chance of drizzle.

This Evening and Tonight:

A bright start in western parts, then cloud spreading back inland again through the evening and overnight, perhaps thick enough to give the odd spot of drizzle in places, with some hill fog patches. Winds generally light. Minimum temperature 13 °C.

Tuesday:

Similar to Monday with the best of developing brighter spells in the west. A band of scattered light showers is likely to move southwards later, accompanied by an increasing breeze. Maximum temperature 20 °C.

Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

Often cloudier, cooler and breezier near the coast, with the best of brighter conditions inland. Largely dry, although scattered light coastal showers possible Thursday. Feeling warmer Friday with lighter winds.

High pressure is likely to be the dominant feature at first, bringing widely fine and dry weather whilst an on-shore flow leads to rather cool conditions in parts of the north east. Whilst this is happening a deep area of low pressure is likely to develop in the North Atlantic. This is linked to Hurricane Erin, which is expected to start to bring a change in weather to the UK, though the timing of this is uncertain. From early to mid-week, high pressure may become increasingly eroded from the west as low pressure and frontal systems start to move in from the Atlantic, leading to more changeable conditions with spells of rain through the remainder of the week. Temperatures likely warm or very warm to start before trending towards average.

Confidence in the details through this period is low. However, low pressure and therefore unsettled or changeable weather looks more likely. There will be the potential for periods of stronger winds at times as well. Whether this takes the form of further low pressure systems running in from the Atlantic, or a more slowly evolving weather pattern with the potential for heavy showers is less clear. Temperatures are likely to be near to, or slightly above average overall.