Ilkley (West Yorkshire) weather

Headline:

Increasing cloud, becoming breezy.

Today:

A fine start to the morning with plenty of sunshine. However, this will turn increasingly cloudy through mid-morning with isolated showers developing in the afternoon, mostly confined to western hills. Becoming breezy. Maximum temperature 22 °C.

Tonight:

Variable cloud across the region overnight, with any showers mainly focused over high ground, clearing in the second half of the night. Remaining breezy. Minimum temperature 10 °C.

Friday:

Hazy sunshine for most, with patchy low cloud over hills, initially dry, although rain will gradually spread south and east, becoming heavy over high ground in the west. Strong winds. Maximum temperature 22 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Cloudy with rain turning to showers Sunday. Brightest near coasts Saturday, with more sunny spells Sunday and Monday. Breezy throughout, though winds easing slightly compared to Friday. Near average temperatures.

Likely a fairly cool and showery start to the new week. Showers will tend to focus on northern and eastern areas of the UK, while parts of the south and west again become largely dry. 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 toward 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.