Butterknowle (Durham) weather

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Becoming widely sunny and warm again today.

Today:

Dry with any early cloud soon clearing to leave a fine day with prolonged sunshine for most. Feeling generally warm inland, although notably cooler at the coast given a strengthening onshore breeze and potential for rather persistent low cloud. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Tonight:

Plenty of sunshine early this evening although patchy coastal cloud gradually spreading inland. More widely cloudy for a time overnight with some patchy rain, clearing by dawn. Minimum temperature 7 °C.

Thursday:

Another mostly sunny day, although patchy cloud and isolated showers could affect coastal parts during the morning. Rather warm with mainly light winds inland, but stronger towards cooler coastal areas. Maximum temperature 15 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Fine Friday with plenty of sunshine after a chilly start. Breezier this weekend with occasional rain or showers although still often dry and bright by day. Rather warm overall.

A much more unsettled period than of late with the whole of the UK likely to see showers or some longer spells of rain, but also some drier and brighter interludes. For Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday it's likely a story of sunshine and showers. The showers will be heavier and more frequent in the west where it may also be windy, especially across the northwest. The east, especially the southeast may well see a good deal of dry weather. The rest of the week then sees further frontal systems run into the UK, bringing more widespread rain at times, but again some drier spells in-between these. Temperatures will probably be close to average, perhaps slightly above at times, but will feel fairly cool in the often strong winds.

Changeable weather conditions are expected as we head into June although with time a trend toward longer settled spells seems likely. So spells of wet weather with showers or longer spells of rain are likely to be interspersed with drier, sunnier periods these drier periods may become more prevalent as we had further into June. Overall, it will likely be wetter in the west and drier in the east. Temperatures will probably average out around normal, although some very warm or even hot spells are still possible, as normal for the time of year.