Cragside (Northumberland) weather

Headline:

Fine, with cloud breaking to give some sunshine on Wednesday.

Today:

Western parts rather cloudy and damp at first. Brighter in the east, with cloud breaking more generally later to leave some eventual quite pleasant sunny spells after early patchy fog clears. Windy. Maximum temperature 10 °C.

Tonight:

Dry with lengthy clear spells overnight allowing a widespread frost to form.Temperatures much cooler than of late with a noticeable southwesterly wind, strong over the Pennines. Minimum temperature 1 °C.

Thursday:

Mostly dry and windy with plenty of sunshine. Cloud increasing in the west and winds freshening overnight. Maximum temperature 7 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Mostly dry with cloud breaking to give some clear or sunny spells, but also some patchy overnight frost and fog. Temperatures slowly trending downwards, becoming rather cold into the weekend.

This period is expected to see a transition, possibly lasting over several days, between the settled, dry, and often dull conditions expected over the next few days, to something more unsettled. Sunday itself is likely to be rather cloudy and cool, with outbreaks of rain in the west drifting slowly eastwards. The start of the following week will most likely see more settled conditions with light winds becoming re-established, with a chance of rain in both the far north and the far south, and a smaller chance that the rain could become more widespread. Later in the week, periods of much wetter and windier weather will most likely become more prevalent, from northwest to southeast, alternatively there is a very small chance of colder, drier, but perhaps wintry, easterly winds.

A dominant flow from the Atlantic looks likely through this period, resulting in an unsettled, milder and windier than average period. This is likely to result in areas of rain and periods of stronger winds affecting most if not all parts of the UK at times, though with the wettest and windiest weather probably occurring towards the north and west. However, the potential for brief colder spells with associated frost, ice and snow remains, following any deep lows crossing the region.