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Dry with plenty of sunshine today. Warm inland.

Today:

Overnight mist and low cloud burning off this morning to leave a dry and mostly sunny day. Some lingering cloud possible across the east. Warm in the sunshine, but cooler along the east coast. Maximum temperature 17 °C.

Tonight:

Dry this evening with some late sunshine. Then the rest of the night will be dry with mostly clear skies but some low cloud possible across the east. Patchy frost. Minimum temperature 4 °C.

Thursday:

Dry and mostly sunny although some patchy low cloud may linger along the North Sea coast. Warm, but cooler along the east coast. Maximum temperature 19 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Mainly dry, bright and warm on Friday, chance of a few showers. Cooler and and cloudier over the weekend with a chance of showers.

A mostly settled start to the period looks likely with many areas seeing a good deal of dry weather. That said we are unlikely to see a return of the completely dry and warm weather we have see in recent days, with clear or sunny periods and showers more likely. Toward the latter part of the period a trend toward more changeable weather is favoured although there should still be some drier intervals. Overall temperatures likely close to or a little below average at first, especially in the north, then returning close to average or rather warm later.

Low pressure systems are likely to dominate across the UK at the start of this period. This means showers or longer spells of rain are likely at times, heavy in places. There will, however, be some dry and warm interludes, although temperatures are likely to be close to normal overall. Later in the month, more settled and drier conditions may begin to develop, with temperatures perhaps rising slightly above normal.