Basildon (Essex) weather

Headline:

Fine and dry with warm sunny spells. Cooler on coasts.

Today:

After a chilly start it will be another fine day with sunny spells and some fair-weather cloud. Warm inland but cooler along coasts, under the influence of a developing sea breeze. Sunshine turning increasingly hazy in the evening. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Tonight:

Cloud will thicken from the west to bring outbreaks of rain, locally heavy, overnight. Breezy and much milder than Thursday night. Minimum temperature 9 °C.

Saturday:

Cloudy with outbreaks of rain, locally heavy, clearing eastwards during the morning. Becoming brighter with showers in the afternoon. Feeling warm. Breezy. Further rain and strong winds arriving overnight. Maximum temperature 22 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Early rain clearing to leave a mixture of sunny spells and showers Sunday. Drier and brighter Monday. Further rain or showers are likely on Tuesday. Often windy. Temperatures near normal.

Likely continuing changeable with further frontal systems running east into the UK bringing further spells of rain, with showery interludes in-between. Strong winds may also develop at times, particularly in the north and northwest. With time the signs are that systems will increasingly track to the northwest of the country, with the south starting to see longer, drier interludes while the northwest continues to see more in the way of rain and at times strong winds, Temperatures are expected to be slightly above average overall, but will be cooler in any prolonged periods of rainfall. Meanwhile there is the possibility of some very warm, perhaps hot conditions developing, especially in the south and these bring with them the chance of thunderstorms.

Changeable weather across the UK with a mixture of Atlantic weather systems moving in from the west interspersed with dry and sunny periods. Wetter conditions tending to be across the northwest of the UK, with the south and southeast likely to see more in the way of dry weather, Temperatures are most likely to be near normal or slightly above in the north and west, perhaps with some hot spells at times, especially across the south.