Basildon (Essex) weather

Headline:

Fine and widely dry today with plenty of warm sunshine.

Today:

Extensively dry with warm sunny spells across the region. Just a very small chance of a light shower this afternoon. Winds gradually easing through the afternoon into the evening to become light and variable. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Tonight:

Skies will clear overnight with light winds, allowing temperatures to fall and the chance of mist or of patches forming around dawn. Minimum temperature 09 °C.

Friday:

Morning mist and fog patches will quickly clear to give a bright morning before turning cloudy in the afternoon with a band of rain arriving from the west overnight. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Cloudy periods with isolated showers on Saturday, lighter winds. Often cloudy Sunday but dry. A foggy start on Monday, then cloudy. Temperatures near or slightly above average.

The southern UK will likely be under the influence of high pressure for the first few days of this period. This means plenty of dry weather to be had here, albeit with some chilly nights and overnight and morning fog in places. In the north, a rather more changeable pattern will continue, with occasional rain and windy conditions at times. Broadly changeable weather patterns look to continue through mid-month, with ridges of high pressure extending from the southwest, interspersed by Atlantic frontal systems. These could be associated with quite deep and fast-moving depressions, bringing the potential for windy weather more widely, again most likely in the north. Temperatures probably near or slightly above normal overall, with day to day variations.

The second half of October will probably maintain a changeable pattern overall with showers or longer spells of rain often moving in from the Atlantic. This means the wettest and at times windiest weather is more likely in the west and northwest, and relatively drier conditions more likely towards the south and east. With a westerly type considered most likely, this would support temperatures remaining close to or a little above average overall. However, there is a chance that more slowly evolving weather patterns develop, which could either lead to longer drier spells more widely or rainfall accumulating in climatologically drier areas.