Thundersley (Essex) weather

Headline:

A fine but windy day with long sunny spells.

Today:

A dry day with long sunny spells and increasingly strong easterly winds, with a chance of coastal gales. Warm inland but cooler along eastern coasts. Maximum temperature 18 °C.

Tonight:

A dry evening with some late sunny spells, though remaining windy. A mostly clear night will follow, becoming cool with a brisk breeze. Minimum temperature 6 °C.

Thursday:

Another day of long sunny spells. Windy, though less so inland than on Wednesday, with strongest winds near coasts. Warm, but feeling cooler in exposed areas and along eastern coasts. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Friday, patchy cloud and sunny intervals, very warm, chance of showers. Cloudy Saturday and Sunday, risk of rain or showers, sometimes heavy. Cooler with generally light winds.

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.