UK weather

Headline:

Winds and showers easing tonight. Turning chilly.

This Evening and Tonight:

Showers becoming lighter, fewer and further between overnight, mainly affecting western areas. Drier with clear spells widely, allowing a colder night than of late with some mist or fog patches.

Sunday:

A chilly but fine start for many, with isolated showers dying away to leave sunny spells. Becoming cloudier from the southwest, with winds increasing ahead of rain later.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Continuing changeable and often windy, with spells of rain and showers moving across the UK, interspersed with drier interludes. Cool at first, exacerbated by the wind, but becoming much milder.

The weather is expected to remain changeable. Low pressure systems will continue to run across the North Atlantic, often to the north and northwest of the UK, bringing occasional bands of rain and strong winds, interspersed with brighter and more showery conditions. Rain will be most prevalent across hills in the west and northwest, where above average rainfall is likely through this period. Longer drier interludes are more favoured in southern and eastern parts, but even here there will probably be more rain over the period compared to recent weeks. Whilst brief cooler interludes and early morning frosts are possible, temperatures are likely to be a little above normal in many areas for the period as a whole, and potentially quite mild at times during wetter and windier spells.

The rest of October and early November will probably maintain a changeable pattern overall, with areas of low pressure often passing close to, if not across, the UK from the North Atlantic. Showers or longer spells of rain are likely at times, with the wettest and windiest weather typically in the west and northwest, with drier conditions favoured in southern and eastern parts. A trend to more widely unsettled conditions is possible into November. Whilst some occasional colder interludes will be possible at times, temperatures are likely to be near or a little above average for the period as a whole.