Strood (Medway) weather

Headline:

Rain and showers, brighter later.

Today:

Rather cloudy, with a swathe of rain interspersed with heavier and more showery bursts making gradual progress westwards. Brightening up with some sunny intervals from the east later, but with hail and thunder also possible in scattered showers. Maximum temperature 22 °C.

Tonight:

Heavy showers and thunderstorms slowly dying out later in the evening, replaced by drier weather and some clear spells. Low cloud and fog may encroach inland around the Thames Estuary. Minimum temperature 10 °C.

Sunday:

Residual showers clearing southern coastal districts early on, with low cloud, mist and fog in many areas following suit and also breaking up to reveal eventual warm sunny spells. Maximum temperature 24 °C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Mainly fine on Monday after early cloud and fog clear but otherwise becoming more showery through this period, with some eventually heavy and perhaps thundery.

Updated: 05:00 (UTC+1) on Sat 18 May 2024

There is a lot of uncertainty in this period, initially the UK will be in-between low pressure over the near continent trying to keep things unsettled and potentially thundery, and high pressure to the west or northwest which would settle things down. This likely lending itself to a period of rain or showers or even thunderstorms in places mainly in the south and east whilst more settled conditions to the northwest. Later into the period increasingly settled conditions more likely for most, though southern or eastern areas remain occasionally less settled with showers or rain though there will be some sunshine between times, the best of this in western parts. Temperatures are likely to be a little above average, but some large spatial differences are likely.

Updated: 15:00 (UTC+1) on Fri 17 May 2024

There is nothing to suggest that conditions will be massively different to climatology at the end of the current month and though the first half of June. That said, both temperatures and rainfall are more-likely to be a little above average overall, with further rain or showers (possibly heavy/thundery at times) but also some spells of warm sunshine.

Updated: 16:00 (UTC+1) on Fri 17 May 2024