Basildon (Essex) weather

Headline:

Cloudy with rain overnight.

This Evening and Tonight:

Cloud and outbreaks of rain, locally heavy, will spread erratically northwards across all parts overnight. The rain turning more showery by dawn. A milder night. Freshening winds. Minimum temperature 13 °C.

Tuesday:

Cloud and rain, locally heavy, clearing northwards during the morning. Brighter skies following for a time with further outbreaks of rain or some heavy, possibly thundery, showers. Rather humid. Breezy. Maximum temperature 20 °C.

Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:

Staying unsettled, with sunny spells and showers Wednesday. Largely dry with sunny spells on Thursday. A band of showery rain sinks south on Friday. Often breezy and rather cool.

Into the weekend conditions will be mostly cool to average with some showers at times, most settled in the north west but increasingly showery to the southeast with a low risk of a more humid and thundery plume affecting eastern areas at first. The first part of the new week likely to see a mostly showery westerly breeze establish allowing temperatures to recover to around or just above average, feeling warm in sunnier periods outside of showers/heavy showers or thunderstorms, with a more settled spell to the southwest mid-week possibly spreading to much of the UK, though this likely only brief before a more showery northwest flow resumes. Winds after the weekend will be mostly light to moderate, though gusty conditions near heavy showers and thunderstorms remains likely.

As can often be the case at this time of year, predictability at this range is low. There are some signs of a slightly greater than normal chance of a more prolonged settled spell developing at some point during the period, at least for a time, and perhaps more likely in the south. However, by the same token further, perhaps shorter, unsettled interludes are probable too. Above average temperatures overall, and drier than average conditions overall, are very slightly favoured.