Basildon (Essex) weather

Headline:

Early rain clearing to heavy and thundery showers today. Humid.

Today:

Cloud and outbreaks of rain will erratically clear northwards during the morning, with brighter skies following. Risk of some heavy and thundery showers breaking out in the afternoon. Warmer and feeling humid, with light southerly winds. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Tonight:

Further bands of rain or showers, locally heavy, will continue to move northeastwards overnight. However, there will be some drier interludes in between the showers. Breezy and mild. Minimum temperature 14 °C.

Wednesday:

A rather cloudy start, with showers, locally heavy, continuing to move eastwards during the morning. Becoming largely dry with decent sunny spells in the afternoon. Feeling warm in sunshine. Breezy. Maximum temperature 23 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Largely fine and dry, with sunny spells Thursday. Cloudier on Friday, with a few light showers. A mixture of sunny spells and a few scattered showers Saturday. Often breezy.

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.