Braintree (Essex) weather

Headline:

Low cloud, mist and fog patches spreading southwest overnight.

This Evening and Tonight:

A dry but largely clear evening for most. However low cloud, mist and fog patches, initially across Norfolk coasts, will soon spread south and west to affect much of the region overnight. Minimum temperature 7 °C.

Monday:

Low cloud and fog clearing through the morning to warm sunny spells. Most parts dry, however one or two heavy showers, perhaps thundery, cannot be ruled out. Eastern coasts cooler. Maximum temperature 23 °C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

Turning more unsettled, with Tuesday rather cloudy with showers, ahead of more organised heavy rain and strong winds arriving midweek, these likely easing on Thursday. Temperatures near average.

Updated: 17:00 (UTC+1) on Sun 19 May 2024

Most likely an unsettled start to the period with showers in the west and perhaps longer periods of rain in the northeast, although still some settled weather in between. Over the bank holiday weekend a band of rain likely to arrive from the west, becoming weaker as it moves east and becoming more showery in nature with scattered showers also following. Into the new week increasingly settled conditions more likely for most, though rain may threaten north-western areas whilst some southern or eastern areas occasionally less settled with showers more likely later in the period though there will be some sunshine between them, the best of this in south-western parts. Temperatures are likely to be a little above average, but some large spatial differences are likely.

Updated: 15:00 (UTC+1) on Sun 19 May 2024

Relatively weak signals for conditions to be markedly different from climatology through 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 Sun 19 May 2024