Fine Spell Breaking Down

The fine, dry spell is breaking down now, but despite the weather being somewhat more mixed today, there'll eventually be further intervals of warm sunshine to enjoy, particularly towards East Anglia and The South East.

It's dry at the moment, but there's a good deal of grey, misty weather this morning with patchy quite thick fog. This is mostly over The Welsh borders and central southern England, while others primarily in the West and towards the South coast are seeing spells of albeit rather hazy sunshine from the word go. The mist and low cloud will slowly lift through the morning to let the sun come through in places but may linger towards coasts of North East England and East Scotland keeping it cooler here as a result. For most eastern areas, though, it should eventually turn out to be a dry, quite pleasant early spring day, but with the small risk of catching a perhaps sharp shower later, so take a 'brolly' just in case.

There'll also be a few 'spring-like' intervals across other parts for a while, but with cloud amounts more variable than yesterday. There are already a few showers moving into the South West, and they'll spread to Wales, parts of the Midlands and North West England through the day reaching southern Scotland later, with Northern Ireland becoming wet for a while. Such is the 'hit and miss' nature of showers though that not everywhere will see them, but some could be heavy by the afternoon perhaps giving local thunder. East Scotland will have a chilly wind off the North Sea, but for most, there'll be a light or moderate southerly breeze developing later. Temperatures could reach 18 to 20C over parts of East Anglia and the South East, but top temperatures more generally of 12 to 16C will still be above normal for late March.

A storm forecast has been issued for today - click here to read it.

There'll be further scattered locally heavy showers at first into the evening, with more bursts of rain overnight. They'll be mostly over Northern Ireland and in the West but not exclusively so, with eastern areas apart from isolated showers continue to be mainly dry. It'll turn misty fairly generally with patchy mostly hill and coastal fog forming again. Skies will break in places, but most parts keep a good deal of cloud. It'll be a mild night though in a light or moderate southerly breeze, with temperatures not falling below 7 to 11C.

Wednesday remains very mild but somewhat unsettled, with the East and South East continuing to have the driest and at times brightest weather. Here it'll feel quite warm in any sunshine, but with the risk of any one place catching a shower. Elsewhere bands of cloud will bring showers or bursts of locally heavy rain, but there'll be dry, brighter intervals between, with Northern Ireland perhaps turning finer later. A light or moderate southerly wind could be fresh at times in the West, but this shouldn't prevent temperatures from reaching 12 to 16C again and perhaps a rather warm 17 or 18C over parts of East Anglia and the South East.

Further showers seem likely over Scotland, perhaps Northern Ireland and in the North and West into the evening and after dark. Across the East and South, it should become mainly dry, with skies breaking in places. Most parts have another mild night in a light or moderate southerly breeze, with minimum temperatures mostly in the range 5 to 10C.

Parts of the East and South may see temperatures reaching seventy Fahrenheit on Thursday, but cooler weather in the West giving showers spreads to most parts later in the week.