Remaining settled either side of rain returning at the weekend

After Saturday’s horrendous rainfall (40-80mm) and chilly wind, our weather turned colder but thankfully drier with some decent sunny spells.

We also saw our first ground-frost of the season (grass temp -1.3°C here) with a few localised pockets of air-frost, which is not unusual for the time of year.

High pressure is in charge of our weather, but there will be a bit of a hiccup this weekend before drier weather and high pressure returns into next week.

According to local weather expert Jon Baylis, there is no sign of any significant torrential rain like we saw to start last weekend and no sign of any significant cold or warmth.

Ex-hurricane Gabrielle (later this week) will influence the Jet Stream so our weather will be hard to predict as we go into next week.

Here's Jon's latest in-depth local forecast:

Today (Thursday): Any early mist and fog clearing to a decent day.

Dry with sunny spells. A fresh easterly breeze.

Pleasantly warm in the sunshine and UV levels are still medium.

Max 19°C Min 6°C.

Friday: Sunny spells and cloud increasing later in the day.

Dry and still a little breezy.

Max 17°C Min 8°C.

Weekend: High pressure replaced by low pressure.

Saturday: Feeling cooler than recently with cloudy skies and rain coming in from the west, turning patchy later.

Max 15°C Min 8°C.

Sunday: A better day with early rain fizzling out to a day of sunny spells and a few isolated showers.

Chilly overnight.

Max 17°C Min 5°C.

Outlook: High pressure to just stay in control, albeit situated across eastern Europe.

Plenty of dry weather with sunny spells, fresh nights, and with temperatures into the mid-teens.

Later in the week turning a little cooler, but as mentioned earlier there will be a lot of uncertainty.

Follow @ChadWeather on X and Bluesky for the latest forecasts and warnings.

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