Hampton Court Palace (Greater London) weather

Headline:

Cloudy and windy start, brighter Wednesday afternoon before evening rain.

Today:

Cloudy and windy to start. Dry for most, perhaps some patchy light rain in places. Turning brighter from the west, with some sunny spells for a time in the afternoon, and winds easing. Further rain spreads east in the evening. Maximum temperature 14 °C.

Tonight:

Rain spreading east, occasionally heavy, before turning lighter and more intermittent into the early hours. Winds increase again overnight, becoming strong at times, especially along the coast. Minimum temperature 5 °C.

Thursday:

Rather windy at times and colder on Thursday. Dry for most with some sunny spells, but isolated showers likely in the far west at times. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Friday, chilly start, milder later with some rain. Breezy. Saturday, bands of rain and showers clearing later. Winds increasing, colder later. Sunday, windy and colder with occasional heavy showers.

Likely starting off very unsettled, with blustery showers, a mix of rain, sleet, some hill snow and soft hail being driven in by a strong to gale force northwesterly wind. Southeastern areas most sheltered from these but widely feeling very cold. Gradually turning more settled through the following week, with cloud, stronger winds and outbreaks of rain increasingly becoming confined to northwest Scotland, as an area of high pressure becomes established across at least the south of the UK. It may even become settled here too, but confidence in the north/south boundary between settled and unsettled gets steadily lower through the period. Becoming widely mild, perhaps exceptionally so in some places, although clearer spells overnight may lead to localised frost and fog.

Often settled across southern areas, with fairly dry, mild, but cloudy conditions dominating overall. More unsettled further north, with majority of periods of rain, and stronger winds, affecting this region, especially northwest Scotland. Whilst colder, brighter, and potentially wintry spells cannot be ruled out, particularly early in the period, overall temperatures have a greater than normal chance of being above average.