George Best Belfast City Airport (County Down) weather

Headline:

Morning sunshine, then cloudier with the odd shower.

Today:

A sunny but frosty start for many. However cloud increases by midday with a few showers reaching the north coast, these mostly light but spreading inland this afternoon. Chilly. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Tonight:

A rather cloudy evening with scattered showers. Becoming drier through the night with some good clear spells developing and a patchy frost away from coasts. Minimum temperature 0 °C.

Wednesday:

A cold start with a frost in places. A dry day with plenty of sunshine in the morning. Some patchy cloud will then bubble up by afternoon. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:

Dry and largely sunny on Thursday but still chilly with an overnight frost. Mostly dry Friday once any showers clear away in the morning. Dry with sunshine on Saturday.

The weekend will continue on a cool theme, but with the high pressure to the north becoming more dominant it should lead to a reduction in shower activity seen on previous days. So there should be a good deal of dry weather with plenty of sunshine by day, but still some noticeably chilly nights with frost fairly widespread. The odd fog patch is possible in the north, and a brisk breeze across the south will make it feel notably chilly here on Saturday. Next week is likely to see a gradual transition to less settled conditions as the high likely withdraws to the east. So rain or showers at times, mostly focussed across the south, the north perhaps staying largely dry and it is also likely to become much milder.

Confidence is low, but through the remainder of March changeable weather patterns are most likely. This means periods of unsettled, wet and windy weather interspersed with some drier and brighter spells. Into early April, there may be a transition to more-frequent drier and more settled spells. Temperatures will probably be above average overall.