Kettering (Northamptonshire) weather

Headline:

Dry and bright by day, cloudy and damp overnight.

Today:

A cold, frosty but dry and bright start to the day, with long sunny spells. Cloud will start to build from around midday though remaining dry. Light winds to start, breezy later. Maximum temperature 6 °C.

Tonight:

Increasingly cloudy overnight with patchy outbreaks of rain arriving from the west, along with strengthening winds. Less cold than the previous night. Minimum temperature 2 °C.

Thursday:

Patchy cloud and a few lingering showers over the Derbyshire hills. Otherwise, bright with sunny intervals and winds falling light. Turning cloudy with rain arriving from the south later. Maximum temperature 7 °C.

Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Generally cloudy, with a chance of outbreaks of rain or showers, but also a few brighter spells. Light to moderate winds, with temperatures around average for the time of year.

Slow evolving weather patterns in the vicinity of the UK are most favoured through this period, with low pressure often to the west or southwest and high pressure near or over Scandinavia. Areas of rain or showers will attempt to push into some western and southwestern parts of the UK in particular, but possibly making limited eastwards progress. Longer, drier interludes are most likely in the east and northeast, though potentially rather cloudy at times. A gradual trend towards colder conditions is most likely through this period, especially in the south and east. As such, whilst wintry precipitation will be more reserved for hills initially, this may become more likely to lower levels later in the period.

Initially, slowly evolving weather patterns are most likely in the vicinity of the UK, with low pressure typically to the west or southwest and high pressure to the northeast. This configuration brings an increased chance of cold conditions affecting parts of the UK, and the associated risk of wintry hazards at times. Deeper into February, and whilst confidence is naturally rather low, there may be a transition to more widely unsettled conditions and perhaps a corresponding recovery in temperature back closer to average.