After a dry and sunny end to September and a fine start to October too, it still feels a bit more like summer than autumn, but there's a change on the way!
It will be a chilly start on Friday with temperatures falling between just 3°C and 6°C for towns across mid Wales. It will be even colder in the countryside, so you can expect to see a ground frost first thing. There will also be mist and fog which could take a bit longer to clear on Friday as the winds will be light. Once it does however, it will be another fine day with plenty of sunshine and a light easterly breeze in the south. It won’t be as mild as recent days, with highs of 13°C in Wrexham and 16°C in Swansea.
The weather is staying settled into the weekend thanks to a big area of high pressure, keeping weather fronts to the north and west of the UK at bay. This ensures the weather will remain fine into to the weekend.
It’ll be another dry day Saturday; we can expect to see a bit more cloud around, but still some sunshine and light winds. Temperatures will fall in the mid-teens; 13-16°C.
Sunday looks to be fine and dry. This is great news for the 23,000 runners eagerly weather-watching for the Cardiff half-marathon, myself included! It’ll be a chilly start, but a fine and dry day with sunny spells, and a little more cloud around than recent days. Good news for runners! It's the same story across the rest of Wales on Sunday; it should be fine with sunny spells and highs of around 13-18°C.
BBC pressure chart for sunday 4 October
Signs indicate that the high pressure starts to break down and drift eastwards by the end of the weekend and weather fronts which have been lingering to the north and west start to push in from the Atlantic and making inroads by Monday. The weekend will remain fine, settled and a bit cloudier. Once that high pressure clears eastwards we should see a change into more unsettled weather next week, with the return of some rain and stronger winds.
The tides were higher than usual this week, thanks to the gravitational pull caused by the supermoon's alignment with the Sun and the Earth. Take a look at this photo from Jane John taken at the River Neath during high tide in Briton Ferry near Swansea.
River Neath at Briton Ferry taken by Jane John
