Saturday
Weather
A simple sunny forecast, with the only detail being the force 3 ESE’ly breeze, which means that the west coast will be the most sheltered coast and therefore the warmest. The UV index will be a5 around lunchtime, so you might want to slap a little sun-cream on if you are outdoors around that time of day.The max temperature will be about 13-14°C, making it 1-2 degrees warmer than Good Friday. Likewise, the night time temperature will be a little higher, with a minimum of about 7-8°C.
Surf and the Water
Super-clean 2-3 foot surf, which will obviously be best in the morning and the evening, given that the tides will be high just before 9am and just after 9pm (9.1m and 9m respectively). Swimming conditions will also be best along the west coast.
Easter Sunday
Weather
Warmer air will waft over the islands, taking us to a top temperature of about 15°C in the afternoon (that’s 1-2 degrees higher than the previous day). However, the high cirrus cloud will make the sunshine quite week in the morning, and it might thicken up enough by late afternoon to turn the sky quite grey. That, coupled with a little more wind (force 4 SSE’ly), will probably mean that Easter Sunday feels pretty equal to Easter Saturday.
Surf and the Water
Beautifully clean 3 foot surf, favouring the morning and the evening again, with the tides peaking around 8.9m at 9:20am and 9:40pm. Swimming conditions will not only be great along the west coast, but also the north coast.
Bank Holiday Monday
Weather
After a mild night (min temps of 9-10°C under a blanket of cloud). We will wake up to some rain and drizzle. However, by late morning or lunchtime, the force 4-5 WSW’ly will have whipped the wet stuff away, leaving us with bright and breezy conditions and only the smallest probability of any further showers. To escape the wind and salvage something that remotely resembles the finer weather of the weekend, then the southeast will definitely be the best part of the island to hang out.
Surf and the Water
The surf will go from 2 feet and fairly clean early morning, to 5 feet and messy by the evening. However, whilst the surf quality is deteriorating, the windsurfing and kite-surfing conditions will be vastly improving. If you’re a daily sea swimmer, then this will obviously be the worst day of the long weekend for you, but you should still find some nice smooth water at the likes of Fermain and Havelet around high tide (8.7m at 10am).
The Rest of Next Week
Weather
Tuesday will be the flip-around of Monday, with the dry and bright conditions coming in the first half of the day and then the descent into cloud and rain coming in the second. The daytime won’t be particularly windy (just a moderate force 4 SSW’ly), but the night time will get a bit rattly as a strong force 6 WSW’ly get’s going, maybe even touching force 7 at times through the second half of the night and on Wednesday morning. The weather through Wednesday and Thursday will simply be an alternation of sunshine and showers, whilst the WSW’ly wind very slowly simmers down to fresh force 5. After that, Friday currently looks like roughest day of the week, as a very wet and windy depression sweeps across Southern Britain. So yes it does seem like a pretty rotten week weather-wise, but it will at least be on the mild side with daily maxima of 12-13°C and nightly minima of 9-10°C.
Surf and the Water
Swimming conditions will always be best in the most sheltered east coast bays around high tide. The surf will range between about 4 feet at its smallest to 8 feet at its biggest, pulsing between strong swells with semi-clean cross-shore winds at times, and just general choppy conditions at other times. The tidal movements will be medium-sized at the start of the week, becoming very small by the end of the week… the times of high water gradually shifting from the late mornings to the early afternoons.
The next forecast update will be on Bank Holiday Monday…
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