Sunday 22nd March 2026

Hello from Tangier in Morocco! Warmer but not sunnier than back home, with more pleasant weather to come at times – until a cold blast mid-week next week.

Hotel wi-fi isn’t amazing, so there isn’t as much research as usual gone into this, and I may well get annoyed and quit, but we’ll see how we get on.

Thanks to Fiona for the photograph.

The general picture sees high pressure in control – two main areas, one over eastern Europe and one to the west of the Azores – linking up over the UK. That link will be broken by midweek.

Any mist/fog patches will quickly clear this morning to leave increasingly hazy sunshine for the rest of the morning. Thicker cloud this afternoon as a very weak weather front crosses, still some brightness, perhaps a spot of light rain. Around 13’C. Fairly cloudy overnight, down to around 3’C.

Monday will be a pleasant day with broadly speaking hazy sunshine all day, sometimes quite clear skies, sometimes cloudier. Around 15’C. Fairly cloudy overnight, down to around 7’C.

Tuesday starts bright but cloud will continue to thicken during the day. Around 12’C, breezy – verging on quite windy. A band of rain crossing in the evening, clear skies follow – with colder air. Down to around 3’C.

For Wednesday we see a notably colder air mass having spread down from the north-west.

Sunny spells and scattered showers will be the theme, some of them heavy, most likely of rain but some kind of wintry mix possible if you get a notably heavy shower in the afternoon. Quite windy, gusty in showers – around 9’C but dropping in said showers. Clear skies overnight, probably still too breezy for a frost but a close call, down to around 1’C.

Thursday will see sunny spells, variable amounts of cloud – a small chance of an afternoon shower. Still feeling pretty cold in the northerly breeze, around 9’C. Clear skies and chilly at first overnight, though clouding over from the west with some light rain – down to around 2’C.

Friday roughly looks like a cloudy day with some light rain at times – some uncertainty on exact details. Around 12’C or so.

High pressure looks like it will try to build next weekend, but also some weak weather fronts around – so likely a bit of a mixture of cloud, some sunny spells and some light/moderate showery rain at times. Temperatures somewhere between 10’C and 13’C most likely.

Perhaps another blast of colder air for the week after…broadly speaking drier than normal conditions likely to persist to mid-April, but temperatures and sunshine amounts will depend on exactly where high pressure is.

Right I need to go get ready for my day trip to Chefchaouen…known as the “blue city”. Fingers crossed it stays dry! Have a pleasand Sunday.