Weekend Weather 25/04/2024 – Rain for some - Met Office UK Forecast

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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the weekend, dated 25/04/2024

Rain and showers will move into southern areas throughout Saturday, further north it will be a cold start but there will be plenty of dry weather around. On Sunday heavy rain is expected in the south and east, but the north and west could remain largely dry with some sunshine.

Bringing you this weekend’s weather forecast is Annie Shuttleworth.

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00:00Hello, welcome to your latest weekend weather forecast. It is going to turn a little bit

00:04more unsettled with rain arriving for southern areas, but actually across the north and west

00:09it could remain largely dry through this weekend. Now through Saturday we see this low pressure

00:14start to arrive. It brings this initial feature that's just a showery band of rain through

00:19Saturday and then it's Sunday when the main feature arrives. It's likely to push up to

00:23the north and east of the UK, bringing the heaviest rain to more eastern areas. There

00:27is still some uncertainty in the track of this area of low pressure. It will push off

00:32to the north and east by Sunday evening, but where exactly it moves into on Saturday night

00:38and into Sunday is still uncertain. More on that in a moment, but what we do know is that

00:43this area of low pressure will introduce milder air, so temperatures will be returning much

00:47closer to average after a fairly cool week, particularly across southern areas. But we

00:52still start the day on Saturday with a cold start. We could see temperatures down as low

00:56as minus four for parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland, which is fairly cold for the

01:00time of year, so there's potential for a frost for many northern and western areas. But it's

01:05already starting to turn milder across the south as this area of showery rain arrives

01:10into the south coast. That will push into the Midlands, probably into parts of Wales

01:13through Saturday. It's going to bring a lot of cloud around with it, but the heaviest

01:17rain will be more restricted to southern areas through Saturday. As in the afternoon, in

01:21any sunny spells, we could potentially see some heavy, possibly thundery downpours. In

01:27the north, after a cold and bright start, cloud will bubble up through the day. We could

01:30see a few showers developing, particularly across coastal areas, and it's going to still

01:34feel fairly cool. So these showers could still fall as snow just over the high ground of

01:39Scotland. Still a cold field, temperatures still below average, particularly for Northern

01:43Ireland and Scotland, as well as under all this cloud and rain in parts of the Midlands.

01:47But it's already starting to feel a little bit milder by the end of Saturday across

01:51the south. These are much closer to average temperatures. Average temperatures are closer

01:54to 15 or 16 degrees across southern areas. Now, the band of cloud and rain will tend

02:00to fizzle away through Saturday night. And then if we look further south, this area of

02:04low pressure brings the large swathe of rain to eastern areas through Saturday night, and

02:10that will likely sit in these areas through the morning. However, as I said, there is

02:13some uncertainty with the position of this. Now, there is the possibility that this area

02:17of rain could be slightly further west. It could be as far west as parts of eastern Wales,

02:22as well as eastern areas of Scotland through Sunday. So some of these areas in between

02:27parts of northeastern England, central areas, parts of the south coast could still see that

02:32wetter start to the day and some heavier rain. But to the west of wherever that rain lies,

02:37most likely across Northern Ireland and Scotland. Once again, it's going to be another cold

02:41start on Sunday, and that clearer, colder weather could spread as far east as much of

02:46Wales and parts of southwest England as well. And this area of rain that could turn particularly

02:53heavy through the day will likely pivot and sit around eastern areas for much of the morning

02:58before it slowly starts to edge away into the afternoon. So as the day goes on, it's

03:02likely to turn that much brighter from the west. And we'll see a mix of sunny spells,

03:07potentially the odd shower, but the showers should be fairly light. So certainly turn

03:10better through the day and with more in the way of sunshine and that milder air, temperatures

03:16are going to be much closer to where they should be for this time of year. Temperatures

03:20around 11 or 12 degrees quite widely. And those temperatures will continue to rise into

03:25the start of next week as we pick up more of a southerly wind, temperatures climbing

03:29as high as the high teens, possibly the low 20s for the middle of next week. Keep up to

03:35date with all the details throughout the rest of the weekend. And you can do that by subscribing

03:39to our YouTube channel. Bye bye.

Weekend Weather 25/04/2024 – Rain for some - Met Office UK Forecast

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