Saturday will see a cloudy start during the early morning, with rain in the far southeast. Showers will tend to develop over southern England, Wales and western Scotland later on, with more prolonged sunny spells also occurring as cloud clears up. Light winds for many. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the morning of 18/05/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.
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00:00 Hi there, warm sunny spells for many of us this weekend.
00:04 Showers for some and some areas of cloud to talk about as well.
00:09 Higher pressure to the west, lower pressure to the east, in between very few isobars on
00:14 the map, that means light winds.
00:16 But this weather front is just about influencing things first thing in the far south east.
00:21 Some areas of cloud for East Anglia and the south east and some outbreaks of rain.
00:25 That rain turning to showers during the morning, some heavy downpours possible across East
00:29 Anglia into London and the south east.
00:31 But later the focus for showers drifts westwards into south west England and south Wales.
00:37 Otherwise it brightens up for many, the cloud early on disappearing even across eastern
00:43 Scotland, north east England where we've got some low cloud and mist during the morning.
00:47 That tends to retreat back to the beaches as the sun warms things up.
00:51 And for much of the country it is a fine afternoon.
00:54 This chart for example shows the rainfall accumulations through six hour period up to
00:59 6pm.
01:00 And it shows the speckled nature of the showers, so where we've got white, very little rainfall
01:05 if any at all.
01:07 But some sharp showers showing up here across southern parts of the UK and as much as 50mm
01:13 or more in a few spots where the heavy showers develop.
01:16 But some uncertainty as is always the case in terms of where these showers precisely
01:21 will develop.
01:22 Some more prolonged rain through the Channel just picked up there across the Channel Islands
01:27 and northern parts of France.
01:29 That's indicative of a weather front which with its associated cloud could hinder shower
01:34 development along the south coast of the UK.
01:38 So some uncertainty in how this will play out through Saturday afternoon.
01:41 Suffice to say many places dry but there will be some heavy showers about.
01:45 Likewise for Scotland, just the central part through the Highlands, Grampians, the Trossachs,
01:49 just the chance of some showers developing.
01:52 But away from the showers, many places seeing some warm sunshine, temperatures up to 22
01:57 or 23 Celsius held back along the North Sea coast by the mistiness that will come and
02:03 go through the afternoon.
02:04 That will tend to return into Saturday night, this area of low cloud blossoming across eastern
02:09 Scotland into eastern England spreading inland.
02:12 The showers towards the south west keep going until around midnight or thereabouts and eventually
02:17 they die away as well.
02:18 So most places dry as we start off Sunday, the best of the sunshine early on will be
02:23 towards the west and under those clear skies it will be a fresh start to Sunday with temperatures
02:27 of 8 or 9 Celsius where we've got the cloud 12 or 13 Celsius.
02:32 But of course where we've got the cloud temperatures won't rise as quickly on Sunday morning so
02:36 they'll be a bit more limited along that east coast through the day and it does tend to
02:40 stay misty.
02:41 Also a bit more cloud coming into the north west of Scotland at times, perhaps some drizzle
02:45 across the north west Highlands.
02:47 Further shower development to the north of the central belt there, again hit and miss.
02:51 But the focus for showers, some sharp downpours most likely down towards the south and south
02:57 west once again.
02:58 Forming where the winds converge so in places there will be quite a number of showers developing
03:02 along the south west but other areas could well avoid them through the afternoon.
03:08 Temperatures similar to Saturday, we're looking at high teens or low 20s, feeling pleasant
03:11 in the sunshine but feeling cool along the North Sea coast where it stays misty.
03:16 Similar conditions on Monday so classic mix of sunshine and spring showers.
03:21 We'll keep you updated right here.