Thunderstorms could sweep across the capital on Monday, as temperatures are expected to reach 23C.The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for midday to 10pm on Monday, as scattered storms could lead to localised flooding and travel disruption.Storms are expected to develop throughout the day, bringing short but intense bursts of rain, along with lightning and hail.
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00:00Hello there, a very good morning to you. It is slightly mixed fortunes as we start off
00:05this new working week. A little misty along eastern coastal areas of Scotland where there
00:09is some low cloud around. This will tend to burn back as we do move throughout the day.
00:13It's wetter out towards western Scotland and parts of eastern Northern Ireland but again
00:17that rain will tend to ease as we do move throughout Monday. Generally a fine start
00:21across England and Wales, some bright and sunny spells in there but as we head later on into
00:26the morning and particularly into the afternoon we're going to see some scattered spring showers
00:30developing fairly widely. Those could develop across even as far north as northwest England
00:36into southwest Scotland throughout the day but the focus for the heaviest ones really is from
00:40London through the Midlands up into Wales. Northern coast of the west country could also see some
00:46potentially thundery downpours. Not everyone in these regions will see them. They are going to be
00:51hit and miss but where they do occur they have the potential to bring torrential downpours of rain,
00:55lightning, hail and some strong gusty winds around at times. Certainly many of us are craving some
01:01rain at this point after a very dry spring so far but because these downpours will be so torrential
01:07and very sharp they do have the potential to provide some localized flooding in places because that rain
01:12will run off very quickly on the dry ground that we have at the moment. So it's worth taking care
01:18throughout the day. If you manage to avoid them though and particularly across eastern areas where it is
01:22likely to stay dry for a good portion of the day it is going to be very warm for the time of year. Highs
01:27of 24, 25 degrees celsius cause a good portion of central and eastern England. That touch more
01:32cloud around across Northern Ireland and Scotland will keep things more around the mid to high teens
01:37here. It could take until late in the evening for these showers and thunderstorms to really ease off
01:45but eventually they will begin to die out as we head into the evening and overnight period. And certainly the
01:50second half of the night is looking largely dry for the vast majority of us. There'll be some
01:55mist developing once again cloud lingering across the far north of Scotland and low cloud again just
02:00pushing into eastern parts where that breeze is coming in off the North Sea. It's also the east that
02:04is probably likely to turn the chilliest overnight into low single figures for towns and cities and
02:09there's the small chance of some very patchy frost particularly for northeastern Scotland first thing on
02:14Tuesday morning but generally if you are further towards the west or the south it's going to be a milder
02:18affair temperatures holding up around double digit figures for most of us here. And with the dry
02:24conditions around first thing and plentiful amounts of sunshine that should be a fairly fine start to
02:30the day for most that cloud will persist across the far north of Scotland throughout the day but
02:34elsewhere not too bad at all. Some further showers and thunderstorms developing tomorrow but these
02:39are going to be much more confined towards areas of southern Wales and southwest England so fewer of us
02:44are likely to be seeing them but again where they do occur they still have the potential to be
02:49thundery with some very sharp torrential downpours. But otherwise a largely fine day for most and
02:54temperatures actually again responding to that sunshine particularly for Northern Ireland and
02:58central Scotland where we have more sunshine around tomorrow we're more likely to be seeing those
03:03values of 21 22 degrees celsius. Still across northwestern England through central areas down towards
03:09London as well there'll be mid 20 degrees celsius of values but it'll be that little bit fresher along
03:14eastern coastal areas of England now where that breeze is just a little bit more persistent to
03:18coming in off the North Sea. How is the rest of the week shaping up? Are the showers likely to return
03:24or is the sunshine going to prevail? Well we will have all the answers in our week ahead forecast that
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03:35when that is out and we'll see you again very soon. Bye bye.