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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the weekend 18/04/2024.   High pressure arrives this weekend bringing plenty of fine weather. After a sunny start, however, it will turn a little cloudier with patchy rain for some. Bringing you this weekend’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.

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00:00 Hello, surprise surprise it's going to be a mostly fine weekend. The key word there

00:06 is mostly, it's not going to be entirely hot and sunny the whole time but it will be a

00:10 lot more settled compared with recent months of wet weather. High pressure returns at last

00:16 having been largely absent since January and that high pressure leading to clear skies

00:22 for many of us as we begin Saturday. But gardeners beware, it will be a chilly start to Saturday.

00:27 These are the temperatures in urban areas but in rural sheltered locations could see

00:32 a touch of frost. But those temperatures will rise quickly because of the sunny skies up

00:39 and out of the country. Clear blue skies for many of us throughout the morning leading

00:44 to those rapidly warming temperatures and light winds as well compared with recent days

00:50 and weeks. Now there will be some cloud cover building by the afternoon, difficult to pinpoint

00:57 exactly where will be cloudiest but generally across central and northern parts we're going

01:03 to see a bit more cloud arriving into the afternoon and certainly to the north of the

01:09 central belt some outbreaks of rain push in because of a weak weather front. Mostly this

01:14 is light and patchy rain or drizzle. Elsewhere it's going to be dry and with the light winds

01:20 and the sunny spells continuing into the afternoon regardless of what the temperatures say it

01:25 is going to feel very pleasant indeed. The sun of course at the moment is as strong as

01:30 it is at the end of August so if you're in any of that prolonged sunshine take that into

01:35 account to make sure you do protect yourselves. High pressure slap bang over the UK as we

01:39 end Saturday and go into Sunday but these weather fronts to the north dangling their

01:44 influence into parts of northern and eventually central parts of the UK. So a finger of rain

01:50 perhaps extending from the Northern Isles into eastern Scotland, north east England

01:54 into the Midlands during the morning on Sunday. It could even bring a few light showers to

02:00 London and the south east, perhaps central southern England before returning westwards

02:05 into east Wales for example and generally petering out. But I think greyer skies through

02:11 this central swathe compared with Saturday a chance of some light and patchy rain for

02:17 a time. Sunnier conditions return to east Anglia and the south east and actually with

02:23 the temperatures in mind as well it's looking like very good conditions for the London Marathon.

02:29 Not too warm, some sunshine later on but not too sunny and mostly dry aside from the chance

02:36 of the odd spot of rain during the morning. Further west we'll keep some sunny spells

02:41 through the morning across Northern Ireland, western parts of Wales and the south west

02:44 but turns a bit cloudy at later on and it's towards the north west where we'll see the

02:48 highest temperatures 16 or 17 Celsius possible for western Scotland, western parts of England.

02:53 Northern Ireland into next week, higher pressure retains its influence but tends to move to

02:59 the north west and so there's always a chance of showers coming in to the east and south

03:04 at times. We'll keep you updated right here at the Met Office.

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Weekend weather 18/04/2024 – High pressure finally arrives – Met Office weather forecast UK

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