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Week Ahead 24/03/2025 – Warm when the sun shines
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24/03/2025
This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 24/03/2025 – A more settled spell midweek will be sandwiched in between something a bit wetter
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The weather through much of this week is going to be, well, pretty standard for late March.
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Yes, there will be a bit of rain at times, but in any spring, sunshine are not feeling
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too bad at all. There's currently high pressure to the southwest of the UK. That's important
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for the middle of the week. But before then, we do have a frontal system that is making
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its way southeastwards as we go through Monday night and into Tuesday. Ahead of this, we
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have some clearer weather. So overnight into Tuesday morning, perhaps a bit chilly across
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some southern parts with some clear skies, maybe even the odd pocket of fog. Across central
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areas, though, a cloudier start, some outbreaks of rain, and all of that is going to push
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its way southwards, so southern areas turning grey and a bit damp as we go through the afternoon.
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Brighter skies across much of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and later into northern parts of
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England and Wales, albeit across Orkney and Shetland, a few showery outbreaks of rain
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are quite likely here. Where we get some decent sunshine, like I say, it is going to feel
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pleasantly warm and actually generally temperatures on Tuesday around average, maybe a touch above
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for some places, mid-teens for most of us, obviously under the cloud feeling less warm
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than it will feel under the sunnier skies further north. But as we go into Wednesday,
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high pressure that I mentioned earlier is building and so we are going to see our weather
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settling down. We are going to say goodbye to the cloud and rain that pushes through
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on Tuesday and so actually Wednesday morning gets off to a fine start, albeit could be
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a bit chilly, touch of frost and also some fog, could be some thick fog in a few places
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could cause some problems on the roads. But once any fog clears away, lots of fine weather
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on offer for most of us as we go through Wednesday. Plenty of blue skies, but towards the far
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north-northwest of the UK, some rain will start to push its way in as we go through
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the afternoon. With the blue skies though away from that rain in the north-west, we
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are going to see temperatures rising even higher than on Tuesday, likely to get highs
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of around 18 or 19 Celsius, so feeling pretty warm indeed, less warm towards the north-west
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with that system making its way in. That front then is gradually going to make its way south-east
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as we go through Wednesday night and into Thursday and so a bit more rain to come for
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many places. That front is then kind of going to stool across some central parts as we go
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into Thursday itself. So a band of clouds, some outbreaks of rain lingering here, a bit
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of sunshine perhaps breaking out to the north and the south of this front, but on the whole
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quite a cloudy picture, definitely cloudier than on Wednesday. Across Scotland and Northern
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Ireland though, more wet weather feeding its way in and the winds will be picking up as
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well, turning pretty blustery with some rain making its way through. Temperatures are going
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to be down a little bit compared to Wednesday and it's going to feel less warm as well.
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More cloud around, the winds picking up especially towards the north-west and there will be a
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bit of rain on offer as well. Then as we go through Thursday and into Friday, that
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system towards the north-west again gradually makes its way south-eastwards, so rain spreading
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its way across many parts of England and Wales and so it is going to be a bit of a wet start
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first thing on Friday morning across parts of the south-east. There could be some heavier
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bursts for a time, but that then clears away and then behind it plenty of showers as we
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go through Friday. Yes, some sunny spells mixed in with those showers, but these showers
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could be a bit heavy, could be thundery at times and do watch out in the north, we could
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have some coastal gales as well, some blustery winds mixed in with those showers too. Further
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south slightly lighter winds, but a stronger breeze than we'll have seen earlier on in
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the week. The showers not as frequent down here, but nonetheless even here I am expecting
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a few showers to push through once we say goodbye to that earlier rain. Temperatures
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will be lower on Friday than we've seen through earlier on in the week, so starting to return
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closer to average for the time of year. Still not feeling too bad in the shelter from the
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breeze and in any sunny spells, but yes most of us will see some fairly frequent showers.
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Another system is then set to arrive as we go into the weekend. Before that we do have
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a brief ridge of high pressure, so there could be some fine weather around for a time first
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thing on Saturday morning. That's important because there is going to be a partial solar
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eclipse, but then another system comes through so things are going to turn wet again as we
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go through later on Saturday. That rain is then likely to push through and so by Sunday
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a good chance of high pressure building again, so that should settle the weather down at
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least for most of us. Towards the north there's a greater chance of some showers continuing.
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So yes, Saturday is looking like the wetter day of the weekend for most with high pressure
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then building for Sunday. Remember as well on Sunday morning the clocks do spring forward
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so we lose an hour of sleep, but it does mean our evenings will be markedly lighter than
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they have been recently. I'll see you again soon, bye bye.
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