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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 28/04/2025. High pressure and sunny skies return this week, resulting in a day-by-day rise in temperatures. Bringing you this week’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.

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00:00Hello and welcome to the Met Office forecast for the week ahead. Sunshine returns widely

00:05this week and it is easily going to be the hottest week of the year so far in the UK.

00:10The jet stream pushing well to the north of the country, allowing high pressure to build

00:14in and delivering sunny skies and day by day rising temperatures. A couple of flies in

00:20the ointment, the main one being northern Scotland where we do still have a lot of cloud

00:24on Tuesday. Some light and patchy rain, although even this tends to ease away and become

00:29confined to the Northern Isles by the afternoon. So sunny skies elsewhere and those temperatures

00:36rising from the word go with highs of the low to mid 20s widely expected by the afternoon.

00:44However, make sure you cover up. Of course the sun at the moment is as strong as it is in August.

00:49High UV levels are expected in the south, moderate further north. Then going into the middle of the

00:56week, temperatures build even further with that high pressure sitting firmly in place just to

01:01the east of the UK. We're seeing this sinking air warm up as it sinks under the area of high pressure

01:07and because of the sun building heat each day temperatures are climbing. So we start off Wednesday.

01:13It will be cool in some places but quite quickly through the day temperatures will climb and we're

01:20expecting pretty much cloud-free skies across the country. Again, except for the north of Scotland where

01:25there will be some patchy cloud, chance of a shower for parts of central Scotland but otherwise it's

01:31simply a sunny day and top temperature expected to be 27 celsius. So as we go into Thursday, the first

01:40day of May, it's going to be a very warm one. These are the kinds of temperatures we could see

01:46overnight as the minimum temperatures 15 or 16 celsius in some urban areas. A very warm start to the day,

01:54an uncomfortable night for sleeping and then those temperatures having had a head start will climb

01:59even further compared with the last day of April. However, we're already starting to see something of

02:05a change across Scotland and Northern Ireland. A bit more cloud coming south, the odd shower. Odd shower

02:10possible further south as well if temperatures climb enough but the air is very dry so any showers that

02:16do form will be very isolated for the vast majority. It's going to stay dry and sunny and look at those highs.

02:23Widely into the mid to high twenties across England and Wales with a max temp most likely somewhere

02:29between Bristol and London 29 celsius and further north. It's still warm but a little less so across

02:37Scotland and Northern Ireland as the cloud starts to move southwards. This is a front which, well its

02:42position is uncertain on Friday. It's going to very erratically and slowly drift its way southwards.

02:48It's likely to be somewhere between central and southern UK. Along that front a bit more cloud

02:53and a few showers about as well but the front will also impact temperatures and because of the uncertainty

03:00with the timing as it comes south there's some uncertainty about temperatures on Friday the 2nd of

03:06May. If the front is slowed down compared to what you see on the graphics so that it's held further north

03:12then it could be just as hot across parts of England and Wales compared with Thursday but most likely it

03:19will be coming south through the day and temperatures will be knocked a couple of degrees off compared

03:25with Thursday's high. And certainly further north cloudier skies a cooler feel compared with earlier in

03:31the week. So one or two showers about on Friday because of that weather front but actually again for the vast majority it is dry

03:38and as we go into the bank holiday weekend regardless of the timings of that front it looks likely that

03:43high pressure will start to drift further north west allowing cooler air to drift southwards slowly and so

03:50certainly a different feel on Saturday, Sunday into Monday. I think a bit more cloud around, lower temperatures back

03:57towards average for the time of year and one or two showers are possible during the bank holiday weekend

04:03but that high is still close by and so it's certainly not going to be an unsettled weekend for the vast

04:09majority it's going to stay fine even if it is not quite as warm as it will be as we go through April

04:15and into May. So we'll have the very latest on that of course through the next few days you can stay up to date with

04:22the Met Office on YouTube.

Week Ahead 28/04/2025 – Sunny skies return – Met Office weather forecast UK

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