Met Office Friday Afternoon Weather Forecast 09/05/2025

Met Office

09 May - national forecast presented by Alex Burkill

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00:00I have good news if you're enjoying the fine, warm, sunny weather many of us have at the moment.

00:06Less good news if you're hoping for a bit of rain.

00:08Not much of that for most of us as we go through this weekend, but there could be some heavy rain around.

00:13I'll come on to that in a second.

00:15Starting off, though, looking at our bigger picture, and we are still heavily under the influence of high pressure.

00:20That high, though, has drifted a little bit towards the east compared to earlier on in the week,

00:25and so that's changed our wind direction a little bit.

00:27It's allowed for some slightly warmer air to push its way in, so we are seeing our temperatures rising.

00:32And with that wind direction, those eastern parts, which have always felt quite a bit fresher through this week,

00:38they're starting to warm up quite nicely as well.

00:40But looking in a bit more detail as we go through this afternoon and towards the far northwest of Scotland,

00:46a bit more cloud here could be a few spots of rain.

00:49Otherwise, it's a fine picture across the board.

00:52Lots of sunshine on offer, and in that sunshine, like I said, feeling pretty warm.

00:56Temperatures are a little bit higher than they were over the rest of the week.

01:00More places getting into the high teens or low 20s, that kind of thing.

01:03And like I said, towards those eastern coastal parts, starting to feel a bit warmer than it has done recently as well.

01:10More fine weather to come as we go through this evening.

01:12Lots of sunshine to look forward to.

01:13And then a largely dry, clear night.

01:15To say largely dry, because there's always the chance of a bit of rain pushing into the far northwest of Scotland,

01:21but otherwise plenty of clear skies.

01:23And with generally light winds, although we do have that warmer air pushing in,

01:27I'm still expecting it to be a little bit of a chilly night, similar to some recent nights so far this week.

01:33And so we could see a touch of frost maybe in some prone spots and maybe a few pockets of mist and fog.

01:40Most places, though, avoiding this and staying a few degrees above freezing.

01:43Nonetheless, a bit of a fresh start to the day on Saturday.

01:46But with plenty of sunshine on offer, once the sun does come up,

01:50it's going to help lift our temperatures quite nicely, quite quickly.

01:53Like I said, always a bit of a cloud, a bit of rain perhaps towards the northwest.

01:59Otherwise, through Saturday as well, it's looking mostly fine and lots of dry, sunny weather on offer.

02:05And our temperatures are going to be even higher.

02:07A greater chance of getting into the low to mid-twenties for many places.

02:11So feeling pretty warm indeed in that sunshine.

02:14The winds aren't going to be especially strong.

02:16Just a little bit of breeze towards the northeast perhaps, but otherwise generally light winds.

02:20So adding to that relatively warm feel to things.

02:24Now as we go through later on Saturday, we do need to pay attention to some hefty showers.

02:28That are coming in from the south.

02:30Now these are likely to feed their weight northwards.

02:32Still some uncertainty as to how far these are going to spread.

02:37But do be aware, overnight, Saturday night into Sunday and then through Sunday itself,

02:41there's a reasonable chance that we could see some heavy, perhaps even thundery showers

02:45affecting parts of the southwest in particular, maybe south Wales.

02:49Like I said, some question marks as to exactly where these showers are going to be.

02:53They could be a bit more widespread both east and northwards.

02:55And also this front towards the northwest hasn't really pushed away entirely.

03:00There's the potential that some of this rain could feed into northwestern parts of Scotland

03:05as we go through Sunday as well.

03:06But actually, otherwise, away from these two areas of, well, some question marks,

03:12it's looking like a largely fine day again for most of us and pretty warm.

03:16In fact, temperatures on Sunday likely to be even higher than on Saturday.

03:19We'll have more details about what we can expect in our Weather Studio Live,

03:23which if you missed it earlier on today, you can catch up with it on our YouTube channel.

03:27See you later.

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