Met Office Friday Evening Weather Forecast 16/05/2025

Met Office

16 May - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

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00:00Hi there. It's amazing the difference a thin layer of low cloud can make to how the weather feels.

00:05We certainly saw that on Thursday with the UK divided into two areas of cloudy skies on one hand,

00:11sunny and warm weather on the other.

00:13And we'll see a similar theme emerge overnight and into the start of the weekend,

00:18an area of low cloud emerging from the North Sea and spreading widely across central

00:23as well as southern and eastern parts of the UK.

00:26It could reach as far as East Wales, parts of Dorset, Somerset perhaps,

00:32and it's certainly going to be extensive through the Midlands and eastern England,

00:36breaking up over the Pennines, so more patchy for northwest England.

00:39Likewise, it's likely to break up properly for western Scotland.

00:43Cloud-free skies remaining here and northern Ireland, clear skies also most likely.

00:48Under any clear skies, temperatures falling into the mid-single figures where we've got some shelter

00:53or even a little lower for some of the most sheltered spots across central and western Scotland.

00:59But we've got the cloud, 8 to 10 degrees and some patchy drizzle.

01:03First thing, most likely northeast England, southeast Scotland over east-facing hills.

01:09We've got high pressure still in charge, so on the whole that's going to keep things dry and settled throughout the weekend.

01:15The high pressure is not budging, but equally around that high we've got these northeasterly winds

01:19and that's the reason we're seeing a lot of low clouds spread westwards overnight.

01:24But by day, the sun will help to lift the cloud, break it up and burn it back to the east coast where it's likely to remain.

01:31Although it will be a slow process, some places not properly brighten up until the mid to late afternoon,

01:36for example, parts of the Midlands and northern England.

01:39Eventually, most likely, it will be cloudiest on the east coast, sunniest elsewhere.

01:46And in the sunshine, where we get a full day of sunshine, temperatures reaching 21 or 22 Celsius,

01:5323 or 24 possible for parts of western Scotland.

01:57That's likely to be the warm spot.

01:59But on Saturday night, it's likely that we'll repeat the whole thing again

02:04with the low cloud in the North Sea waiting until it gets dark

02:07and then creeping back inland across many eastern and central parts of the UK.

02:12Wouldn't want to be too clever about exactly where that cloud's going to end up

02:15because it's a thin layer, it's very fickle and it's difficult to model it in the computer models

02:22because it's so thin and tenuous.

02:24Nevertheless, it is most likely to spread into eastern and central parts of England,

02:28parts of eastern Scotland as well, clearest to the west.

02:31And we start off Sunday with, well, temperatures dipping to the mid-single figures again

02:37in western areas, eight or nine, where we've got the low cloud.

02:40But again on Sunday, even where we've got the low cloud to start things off,

02:45it does tend to retreat back to the east as temperatures rise inland.

02:50And so brightening up and largely sunny once more across the UK on Sunday,

02:56there's always the chance of a very isolated shower developing somewhere like the southern uplands.

03:02But, I mean, very few people would experience that if any.

03:07And for the vast majority of the UK, it's staying dry and it's staying sunny.

03:10And it's staying warm where we get the sunshine, temperatures up to the low 20s,

03:14perhaps somewhere like western Scotland, where we see long spells of sunshine

03:18and the easterly wind warming up as it passes over the hills to the east.

03:22There's a possibility of mid-20s Celsius.

03:26Then into Monday and Tuesday, I mentioned the odd shower in the south of Scotland,

03:31but there's always the chance of showers developing more widely on Monday and Tuesday

03:35before higher pressure brings fine weather through Wednesday

03:38and then a more definitive change to changeable weather late next week.

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