Met Office Thursday evening weather forecast 22/05/2025

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The overnight period tonight will see clear skies for the vast majority of the UK. The exception to this pattern is south-western England where there will be some cloud and a little rain at the start of the evening. This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 22/05/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aiden McGivern.

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00:00Hi there, gardeners beware. A late season frost is expected overnight with relatively

00:06cool conditions across the UK and widespread clear skies. We do initially have an area

00:11of cloud clearing South Wales, central southern England, perhaps the odd shower during the

00:15evening but that will tend to fade away. And then aside from a keen breeze blowing down

00:20the North Sea coast and one or two showers reaching Shetland and the east coast, it's

00:25going to be a clear night with light winds and the cooler air across most parts of the

00:30country although the far southwest, Northern Ireland, tending to stay milder. So under

00:35those clear skies a frost is possible and we're talking about ground frost generally, low single

00:40figures but in one or two sheltered spots, parts of central Scotland, northern England for

00:45example, could see temperatures dip below zero. A chilly start then for Friday morning, a colder

00:51start compared with recent mornings for many of us but a beautiful start today, plenty

00:55of sunshine and for Scotland, much of England and Wales we keep those sunny skies going into

01:00the afternoon. Odd shower possible in the southwest but you'll notice a change there into Northern

01:05Ireland, thicker cloud coming along by the end of the afternoon and even some outbreaks

01:08of rain as the day comes to a close. That's because these weather fronts are moving in from

01:13the west and our old friend the jet stream is returning to dominate the UK's weather for

01:19the next week or so. A real significant change in the weather compared to what we've experienced

01:24through spring so far. Much more changeable weather coming in from the west, much needed

01:29rain of course but it's not going to be raining all the time everywhere through the bank holiday

01:34weekend. There'll be spells of rain and showers interspersed by dry interludes. Initially the

01:39warm front that I mentioned moves in giving a spell of rain on Friday evening for Northern

01:44Ireland, Western Scotland and then it sweeps across much of the rest of the country during the

01:48hours of darkness but it is there as we wake up across eastern areas and after temperatures

01:53fall away initially in the east overnight they pick up to double figures again by the end of

01:58the night because of the encroaching cloud and outbreaks of rain. It's going to be cloudy,

02:02it's going to be breezy everywhere first thing Saturday so a big contrast compared with so many

02:07spring mornings recently and it's a damp start in the east but that rain does move into the North Sea

02:13and then brighter skies albeit still with a lot of cloud arrive from the west and spells of showery

02:19rain. Some big clumps of showers I think in places. The heaviest downpours most likely across

02:24parts of central Scotland. The Grampians and the Highlands could see some lively downpours on

02:29Saturday afternoon. Some large rainfall totals we're talking about 25 to 40 millimetres in one or two

02:34spots where those showers are at their most fierce but elsewhere yeah there'll be certainly some drier

02:41spells and in the far south that's where the driest weather is likely to be and temperatures still

02:45managing to get up to the high teens or even low 20s because this is relatively humid air behind the

02:52warm front so it's not going to feel cold but it will feel different I think with the cloud, the breeze

02:58and those outbreaks of rain and showers. Sunday a very breezy day particularly in the north and then

03:06Monday. Bank holiday Monday brings more changeable weather certainly a lot of showers around much

03:11more details on that via our YouTube channel Alex Deacon has the weekend forecast make sure you watch

03:16that.

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