Rain continues this morning, with this frontal band pushing eastwards across the UK today. Conditions should brighten considerably as the rain band clears east after lunch, leaving a potential legacy of heavy downpours amidst clear skies and warm temperatures. This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 24/05/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
00:00Welcome along to your bank holiday weekend. It's a bit of a dull, dismal, damp start, but then we did need some rain.
00:07It's been a very dry month so far, but for many places, rain and drizzle on and off to start this long weekend.
00:13It is all heading its way out into the North Sea, so most places turning drier through the morning and quite a few of us brightening up by late morning and into the afternoon.
00:21Some breaks in the cloud over the Midlands, eastern England and northeast Scotland.
00:25Now, where we do see some breaks, that could just spark one or two afternoon heavy showers, possibly for East Anglia, northeastern Scotland and Northern Ireland.
00:33In the west, many places will stay pretty cloudy with some rain and drizzle on and off, but I say quite a few of us will brighten up after that dull, damp start.
00:41It's not a cold start, certainly warmer than it was this time yesterday.
00:46By this afternoon, in the sunshine, feeling quite warm and humid, 21, 22 across parts of eastern England and eastern Scotland,
00:53whereas further west, temperatures won't be as high because it's likely to stay fairly cloudy here.
00:58And there's more rain coming in, as you can see here, across the Republic of Ireland through the afternoon,
01:02and that spreads across northern Ireland later today and then across many areas again as we go through the night.
01:08So another pulse of rain for most of us, some heavy bursts of rain mixed in with that and some gusty winds.
01:14The wind's really starting to get quite lively across western Scotland through the night tonight,
01:19something we've not experienced for quite some time.
01:21So, yes, some gusty winds here and everywhere actually turning fairly blustery.
01:26It makes for another pretty mild night.
01:28Again, most places holding up in double figures and some towns and cities staying in the teens.
01:34Sunday's a bit of a mishmash.
01:35It is going to be a blustery, gusty day across much of the north, particularly windy across northwest Scotland.
01:41The winds may ease a touch here through the day, but staying pretty lively over the far north with further outbreaks of rain to come.
01:47Lots of showers coming into western Scotland, northwest England, Northern Ireland.
01:50A few for north and west Wales, but I suspect not many will get to the Midlands and eastern England.
01:56The odd one whizzing through on the breeze, but we should see some good spells of dry and bright weather over eastern England.
02:02Southern parts of the Midlands, South Wales, southwest England, even eastern Scotland will get some shelter.
02:08So that wind there will bring a fresher feel.
02:10Might still squeak up over 20 degrees in the southeast tomorrow, but generally feeling not as humid.
02:15A fresher feel with temperatures struggling for many to get above 14 or 15, especially on the west coast,
02:22where that breeze will continue to blow in more showers as we head into Bank Holiday and Monday.
02:27A similar story, really, with the most frequent showers in western Scotland.
02:31Some heavy ones here, Northern Ireland seeing a fair few.
02:34I think we'll see a bit more cloud over southern parts on Monday and parts of Wales with a few more showers compared to Sunday.
02:40But still, parts of eastern England receiving the best shelter.
02:44And here, again, not too many showers, so a decent chance that much of the day will be dry before another area of more persistent rain approaches Northern Ireland late in the day.
02:52And again, with some brightness in the east, high teens likely here, whereas further west will be in the low to mid teens and feeling cooler with the breeze.
03:00So the weather patterns have definitely changed, looking fairly changeable throughout much of next week as well.
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