Met Office Friday Afternoon Weather Forecast 13/06/2025

Met Office

13 June - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

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00:00Hi there.

00:01The heat and humidity continues to rise during the rest of the day, and that could spark

00:05some very severe weather overnight.

00:08The Met Office have issued an amber warning for thunderstorms across parts of eastern

00:12England.

00:13But ahead of those thunderstorms, actually long spells of sunshine for much of England

00:17and Wales, and for Scotland and Northern Ireland also some bright spells, although showers

00:22will occur on and off here, and there'll be cloudier skies in general across much of Scotland

00:27and Northern Ireland.

00:28The cloud then thickens across Wales and southwest England, with heavy rain moving in here by

00:33the evening rush hour.

00:35But before the thunderstorms arrive in the east and southeast, it is going to be very

00:39warm, if not hot.

00:40Temperature is peaking at 29 Celsius.

00:43Here's the system that's likely to bring some lively weather overnight, and it's these frontal

00:48systems that'll bring some heavy rain and some thunderstorms to many parts of the UK.

00:53But within these frontal systems, within this plume of heat and humidity emanating from northern

01:00France, that's likely to destabilise, and that's where the most severe thunderstorms

01:07are likely to occur across parts of the east and southeast of England.

01:12So, initially during the evening, it's dry towards the southeast, but we'll be watching developments

01:17over northern France very closely, because that's where these thunderstorms are likely

01:21to develop and drift northeastwards.

01:23As always, there's an element of uncertainty in terms of the exact track of these systems.

01:28We won't know the finer details precisely until it starts to take place.

01:33But the signals are that it's across east Anglia and the far southeast of England, so Kent, Essex,

01:39Suffolk, Norfolk, where we're likely to see the greatest risk of impacts from the torrential

01:46rain, large hail, one, two centimetres in diameter, frequent lightning, and gusty winds, 50 mile

01:54per hour wind gusts, perhaps more with some of the most lively thunderstorms.

01:59And so, all of those elements could cause impacts across parts of east Anglia and the southeast

02:04in particular during the hours of darkness.

02:07But of course, the amber thunderstorm warning reflects the fact that it's a risk of these

02:14impacts occurring, not a guarantee, because we'll have to keep an eye on developments across

02:19northern France and see exactly where they're going to end up as they drift northwards.

02:23And even if you're not in the amber zone, there are yellow warnings in force for thunderstorms

02:28across many other parts of the UK.

02:30Areas of heavy rain and thundery showers drifting north across parts of western England, Wales,

02:35and then into Scotland and Northern Ireland by the end of the night.

02:38Meanwhile, later in the night, anything that does develop across the southeastern quarter

02:43tends to drift into the North Sea as an area of heavy rain.

02:47And it's going to be a muggy night wherever you are, whether you've got the thundery rain

02:50or any clear spells that happen to continue.

02:53Temperatures not drifting much below 16 or 17 Celsius.

02:58We start off Saturday with areas of heavy rain, thundery showers, and some very wet weather

03:03in places.

03:04Not everywhere will be affected, but you can see how messy it becomes during Saturday morning,

03:08with an area of low pressure in place across the UK.

03:11Persistent rain for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

03:13Some thundery showers for northern and central England.

03:16Brighter skies developing across the south and southeast.

03:20By the end of the afternoon, it's largely dry and sunny towards East Anglia and the southeast,

03:25with temperatures still reaching the mid-twenties in places.

03:27We've still got relatively warm and humid air here.

03:30Then later Saturday, any rain and thundery downpours tend to slowly ease, but we do still

03:36have a wet end to the day across parts of Scotland as well as Northern England.

03:41Higher towards the south with clear spells, and that's a sign of a change on the way for

03:46later the week in the weekend.

03:47We've got higher pressure starting to build towards the south, and so a fine day in the

03:52south on Sunday, and the more settled weather develops more widely across the UK as we go

03:57into next week.

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