Met Office Thursday evening weather forecast 19/06/2025

19 June - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

Transcript

00:00Hello, Thursday was hot, Friday for most of us likely to be a little bit hotter and certainly

00:06a very warm and humid night Thursday night and into Friday. Now it's not completely fine out

00:12there, bit of cloud across Northern Ireland may produce the odd rumble of thunder as it drifts

00:16into parts of southern Scotland and central Scotland through the night and also down to

00:20the southwest. The possibility you could get woken up by a rumble of thunder or a flash of

00:24lightning but for the vast majority it's dry, long clear spells and temperatures holding up a

00:30very warm and humid feel particularly so across Wales and southwest England where some urban areas

00:36may not drop below 19 degrees celsius so a warm and sticky night and as I said a hot day to come

00:43on Friday. Now there will be more cloud around on Friday so the sunshine certainly hazier for England

00:48and Wales and the clouds thick enough for one or two isolated but potentially heavy thundery showers

00:54across southwest England and south Wales early on and then the chance of the afternoon could

00:58generate some thunderstorms maybe parts of northern England a greatest chance over northern Scotland

01:03again very hit and miss but where they do occur again could generate some lightning and some

01:09rumbles of thunder. For most places though it is just a hot day of hazy sunshine a warmer day for

01:16Northern Ireland and Scotland compared to Thursday temperatures in northern Scotland getting into the

01:21mid maybe even high 20s in places and over 30 celsius across parts of east Wales the Midlands and some

01:27parts of eastern England where we could get up to maybe 32. Always a little bit cooler around some

01:33coasts a little bit more comfortable here perhaps. Now through Friday evening not a great deal of change

01:38maybe still the odd thunderstorm rumbling on over northern Scotland but otherwise largely dry perhaps

01:42turning a little mistier around the coasts in the southwest. The humidity remains high and more widely

01:49across the south temperatures staying in the high teens. A greater chance as we head into Saturday that

01:54we're still above 20 celsius in a few places that would make it a tropical night. So again a difficult

02:00night for sleeping. Now Saturday we'll probably see the peak of the temperatures but also an increased

02:06chance of thunderstorms. Parts of western England, Wales especially and later in the day North Wales,

02:13northern England, maybe southern Scotland, the Midlands susceptible to some torrential downpours.

02:18They'll still be hit and miss and not everywhere catching them but these beasts on Saturday do need

02:23watching generating a lot of lightning and the possibility of local flooding. So that's something

02:28we're keeping an eye on. Again many places won't see them and just stay dry with plenty of hot hazy

02:33sunshine. The heat peaking in the east at least 30, 33, maybe even 34. Temperatures not as high in the west as we

02:41start to see a change but it won't feel any more comfortable here. It'll still be pretty humid during

02:47Saturday but the the numbers on the thermometer not quite as high and we are going to see those

02:51temperatures dipping down further as we head into Sunday but still a very warm start across

02:57eastern areas. Now the heat building through high pressure sitting to the east and southerly winds

03:02picking up but there is this low pressure further west. That's what's likely to destabilise things

03:08and potentially bring those damaging from the storms in places on Saturday. But as that low drifts

03:13northwards by Sunday the winds are now coming in from the west or the southwest and that's

03:17when it will start to turn fresher. If we put the temperature profile on you can see that heat

03:22building through Friday night and Saturday. A very warm night and then that heat continuing into

03:27Saturday before it starts to get shunted away. The high pressure drifts away, the low takes over and

03:32those westerly winds will bring cooler conditions as we head into next week. Do keep up to date with

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