Wet conditions continue in the north this afternoon, with persistent rain affecting Scotland, Northern Ireland, and northern parts of England and Wales. Some significant accumulations will be seen on hills, and these conditions will continue for Scotland and northern England through the rest of the day. Elsewhere, sunny spells and warm temperatures especially in the southeast. Some gusty winds, and humidity rising compared to yesterday. - This is the Met Office UK weather forecast for the afternoon of 27/06/2025. Bringing you today’s forecast is Alex Deakin.
00:00Welcome to your Friday afternoon weather update from the Met Office.
00:03The heat is building this weekend, but only for some.
00:07Not everywhere will see temperatures rising too far.
00:11And, well, the satellite picture doesn't look that promising for a heat wave, does it?
00:14With a big area of low pressure sitting out in the Atlantic,
00:17certainly providing some outbreaks of rain today.
00:19High pressure sitting to the south.
00:22Gradually, the high will waft some warmer air up through the weekend.
00:26But in the shorter term, the cloud is providing quite a soggy Friday
00:30for parts of southwest Scotland, northwest England.
00:33Particularly over the hills here, highlands of Scotland, also seeing rain on and off.
00:37And we'll see patchy rain continuing to affect parts of northern Ireland.
00:41Some heavy bursts likely, mostly over the hills, pushed along by a fairly brisk wind.
00:46Now, I've heard the south sky is brightening all the while.
00:48Some coasts down to the west and southwest may stay a little grey.
00:52But generally, quite a bit of sunshine for England and Wales.
00:55But even here, it is quite breezy.
00:57Quite warm, though, across the Midlands and eastern England.
00:59Temperatures starting to rise, getting up to 25, 26, maybe 27 Celsius.
01:05Cooler on some coasts, but the humidity also starting to rise.
01:09Certainly not feeling very pleasant with the wind and the rain across northwest Scotland.
01:13That rain will continue over the highlands through the evening and for much of the night.
01:17In fact, the hills in the west will keep rain and drizzle.
01:20That goes for Wales, along with northwest England and northern Ireland and western Scotland.
01:25Should turn a little drier in the far north by the time we get to the early hours.
01:29Reasonable comfortable conditions here with some fresher air trying to get in.
01:34But for most places, a pretty warm and humid night with temperatures holding up at 17 or 18.
01:39That's how we start the weekend.
01:42And as I say, for quite a few of us, it is going to be a hot one.
01:45For most of us, though, it's going to be a fairly grey start and it will be quite a damp start through central Scotland, parts of northern Ireland.
01:51That rain should be edging away to the south.
01:54So Belfast cheering up.
01:55Glasgow, Edinburgh also looking brighter by the time we get to Saturday lunchtime.
02:00And a much brighter day overall for the highlands of Scotland.
02:02Still quite breezy.
02:03Quite a gusty wind blowing here.
02:05Quite a grey day over the far north of England.
02:08Rain on and off across Cumbria.
02:10North Wales likely to see a bit of rain, particularly Anglesey at times.
02:14But a good chunk of England and Wales will stay dry and we'll have some sunshine, certainly for east Wales, much of southwest England, the Midlands and eastern England too.
02:23And it's in this eastern zone where we'll see the highest temperatures likely to get up to 29, 30 degrees in and around the capital.
02:30But notice nothing like as hot.
02:3310 degrees lower for much of Scotland and northern England, northern Ireland as well, with more cloud in this zone here feeling quite humid, I suspect, with temperatures in the low 20s only.
02:45So the heat's starting to pick up through Saturday and into Saturday night.
02:49It'll be very warm.
02:51We'll continue with this zone of cloudier weather over Cumbria, bringing some rain and drizzle northern parts of Lancashire and, again, the far northwest of Wales.
02:59But either side of it, many places staying dry and staying fine on Saturday evening, a balmy evening certainly across the south.
03:05The winds will be lighter in southern areas on Saturday compared to today.
03:09Fast forward to Sunday.
03:11Again, a very warm night, so a humid start and still this zone of cloudier weather over parts of northern England, north Wales.
03:17The rain should be petering out, but we may see another pulse of rain just pushing back towards northern Ireland later on.
03:24For most places, though, Sunday is dry.
03:26Again, a much cooler, fresher feel across Scotland and northern Ireland compared to further south, where, again, where we see some sunshine.
03:32It perhaps won't be quite as sunny on Saturday, a bit more cloud around, so, again, that humid feel.
03:38We should still get up to 30, perhaps even 31 in the capital.
03:43Now, the peak of this current hot spell is likely to be on Monday, where central and eastern England will be widely over 30 degrees,
03:50and we could easily get to 34, perhaps even a chance we could get to 35, again, most likely in the capital and that zone up towards Cambridgeshire.
03:59Always a little cooler around the coast, but even by Sunday, you notice that warmth has started to waft further north,
04:04so a warmer, more humid feel across central and eastern parts of Scotland by this stage as well.
04:10So, yes, it is going to turn hotter, particularly so across eastern parts of England.
04:16Nights will be pretty uncomfortable as well.
04:18Lots of good advice about how to stay cool during hot weather on the Met Office website.
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