00:00Hi there. Following a warm night for many northern parts of the UK, especially Scotland and Northern Ireland,
00:06it's likely to be the hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures exceeding 30 Celsius in places.
00:11But it's not hot everywhere. We do have an area of low cloud in the east, very tenuous, very patchy,
00:17and likely to retreat back to the beaches as the morning progresses.
00:21That's going to limit temperature rise in the east, and we also have this cooler wind coming from the North Sea.
00:27So it's not as hot this time in this heatwave across the southeast compared with the last heatwave.
00:33Temperatures, the highest temperatures, are more shifted west.
00:36And with the high temperatures that we saw on Friday, well, that heat is now moving northwards to more effect Northern Ireland and Scotland.
00:44So let's take a look in detail at those temperatures that we're expecting for the afternoon.
00:48And for Shetland and Orkney, we do have a lot of low clouds.
00:52That's going to limit temperatures here, 17 or 18 Celsius.
00:55But for Thurso, 25 degrees, and fairly widely across Scotland, away from the east coast,
01:01we're expecting the mid to high 20s.
01:04And in many western areas, 30 or 31 Celsius.
01:08I suspect the warmer spots, Glasgow, West Coast, Murray Coast as well, where temperatures could reach 31 Celsius.
01:16Northern Ireland, 28, 29 Celsius widely, one or two 30s possible, particularly towards the north and the west.
01:23Across parts of Northern England, Northwest England, 30, 31 Celsius expected.
01:29Likewise for parts of North Wales, around the coast of West Wales, high 20s.
01:34And you can see the number of 30s there on the map through central and western parts of England.
01:39Much more limited towards the east of England.
01:41But come inland, and it's widely 30 or 31 Celsius, Cardiff 32, and somewhere around Gloucestershire, 33, perhaps 34 Celsius.
01:50So parts of the southwest and western parts of the Midlands, East Wales, seeing the highest temperatures in the UK, in this instance, on Saturday.
02:02And wherever you are, you've got the strong sunshine, got light winds, so it is going to feel very hot outside.
02:07But the east coast, as I say, will see some patchy low cloud.
02:11That's going to push inland a little on Saturday night into Sunday morning.
02:16Meanwhile, despite the clear skies elsewhere, it's going to be an exceptionally warm night in many spots,
02:22but particularly towards the west, 18 or 19 Celsius.
02:26And northwest Scotland could see temperatures holding up at 20 or even 21 Celsius.
02:31So that gets it close to Scotland's warmest night on record.
02:38But in the east, we start Sunday with some low cloud.
02:40And in fact, this could be more persistent as we go through the morning on Sunday and into the afternoon.
02:46And there'll be some wispy cloud elsewhere, so temperature's not quite as high on Sunday.
02:50Still a hot day, still widely the mid to high 20s.
02:53But we're unlikely to widely reach the low 30s compared with Saturday.
02:57It's still going to be hot in the southeast on Monday.
