Showers and areas of rain move through Scotland and Northern Ireland during the evening, followed by another area of showery rain pushing into western England and western Wales by the end of the night. Some clear spells ahead of it, but elsewhere will remain cloudy. A muggy night for many. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 17/07/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.
00:00Hi there. It certainly felt much more humid through Thursday compared with recent days in many parts of the UK.
00:08And with that higher humidity, we've seen a lot of cloud cover, some showers and some areas of rain.
00:14And those showers and areas of rain move through Scotland and Northern Ireland during the evening.
00:18Some heavy downpours out there.
00:19And then another area of showery rain pushing into Western England and West Wales by the end of the night.
00:25Ahead of that, some clear spells, but a lot of cloud remains and it's going to be a muggy night for many of us with temperatures staying at 17, 18 Celsius in places.
00:35Some mist and low cloud around as we start the day, western, southern and some southeastern coasts.
00:41But inland things do brighten up and we'll see some hot sunshine developing across parts of Northern England, Eastern England, the Midlands and the Southeast.
00:49Towards the west, areas of cloud here and there, showers moving through Northern Ireland into much of Scotland in between some bright spells.
00:59And look at the temperatures as we go into Friday afternoon, reaching the low 30s in some parts of the southeast.
01:06Now, with that heat and the humidity as well as low pressure nearby, we're likely to see some thundering outbreaks later in the day on Friday and into the weekend.
01:16The first area of thunderstorms likely to affect northeast England as temperatures rise on Friday afternoon.
01:22That's this area here.
01:24And it's through Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, the far northeast of England, where those thunderstorms are most likely.
01:30And somewhere like North York Moores could see some particularly high rainfall rates for a few hours, 40 to 60 millimetres.
01:36Then there's another batch of showery rain and thunderstorms moving up from northern France overnight.
01:42Again, high rainfall totals, chance of lightning, chance of some hail out there.
01:48And we start the weekend with a lot of cloud cover across England and Wales.
01:52Areas of showery rain here and there, some thunderstorms also moving northwards.
01:57And you can see by the bright colours here how heavy that rain is.
02:00Of course, we need the rain.
02:02It will be useful for gardens and farms.
02:05But we don't need it all at once.
02:07That could cause some issues.
02:08It moves into southern and central Scotland later in the day to the far north and west, staying drier.
02:13But there will be further showers coming along for Sunday.
