00:00Hi there, good morning. It's a warm but in places misty, cloudy and for some wet start to Friday.
00:09Very mixed conditions across the UK, in other words, showery rain moving through parts of Scotland into Western England, Wales
00:15and then further showers following for Northern Ireland and Western Scotland, albeit within these showers a better chance of some bright spells coming through.
00:24Ahead of the showers and the cloud in the west, we've got some hot sunshine developing through parts of North East England, East Anglia, South East and the Midlands.
00:33Widely, temperatures here reaching the high 20s or even the low 30s in places.
00:38That temperature plus the humidity plus some instability in the atmosphere combined could lead to some fairly nasty thunderstorms across the North East of England
00:48and some high rainfall rates, 40 to 60 millimetres in just a few hours.
00:52Now, of course, we need the rain, but that amount of rain in a short time could cause issues falling onto relatively dry ground.
01:00And then there's the chance later in the day of further thunderstorms coming up from Northern France.
01:05So we've got the initial thunderstorms setting off during the afternoon and early part of the evening.
01:11That's North East England, parts of Lincolnshire, for example.
01:14And then the next area of heavy rain and thunderstorms moving up from Northern France to affect parts of Eastern and Central England,
01:22perhaps reaching as far west as East Wales by the end of the night.
01:25Towards the north and west, clear spells, fewer showers, but another muggy night for sleeping and a warm start to the weekend.
01:32But a wet one for parts of England and Wales, much more rain than we've seen throughout most of the summer across central and eastern parts.
01:41It's going to be good for the gardens, of course, and the farms.
01:44Not necessarily good in terms of disruption because it's going to be heavy and it's going to dump a lot of rain in a short space of time.
01:54It could be lightning and hail combined with that as well.
01:57So, yeah, a risk of thunderstorms because the risks of lightning, hail and intense rain are very real,
02:04but some useful rain in places as well.
02:07And after those outbreaks of rain move through, further showers follow from the west for Sunday.
