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Weekend weather 17/07/2025 - Will you get a thunderstorm? – Met Office weather forecast UK

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00:00Hello. Some parts of the UK will have some warm sunshine this weekend, but the main talking

00:05point will be the heavy downpours and the thunderstorms. Pinning down thunderstorms

00:10in summer, well, it's as tricky as pinning down an individual cloud. So yes, the detail

00:15still a little bit to play for. The bigger picture tells the story quite nicely. Low

00:20pressure sitting up to the northwest, but the isobar's pretty sparsely packed. And down

00:25to the south, there's a warm plume, a zone of warm, humid air that's tracking its way

00:31northwards. With the energy, combining with some moisture, that's likely to spark some

00:36thundery downpours as the winds waft those heavy downpours up from France through Friday night.

00:43Likely to wake up, of course, these dangling in the southeast of some hefty downpours.

00:46That all tracks steadily northwards through the course of the day, getting into parts of

00:51east Wales, maybe, maybe into southern Scotland also. But certainly a large chunk of England

00:57at risk from hefty downpours. May turn a bit drier across the southeast come the afternoon,

01:02but any sunshine here may spark further thunderstorms. Looking a bit drier across

01:07northern Ireland, particularly so in the east and western Scotland. May well have a fine day

01:12on Saturday. Parts of south Wales and southernmost counties of England generally enjoying sunny

01:18skies through the afternoon that will be clouding over in the far southwest. Now, the main concern

01:23is this zone of hefty downpours. Now, we've got quite a big yellow warning area for thunderstorms

01:29issued on Thursday. In this area, there is the risk of torrential rain falling onto dry ground,

01:36so that could cause flooding, lots of lightning, large hailstones and gusty winds. But as is always

01:42the case with summer thunderstorms, just because you're in this warning area doesn't mean

01:47you're definitely going to catch a downpour. They'll still be hit and miss. This is just the

01:51area that's at the greatest risk from disruption during the course of Friday night, and particularly

01:59through Saturday. With those heavy rains tracking northwards, they'll also bring quite a lot of cloud

02:04with them. It'll still be warm and humid and muggy, but temperatures won't be as high on Saturday.

02:10Reaching still 24, 25, maybe a little higher with a bit of sunshine across the far south,

02:15a little cooler further north and west as well, generally temperatures in the low 20s across

02:19Scotland and Northern Ireland, along with Wales. Those temperatures quite a bit down on Friday's

02:24values, particularly over the Midlands and eastern England by three to six degrees, maybe more in some

02:30locations. So, yeah, temperatures won't be as high, but it'll still feel pretty claggy, pretty humid.

02:36And then for Sunday, well, we look down to the southwest as the area of low pressure starts to

02:41move its way in. And around that, there'll be further bands of heavy showers and even

02:47thunderstorms. Again, the details may change of exactly where these bands of showers are lying and

02:53where we see some sunshine between the heavy bands of showers that may well spark further

02:58heavy, thundery showers because the air's pretty unstable, as we say, pretty active in terms of

03:06downpours, volatile atmosphere, likely again to produce hit and miss thundery showers. Quite

03:12cloudy in eastern Scotland with some heavier rain here and close to the low, likely to be pretty

03:17cloudy with showery rain on and off. It could get quite gusty, too, along the south coast of England.

03:22As I say, between the downpours elsewhere, there will be some sunshine and it'll still feel quite

03:27warm in the sunshine, although humidity levels tending to dip away a little bit as we go through the

03:32weekend. And it's quite noticeable if the breeze picks up along these eastern coasts. If it stays

03:36cloudy, temperatures may stay in the teens. Plenty going on then through the course of this weekend.

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