00:00Morning. How did you sleep? Bit of a sticky one, wasn't it? There's good news and bad news.
00:05It's going to be another very warm and humid night tonight, but it is turning cooler as we head into next week.
00:11But certainly a hot one out there today. A bit more cloud around compared to yesterday for England and Wales.
00:17The sunshine rather more hazy and swan or two very isolated, heavy, thundery showers across the southwestern corner.
00:24And as the heat builds through the day, we could spark another couple of thunderstorms perhaps over parts of northern England.
00:29Greatest chance over northern Scotland. Still very hit and miss, but the chance of a rumble of thunder, flash of lightning and a heavy downpour here.
00:37For the vast majority, it is a dry day. And for many, it's going to be hotter than yesterday by a degree or so across parts of England and Wales,
00:45but quite a bit warmer for much of Scotland and Northern Ireland with temperatures here more widely into the 20s,
00:50mid or even high 20s across parts of northern Scotland. Well, not quite that high across the Northern Isles.
00:56For England and Wales, temperatures getting quite widely into the 30s, perhaps a 32 somewhere across eastern England.
01:02Always a little bit cooler around the coast.
01:05Now, as we go through the evening and overnight, still one or two thunderstorms possible over northern Scotland,
01:10but they should tend to fade away. For most, it is going to be a dry night,
01:13turning quite murky and misty with some low cloud around the coasts of southwest England and west Wales.
01:19But generally, a dry night, lengthy, clear spells. And as I mentioned at the start, another pretty tricky night for sleeping,
01:25with some urban areas potentially staying over 20 degrees Celsius.
01:29And if that happens, it's what we call a tropical night.
01:33So, yes, another difficult night for sleeping. Another hot one on Saturday, probably the peak of the temperatures on Saturday.
01:38But also tomorrow, a greater chance of seeing more widespread thunderstorms, perhaps over western areas initially,
01:46but then sparking off through the afternoon. Wales, the Midlands, northern England, southern Scotland.
01:51The potential for some quite lively downpours. Lots of lightning, possibly some hail and torrential rain is possible,
01:57which may cause some local flooding.
01:59So that's an area we're keeping a close eye on because the risk of pretty nasty conditions during Saturday afternoon and into the evening.
02:06Still, they'll be hit and miss, not everywhere catching them.
02:09And much of Scotland will stay dry. Most of Northern Ireland, most of eastern England looking dry as well.
02:13That's where we'll probably see the peak of the temperatures. 33, 34 is just about possible.
02:19The breeze will be picking up, though, both today and tomorrow. More of a wind than recent days.
02:24And notice temperatures in the west tomorrow not as high, but it'll still probably feel pretty sticky, still pretty humid at this stage.
02:31But cooler conditions are on the way.
02:34We're going to lose the high pressure as we go through the second half of the weekend.
02:38It's this high sitting to the east of us, generating the southerly winds and low pressure sitting to the west.
02:44That's why the heat is building at the moment.
02:47The low edge is closer in, generating potentially those nasty storms on Saturday.
02:52The high drifts away. And as it does so, the winds switch directions.
02:56So for Sunday, the winds are now coming in from the west rather than from the south.
02:59And that is a much fresher direction. So if you put the temperature profile on, we can see what's happening.
03:04Those southerly winds drawing up the heat. So another sticky one today.
03:08The heat continues through Saturday, but starts to pull away as those winds switch directions.
03:13So something a bit more comfortable, a bit cooler as we head through Sunday and into the early part of next week.
03:19Do keep up to date with the forecast. Best way to do that, of course, across social media.
03:24For more details on Sunday's forecast, you can watch Aidan's weekend video that's available on our YouTube channel.
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