Met Office Saturday Afternoon Weather Forecast 26/07/2025

26 July - national forecast presented by Jonathan Vautrey

Transcript

00:00Hello there, a very good afternoon to you.

00:03Mixed is probably a good word to describe this weekend.

00:06A few of us have seen some bright spells this morning, but there is a reasonable amount of cloud on the scene.

00:11And we've also seen these outbreaks of patchy rain and showers steadily pushing their way eastwards.

00:17Most of them have been on the light side so far, but as we head into this afternoon, some of them could start to turn heavy.

00:24Particularly across East Anglia, other areas of eastern England, a few hefty downpours are possible.

00:29Maybe with the odd rumble of thunder in there as well.

00:32Generally further towards the west, there will be a touch more sunshine developing in between the showers.

00:37And that will allow temperatures to see highs of 25, maybe locally 26 degrees Celsius.

00:42For parts of the West Midlands, down towards the West Country as well.

00:45More around 19 and 20 degrees Celsius for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

00:50Our showers in the southeast will gradually clear as we head into the evening and overnight periods.

00:55But we are going to see more rain arriving into northwestern Scotland and eventually Northern Ireland as well.

01:02It will turn quite breezy as this system moves in later on in the night as well.

01:07For most of us though, it will be mild.

01:09Temperatures holding up in double-digit figures in our towns and cities.

01:13But some rural spots could just drop into single figures.

01:16Particularly if you have any clear spells around across parts of England and Wales.

01:20It is though going to be a wet and damp start to the second half of the weekend across western Scotland.

01:26Some of that rain could be locally heavy and persistent for a time.

01:29Again, with the odd rumble of thunder possible.

01:32It will tend to break up into showers as we move throughout today.

01:35Spreading across parts of Northern Ireland.

01:37And a few showers will also develop across England and Wales as well.

01:41More cloud arounds though on Sunday for the bulk of the UK.

01:45And that will hold our temperatures back a little bit more compared to those values we're seeing today.

01:50So typically around 18 to 23 degrees Celsius.

01:53But that's pretty much average for this point in the year.

01:57Whilst a few of those showers will continue into Sunday evening.

02:00The general theme is that they will begin to ease off.

02:03And particularly as we head into Monday.

02:05That is looking like a day where more of us will be able to leave the umbrellas at home.

02:10Still some cloud around.

02:11But those bright and sunny spells poking through a touch more widely.

02:14But the umbrellas will probably back out again for the middle part of the week.

02:17As there's the chance of more showers to come.

02:20Though perhaps not any reliable rain for our gardens or allotments at this stage.

02:25We'll of course keep you up to date on everything that we can see over the next coming week.

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02:34Otherwise we'll see you again very soon.

02:35Bye bye.