Expect showers with some sunny spells and unsettled weather driven by a low pressure centre to the West of Scotland. Temperatures will remain warm, reaching 20C in some areas. Showers will ease up throughout the evening accompanied by clear skies and cooler temperatures. - This is the Met Office UK weather forecast for the afternoon of 01/09/2025. Bringing you today’s forecast is Alex Burkill.
00:00Hello, very good day to you. It is meteorological autumn now and so no real surprise that there's an unsettled autumnal feel to things as we go through this week.
00:09Starting off though, let's look at the earlier satellite imagery and you don't need to be a meteorologist to be able to work out where the low pressure is centered.
00:17You can see around the swirl of cloud. Yes, a relatively mature low here, but it is the driving force for the showery, blustery theme that we have across the country.
00:27There are a couple of occluded fronts making their way and then these fronts are quite important because they're where we're seeing the showers kind of banded together.
00:35So you may get some longer spells of rain elsewhere, a fair few showers for many of us already this morning.
00:41And as we go through this afternoon, we are going to continue to see those occluded fronts bringing some more organized bands of showers perhaps, but even elsewhere, a fair few showers developing for many of us.
00:53Now, showers by their very nature, they're hit and miss, so not everywhere will necessarily see them and they may not last especially long.
01:00There could be just a heavy, perhaps even thundery downpour with a bit of hail for a short period of time.
01:06And then the sun comes out and it's all changed. Classic British weather at this time of year.
01:11Now, if you do get any sunny spells, temperatures are going to rise.
01:14High teens, low 20s for most of us, but worth factoring in that there will be some blustery winds with those showers.
01:20And so in the blustery winds, it's obviously going to feel a little bit fresher than this.
01:25Now, the showers will continue for a fair few of us for a little while as we go into the evening.
01:29But actually, then they'll start to fizzle out and lots of places turning largely dry with some clear skies.
01:35Not everywhere, though.
01:36Northwestern parts of Western Scotland here, the showers will stay pretty frequent.
01:41Could still be thundery, could still be heavy across some parts here and a few showers across some western and perhaps southern coastal parts as well.
01:48But away from these zones, some dry, clear weather.
01:51And with that, then I'm expecting temperatures to be a little bit lower than last night.
01:55Not particularly remarkable. Towns and cities generally holding up in double digits, but more rural spots could quite easily fall into single figures.
02:04And then tomorrow, a big talking point is a swathe of cloud and more persistent rain that's pushing into parts of the southwest.
02:10We'll have reached Devon and Cornwall by dawn, and then it's going to feed its way eastwards, a little bit further northwards as well, across southern counties as we go through the day.
02:18Now, this rain could be quite persistent for a time, could be quite heavy as well,
02:22and there may even be some rumbles of thunder mixed in as it starts to wrap its way up in towards East Anglia later on in the afternoon.
02:29Now, elsewhere, it's again another day of some sunny breaks and showers.
02:33The showers look heaviest across parts of northwest Scotland.
02:37Here again, there could be some thunder mixed in, so some hail, some lightning, and watch out for those blustery winds.
02:43Elsewhere, the showers don't look quite as intense or as widespread as the ones that we'll have seen through today.
02:49Temperature-wise, well, it's looking fairly similar to today, really high teens, low 20s.
02:54It's really a case of where you get the sunshine that you get the chance of the highest temperatures,
02:59so perhaps across parts of the southwest with the system clearing away and a bit more brightness developing later.
03:04That's where we have a greatest chance of getting to highs of around 21 or 22 Celsius.
03:09Then there's more unsettled weather to come as we go through the rest of this week.
03:13Watch out for Wednesday because we do have a system coming across, and that's going to bring some pretty wet and pretty windy weather.
03:19We'll probably need to issue some warnings for that, especially across parts of the south-southeast, coastal gales, that kind of thing.
03:25Then Thursday's looking like a showery day at the moment, so more hit-and-miss rain coming and going.
03:30And then by Friday and into the weekend, a bit of a northwest-southeast split.
03:35So across northwestern parts, it's looking fairly wet.
03:38In the southeast, it's actually looking largely dry for many places, actually.
03:42Friday's going to be the driest day of the week.
03:44But if you want more information about what to expect through the week as a whole,
03:48well, check out our week-ahead forecast, which Alex Deacon will be bringing to you later.
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