Met Office Friday Afternoon Weather Forecast 03/10/2025

Met Office

03 October - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

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00:00Storm Amy is now rapidly deepening across the Atlantic and will hit the UK during the

00:06rest of Friday, bringing the risk of heavy rain and exceptionally strong winds for many

00:11parts of the country.

00:13Amy is currently being picked up by the jet stream and it's during Friday afternoon as

00:17it transfers to the cold side of the jet stream that it really spins up, lots of isobars being

00:22added to the centre of the low and that means very strong winds.

00:26And Amy will then push into Western Scotland and Northern Ireland during Friday afternoon.

00:31And this gives you an idea of the expected wind gusts and the peak timings of those wind

00:35gusts.

00:36Friday evening, 6pm, you can see this broad swathe of strong winds across the north and

00:41the west of the UK, anything coloured up is more than 50 miles an hour.

00:45But some of these darker colours here indicates wind gusts of 60, 70 miles an hour for parts

00:50of northwest England, North Wales, Western Scotland and Northern Ireland.

00:55But there's this peak zone just to the south of Amy where wind gusts are expected to get

01:02up to 80 miles an hour plus and a very narrow swathe pushing into parts of the Western Isles

01:07of wind gusts of more than 100 miles per hour.

01:11Now note as well that the low pressure centre passes through parts of Lewis and Harris, so

01:16actually winds light here initially before the next bout of very strong winds arrives overnight.

01:22And during the early hours, those very strong winds transfer to other parts of Northern Scotland.

01:28But it stays very blustery across the whole of the UK through the night and into much of

01:32the weekend.

01:33Now this gives you an idea of some of the yellow and amber warnings.

01:39Yellow warning covering much of the UK, but we've got these amber warnings for western

01:43parts of Northern Ireland and much of the north and west of Scotland.

01:49Then we've got rain warnings as well because not only do we have the very strong winds,

01:53we've got some wet weather moving in, especially across Northern Ireland into western Scotland

01:58and West Wales.

01:59That's already happening.

02:00That heavy and persistent rain falling on top of what has been a wet few days.

02:05The wet weather then moves across the whole of the UK during Friday afternoon, always the

02:09heaviest rain in the north.

02:11And it's as the persistent rain clears, the winds really pick up through the Irish Sea into

02:17western Scotland and Northern Ireland as the afternoon comes to an end.

02:21Amber warnings come into force and temperatures fairly academic given how wet and windy it's

02:26going to be across all parts of the UK.

02:28But it's the north of the UK expected to see the strongest of the winds.

02:32As I say, peaking during Friday evening across western Scotland and Northern Ireland, 45 hours

02:38of the strongest winds, 80 MPH for western and northern parts of Northern Ireland, 100 MPH

02:43plus for parts of the Western Isles and the west coast of Scotland combined with very blustery

02:48showers, heavy downpours.

02:50But we've got this band of rain clearing parts of England and Wales.

02:55And this also could be a lively feature, 50-60 MPH wind gusts as it clears through for a short

03:00time on that weather front, followed by further showers across all parts and some persistent

03:06wet weather across the north and west of Scotland.

03:10Now across the northeast of Scotland, it's actually during Saturday morning that the winds

03:15peak here.

03:16Again, 60-70 MPH wind gusts widely with a risk of 80-85 MPH for the northeast of Scotland.

03:23An amber warning here also enforced throughout much of Saturday.

03:27The winds stay strong across the whole of the UK through Saturday, only moderating significantly

03:32as we go into Sunday.

03:34So Saturday is a very blustery day.

03:37Like I say, during the morning, widely wind gusts of 50-60 MPH.

03:41Peak winds at this stage, northeast Scotland, 70-85 MPH wind gusts here as the low pulls away.

03:48Persistent rain as well could cause some issues for the northwest highlands.

03:52Perhaps 70-100 mm of rain falling throughout Saturday.

03:57And yeah, it's going to be very showery elsewhere with heavy downpours, but some brightness emerging

04:01in between the downpours.

04:03It's not going to be raining all the time.

04:04There will be sunny spells, particularly towards the south and the east.

04:08Feeling much colder on Saturday actually, particularly cold in that strong wind that's coming from

04:13the northwest.

04:14And as we go into Saturday night, the rain eases in the north, the showers tend to become

04:18fewer and further between elsewhere, and the wind finally comes down.

04:21So Sunday, still changeable, still some rain and showers around, still a breeze, but nowhere

04:26near as lively as the next 36 hours.

04:32Stay tuned to our YouTube channel, we'll have full updates through the day, and full updates

04:36on the weather warnings, of course, can be found on the Metaflops website and app.

04:40Bye bye.

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