Met Office Friday Evening Weather Forecast 03/10/2025

Met Office

03 October - National evening forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

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00:00Hello, Storm Amy crosses northern parts of the UK overnight, bringing widespread strong

00:05and gusty winds as well as heavy rainfall. But it's the north where we're likely to

00:09see the most impactful winds. The risk of dangerous wind gusts as Storm Amy continues

00:15to deepen on its approach to the UK. It has been deepening very quickly through the day

00:19on Friday as it gets picked up by the jet stream and in fact moves on to the cold side

00:24of the jet stream. And you can see by the evening how many isobars are on the chart

00:29and it's on the southern flank of this storm where we're likely to see the very strongest

00:33of the winds peaking during the evening. And we're talking about wind gusts widely across

00:39parts of Wales into northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland of 50-60 miles an hour.

00:45And wind gusts in exposed parts of Scotland, northwest England, north Wales and Northern

00:50Ireland of 70 or more miles per hour. But we do have amber warnings for western parts of

00:55Northern Ireland, western Scotland and then later on Northern Scotland where wind gusts

00:59are expected to exceed 80 miles an hour. And it's during the evening on Friday we are most

01:05concerned about this very narrow swathe of strong winds pushing into the Western Isles into the

01:11west coast of Scotland where there is the risk in some exposed spots of 100 mile per hour

01:16wind gusts. But note how the winds drop out across the centre of the low. So for parts of Lewis and Harris,

01:21perhaps a spell where it's really not that windy at all before the strong winds return as Amy pulls

01:27away. And then the strongest of the winds transfer into Northern Scotland through the night. But it's

01:31going to be windy further south as well. Across many parts of the UK we have yellow warnings in force,

01:3550-60 mile per hour wind gusts overnight and into much of Saturday. But it's the amber warning areas

01:42where we are most concerned about Amy because it's in these areas where there is the risk

01:48of very disruptive and damaging winds, widespread transport disruption, power disruption as well

01:55as dangerous conditions due to flying debris and large waves near coasts. We also have rain warnings

02:01enforced because of storm Amy. Of course it's been a wet week across Western Scotland, Northern Ireland,

02:06parts of Northwest England. Further rain to come from Amy. Although the worst of that is now moving away

02:12as we go into the evening and overnight. Followed by frequent blustery showers and longer spells of

02:18rain for the north and west of Scotland. And it's after the main band of rain of course that the winds

02:22really pick up and peak during the evening, the first part of the night across Western Scotland,

02:27Northern Ireland and then later in the night across the north and northeast of Scotland. As the rain travels

02:33south across England and Wales there's going to be some lively conditions overnight could wake you up with

02:38the heavy rain for a brief period of time and also a sharp increase in wind gusts as a cold front moves

02:44through. 50, 60, perhaps 65 mile per hour wind gusts across parts of England and Wales as that transitions

02:52southeastwards. Obviously it's going to be a relatively mild night because of all the weather taking place

02:57but it's certainly going to be a blustery start to Saturday. This shows the strong winds across many

03:03parts of the UK, 50 mile per hour wind gusts widely but it's the north and northeast of Scotland where

03:08there is the risk throughout the daytime on Saturday of 70 to 85 mile per hour wind gusts. Again,

03:14destruction likely, ferry cancellations, damaging wind gusts as well as dangerous conditions around

03:20coasts. By the start of Sunday, yes it's still blustery but the strongest of the winds are moving through.

03:25Once this weather front's out of the way it is brighter across England and Wales but there's further

03:30spells of rain pushing south across England and Wales but also much of northern Scotland and the

03:34rain really accumulating throughout Saturday for the northwest highlands could be 70 to 100 millimetres

03:41of rainfall I should say. Also combined with heavy showers for many parts of the UK so very unsettled

03:47day to come on Saturday. Those heavy downpours and the strong wind making it feel on the cool side with

03:53the wind coming from the northwest it is going to feel notably different with that wind chill now

04:00compared with the last couple of days of milder weather. Further spells of rain is the north of

04:05Scotland overnight on Saturday night. Showers also continuing to tumble into western parts of the UK

04:10but slowly but surely the winds and the showery activity do start to decline so that by the time we get

04:17to Sunday morning yeah temperatures of nine or ten celsius but still feeling fresh out there in the

04:23gusty wind however that wind is easing through Sunday. Sunday's a more typical blustery day rather

04:29than a particularly impactful day. There'll be showery rain particularly in the west there'll be

04:33brighter spells particularly in the east and that wind not particularly strong by the end of the day

04:39in many parts so perhaps feeling a little more pleasant as we end the weekend. The southwest seeing the

04:45best of the sunshine at this stage a lot of cloud elsewhere temperatures up to the mid-teens next

04:51week we keep a keen westerly breeze but nothing particularly stormy on the horizon it looks like

04:57fairly typical October weather it's all about the next 24 hours stay safe stay up to date with the latest

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