Week Ahead 27/10/2025 – Driest day for half-term? - video Dailymotion

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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 27/10/2025. Spells of rain will cross the country through the week and it’ll often turn windy. Bringing you this week’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin

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00:00Hello. A little bit of sunshine, a fair bit of rain and often some gusty winds.

00:05It's a typical late October week.

00:08The rain, first of all. Watch how the rainfall totals will build up over the course of the working week.

00:15Nowhere immune from some wet weather, some useful rain, of course, across central and eastern parts of England,

00:20where it has been very dry, but the heaviest rain most likely in the west,

00:25particularly across northwest Scotland, over the hills and mountains here.

00:28But, yeah, spells of rain coming and going throughout the week.

00:31And when that's the case, you can be pretty confident that low pressure will be never too far away.

00:37And also, you can be reasonably confident that the jet stream is close by to the UK and reasonably active

00:43because that will be pushing the weather systems and the weather fronts across the UK.

00:48The isobar is always close together as well, suggesting that it will at times be fairly blustery,

00:53particularly later this week, as this feature develops an intense area of low pressure,

00:58looking likely to move to the west of the Republic of Ireland.

01:01But lots of isobars on the charts and more weather fronts springing, more wet and windy weather through

01:05as we head towards the end of the week.

01:08OK, let's put some detail on day by day and we'll rewind the clock.

01:13First weather system travelling south Monday night, lingering across southern counties of England.

01:18So it could be a bit of a grey day here, quite a narrow band of rain and drizzle.

01:22Further north, there'll be some showers for western Scotland, northern Ireland, a few getting into northern England.

01:27Quite windy too, particularly early on over the Pennines.

01:31But from a good part of north-east England, much of north Wales, much of the Midlands, east England,

01:36it's a fine day on Tuesday.

01:38Dry, bright, a little breezy, but with some sunny spells.

01:41And we've lost that northerly wind that brought the chill at the end of last week and into the weekend.

01:46And so with the winds back to the west, temperatures will be back, for most of us, close to the average.

01:51So maybe creeping into the low to maybe mid-teens across the south.

01:55Still cold air in place across northern Scotland, so single figures likely here.

02:00Now as we go through Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, we've got a couple of areas to watch out for.

02:06This area of low pressure bringing some showers into the north-west and this little wiggling, waving weather fronts.

02:11Now these waves, as they're known, always give us meteorologists a few headaches there.

02:18And never easy to pin down.

02:20So where the rain is on Wednesday, it could be a little further north, it could be a little further south.

02:24But generally speaking, for much of the Midlands, South Wales, southern England and East Anglia,

02:29Wednesday's a grey day without breaks of rain.

02:31Maybe something a bit brighter developing over north Wales.

02:34And there'll be a sweet spot in between those weather systems where much of the day is dry and fine, perhaps over northern England.

02:41But there'll be plenty of showers still to come in across Scotland and Northern Ireland.

02:45Cold air still in place across northern Scotland, so some snow over the tops of the mountains in the showers here in single-digit temperatures.

02:52Further south, with more cloud and with the outbreaks of rain, it'll be a cooler day Wednesday compared to Tuesday,

02:59struggling to get into the teens in most places here.

03:02Now that little wave should be out of the way on Wednesday nights.

03:07And then eyes down to the southwest for this next developing system that we saw earlier.

03:12Thankfully, intensifying well away from the UK.

03:15But it is approaching and will bring some wet and windy weather for sure.

03:18But it's not really here until later on Thursday.

03:21So there's a bit of a ridge, a bump in the isobars there.

03:25A ridge of high pressure, which means it'll be a fine start to Thursday.

03:28It also means it'll be a cold start to Thursday.

03:32Temperatures widely in towns and cities well down into single digits and a frost likely in many rural areas.

03:39So yes, a chilly start to Thursday.

03:41Could be some fog around too where the winds are light across parts of Scotland in particular.

03:46But there'll still be a few showers across the far north of Scotland.

03:48For many though, Thursday should be a sparkling start.

03:51Plenty of blue sky around.

03:52But here comes that weather system increasing the cloud in the west.

03:56Some rain coming into southwest England, Wales and then later Northern Ireland.

04:00And these areas also feeling the winds starting to pick up too.

04:05It'll be a chilly start.

04:06It'll be quite late in the day before we start to see the temperatures getting up into the teens.

04:10But as I say for many, it's a fine bright day on Thursday.

04:13And then that weather system we saw earlier continues its track northwards.

04:18Those weather fronts will take rain across most areas Thursday night and into Friday.

04:22Look at the ice bars really squeezing together there across the Republic of Ireland especially.

04:26So we do need to watch this low pressure system.

04:29The ice bars close together though right across the UK too.

04:32So a breezy Halloween.

04:35Spells of rain crossing Scotland and Northern Ireland.

04:37There'll then be a few showers for England and Wales.

04:39But there should still be some dry and bright weather on Friday too.

04:43And that wind has swung around coming up from the south.

04:45So bringing milder air.

04:46So with a bit of sunshine Friday we could see highs of 15, 16 degrees across parts of the south and east.

04:52But it'll feel cooler when the showers come along and feeling cooler especially around western coast.

04:57With that potentially very gusty wind in place too.

05:01That system tries to move out of the way as we head into the weekend.

05:04And then we need to look down to the south because there is potentially something else just spinning up here.

05:09And that could bring some further wet and windy weather as we head into the weekend.

05:13One to keep an eye on, one to track, we'll be doing that obviously.

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