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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 18/05/2026. It’s a cool and showery damp start to the week for most of the UK but in the run up to the Bank Holiday weekend temperatures are set to rise. It won’t be a week of wall to wall sunshine as there is plenty of rain to come but Friday is likely to be the warmest day of the year so far.

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00:00Hello there, temperatures are on the rise this week with Friday set to be the warmest
00:04day of the year so far.
00:06It's not going to be all sunshine though, there's quite a lot of rain to come, in fact
00:10across many western areas plenty of showers through the next few days and then later on
00:14in the week weather fronts bring some rain to more north western areas, these are the
00:19rainfall totals as they build up through the week.
00:22You can see some areas of north west England, much of north western Scotland and northern
00:26Ireland seen some quite heavy bursts of rain, also some rain affecting the south east but
00:31very little to be honest after the next couple of days as high pressure starts to move in
00:36later on in the week but for now quite a large area of low pressure pushes in through this
00:41evening into Tuesday sweeping these weather fronts from the west to the east by Tuesday
00:48morning so that does mean it's going to be another pretty mild start to the day on Tuesday
00:52but a wet one. This band of rain will push into the north east lingering across north eastern
00:57areas through much of the day and behind it sunshine but also some quite heavy possibly
01:02thundery showers through Tuesday particularly across eastern areas of England, north eastern
01:07England in particular where the showers will likely linger into the latter part of the afternoon
01:13early evening. There is going to be some sunshine around, some quite brisk southwesterly winds,
01:18it's warmer direction so temperatures will be rising a little through Tuesday coming up
01:23to the high teens for many areas but if you get caught in any of those showers there's going
01:28to be some pretty blustery winds so you're going to want to stay prepared if you're heading
01:32out and about throughout Tuesday. Then as we head into Wednesday we get a slight lull in between
01:38weather systems so it will turn a little bit calmer, there'll be more sunshine around, also this
01:44weather front pushing into more southern areas and low pressure never too far away from the north and
01:50west so fairly brisk winds across more north western areas. Elsewhere a calmer day than Tuesday to come
01:57on Wednesday. Temperatures a little bit higher once again with those lighter winds, a bit more sunshine,
02:02fewer showers as well so we'll be touching 20 degrees across the southeast again in the high teens for many
02:09areas but where the winds remain quite strong it's going to still be quite a cool day across the north
02:14and west and still across the southwest actually quite breezy and with a few showers around but
02:19they're not going to be as heavy we're not expecting any thunderstorms or any hail through
02:22Wednesday. Another mild night as we head Wednesday into Thursday we've got the next weather front pushing
02:29up from the south and west but this time high pressure starts to build up from the near continent
02:34so that's going to push these weather fronts up towards more northwestern areas they won't push
02:39as far east from Thursday onwards and that's the signs of the drier warmer weather moving in across
02:46more southeastern areas but for the north it's going to be another pretty damp start to the day
02:51as this weather front pushes northeastwards it's going to linger across parts of northern Ireland
02:56western Scotland most likely meanwhile across the south and east more in the way of sunshine
03:02particularly later on in the day and with southerly winds building in we'll start to see temperatures
03:08rising towards those mid-20s 24 degrees it's quite likely through Thursday and widely as you can see
03:15temperatures into the 20s across much of central England down towards south Wales will be in the
03:2020s as well the northeast England as well so I think for most of England and Wales we're going to
03:26be
03:26noticing that warming trend but the wet weather will last across parts of northern Ireland
03:31and western Scotland until the latter parts of the week and then another change Thursday into Friday
03:38yes we've got high pressure building in but we've still got slightly unsettled weather nearby with this
03:43weather front still drifting across more western areas that will allow some showers to likely break
03:50out through Friday so a cloudier day across parts of northern Ireland western Scotland sunshine to start
03:56for the rest of the UK but also potentially some heavy showers developing across the south coast
04:03they may not look much on these graphics at the moment but there is potential for some quite heavy
04:08possibly thundery showers later in the day on Friday across the south coast of England but elsewhere
04:16it will likely be the warmest day of the year so far as temperatures are set to climb towards the
04:22high
04:2220s 28 degrees quite likely across more southeastern areas of England the mid-20s as well for parts of
04:31northern England parts of Wales as well so widely pretty warm day fairly light winds but a risk of
04:38some showers across the northwest and the south coast just through the latter part of the day so you do
04:44need to keep an eye on it it's not to say it's going to be a wet day wherever you
04:47are now the bank holiday
04:49weekend where we hold on to that shower risk through Saturday particularly across more southern and
04:53central areas but then high pressure is set to build in more dominantly Sunday into Monday so we keep
05:00hold of the warmth through the bank holiday weekend potentially some thundery downpours
05:05through Saturday and then it should get drier through the second part of the bank holiday weekend but of
05:11course we'll be keeping you up to date throughout this week as you make your plans ahead of the bank
05:16holiday if you
05:16have any thank you so much for joining me I'll see you again very soon bye bye
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