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A brighter day is expected across the UK today although not especially warm. Generally dry but light showers in the South West, parts of Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and northern England. Temperatures slightly below the average, but pleasant in any sunny spells. Cooler especially in western areas with a slightly stronger breeze. Low pressure arrives overnight, with prolonged outbreaks of rain expected moving in from the west into tomorrow. - This is the Met Office UK weather forecast for the afternoon of 05/06/2026. Bringing you today's forecast is Alex Deakin.
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00:00Hello, a drier, brighter day for most of us today. Don't expect it to be too warm out there,
00:06but many of us will see some sunny spells. Don't get used to it either, because as the
00:10satellite picture shows, the view from space, a big mass of cloud, and it is kind of heading
00:16our way. A deepening area of low pressure, or at least it has been deepening through the early
00:21hours of Friday morning. Pretty intense this low. It'll weaken a little as it approaches the UK,
00:26but it will bring us a spell of wet and very windy weather tomorrow. Let's get back to today. It's
00:32not completely dry out there. There are a few showers around, particularly in western areas,
00:35so parts of Wales, southwest England, northwest England, seeing a few showers. Quite a few for
00:39northern Ireland and western Scotland, but they're not as intense as the downpours that we saw
00:44yesterday, particularly in the south. It's not as windy either, and certainly many eastern parts
00:49will stay completely dry and bright with some sunny spells. As I mentioned, though, it's not particularly
00:54warm temperatures around, or a touch below the average for the time of year. But if you get out
00:59in the sunny spells, and with lighter winds, particularly over central and eastern parts,
01:04compared to yesterday, it'll feel a little warmer, with highs here of 18, 19, perhaps 20 Celsius.
01:09It is on the cool side, particularly around the western coast, with the breeze here just 14 or 15
01:14Celsius. And then down to the southwest, that low arrives, already bringing rain to Isles of Scilly
01:20and Cornwall into the late afternoon, and then through the evening, spreading into Wales, across
01:24southwest England, up across northern Ireland by midnight, and then much of England will be seeing
01:29outbreaks of rain by the time we get to dawn on Saturday. And the wind's really whipping up in this
01:34zone. You can see the swirl there. That's the low pressure heading its way across the Republic of
01:38Ireland, but the strongest winds on its southern flank. So coming into south Wales and southwest
01:43England, you might get woken up by the windowsills rattling first thing in the morning. Elsewhere,
01:49I say that cloud and rain will move in, which will keep the temperatures up with some clearer skies
01:52over northern Scotland. We could see temperatures dipping to single figures here, but elsewhere,
01:57quite a mild start to Saturday. But it will also be quite a soggy start, a grey, damp start.
02:03Outbreaks of rain slowly swinging their way across pretty much all areas. Northeast Scotland favours
02:09for some brightness, and it may brighten up for a time over parts of the Midlands, Wales, and southern
02:14England. A bit of a gap between these two bands of rain, that first initial weather front, and then
02:19another one coming in behind. Let's just focus in on those winds, because as I said, getting very gusty
02:24through the night and staying windy through much of Saturday in this zone. Unusually windy for the
02:30time of year. Quite a few events going on, of course, because it is Saturday. So just bear that in
02:34mind. It is
02:35going to be very blustery, particularly across Cornwall and Pembrokeshire on Saturday morning,
02:39but right across the southwestern quarter of the UK. Fairly windy conditions through Saturday.
02:44Will brighten up, as I said, in some places, but then we are looking at some heavy showers coming
02:49in, increasing risk of thunderstorms through the afternoon, particularly for Northern Ireland,
02:53into parts of Wales in this secondary band. Elsewhere, I say we'll see some sunny spells,
02:58but then some heavy showers also possible come the afternoon over northern England. Perhaps turning a
03:03bit drier in the southwest come the afternoon into the evening, but staying blustery and gusty here
03:09throughout the day. Largely dry across northeast Scotland, and with a bit of sunshine, temperatures
03:14creeping up to similar values to today. So a roundabout or a touch below average for the time of year,
03:20and certainly feeling cooler with that wind across the south. As we go through Saturday evening,
03:25still some heavy downpours over Northern Ireland, Western Scotland, Northern England, parts of the
03:30Midlands. Still the odd rumble of thunder going as these heavy showers do continue. And then as we head
03:37into Sunday, one weather system clears away, but there's another little curl, another area of low
03:42pressure, bringing more wet weather here. And again, the isobar's not too far apart. So again,
03:47could be quite windy, but on Sunday, more likely to see the strongest winds in Western Scotland,
03:51Northern Ireland, where there will be further outbreaks of rain. Some showery rain for West Wales and
03:57Northern England, maybe the Midlands, but much of Eastern England, particularly East Anglia and the
04:01Southeast, looking largely dry on Sunday. We'll see some spells of sunshine as well. And although
04:07there will be a bit of a breeze here, that's where we'll see the highest temperatures with some sunshine,
04:11quite a big difference. We could get it to 21, 22 degrees Celsius, whereas further West, again,
04:16feeling cool with the wind and the outbreaks of rain with highs of only 15 or 16 degrees Celsius.
04:22The weather remaining pretty mixed as we head into it next week as well. You want to keep up to
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