A wet evening to come with outbreaks of rain continuing to affect northern and central areas though the evening and into Friday. Further south should remain dry with some clear spells to the south east. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 23/05/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.
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00:00 Hello, very good evening to you. We are going to see some largely dry weather across southern
00:04 parts as we go through the end of the week, but it's a different story further north.
00:08 There are still some outbreaks of rain to come because the same area of low pressure
00:13 which has brought all the wet weather that we've seen recently is still lingering across
00:18 northern areas. As a result, outbreaks of rain will continue to feed down from the north
00:23 as we go through the end of Thursday and overnight into Friday. Some of this rain could be a
00:28 little bit on the heavy side. There may still be some further impacts as a result, but the
00:33 rain is generally easing. Towards the south, we are likely to say mostly dry. In fact,
00:38 there could be some clear skies as we go through the early hours of Friday morning, under which
00:42 it's likely to turn a little chilly, a bit fresh perhaps for some, just about dipping
00:46 into single figures. Elsewhere with the cloud, the rain and some blustery winds, it's going
00:51 to be markedly milder, most places holding up in double digits. As we go through Friday
00:56 itself then, we stick with a north-south split of sorts. Towards the south, the greater chance
01:01 of staying dry and a greater chance of seeing some sunshine breaking through, but I am expecting
01:06 some showers to develop across some southern areas as we head through the day. Further
01:10 north, there will be a bit more cloud around and some showery outbreaks of rain and some
01:15 of the showers across parts of Scotland, northern England could turn quite heavy. There could
01:19 even be the odd rumble of thunder as well. Now, temperatures are going to be near normal,
01:24 perhaps a little bit below average for the time of year for some of us. In the south,
01:29 southeast, may scrape to high teens, possibly low 20s, so not feeling too bad, pleasantly
01:34 warm in any sunny breaks. Further north where you have the cloud, feeling fresher, but it
01:39 will probably feel a little bit warmer than it has done recently because it's not going
01:43 to be as wet and not as blustery either. Most of the showers will die out and clear away
01:48 as we go through tomorrow evening, through Friday evening, and so it is going to turn
01:52 largely dry overnight, sticking with some cloud across northern parts. Further south
01:56 though, largely clear skies developing and as a result, a couple of things, we could
02:01 see some mist and fog patches, but we're also going to see our temperatures dropping a bit
02:05 lower than they have done through some recent nights. So it could be a bit of a fresh, chilly
02:09 start compared to recently for many of us first thing on Saturday morning. Now, any
02:14 mist and fog on Saturday should clear away quite quickly and then it is going to be the
02:18 driest, brightest, sunniest day of the long weekend for most of us. Yes, there will be
02:23 a few showers developing in some central northern parts perhaps, and we are going to see a spell
02:28 of rain trying to push in from the east, affecting some North Sea coastal parts and another spell
02:33 of rain coming in from the west, perhaps affecting the tip of Wales, Devon, Cornwall as we go
02:37 through the afternoon. But like I say, there will be some decent dry, if not sunny weather
02:42 around for large chunks of the UK on Saturday. With that then, temperatures are probably
02:46 going to be a bit higher than they are on Friday, a greater chance of seeing high teens
02:50 or low 20s. So in any sunshine, feeling pretty warm indeed. Later on in the weekend, we are
02:56 going to see this wet weather across the west pushing its way northeastwards as we go into
03:01 Sunday and behind it then plenty of showers. Some of these could be heavy, could see some
03:05 impacts from the intense downpours in association with these, but that all shifts its way northeastwards
03:10 as we go towards Bank Holiday Monday. And there are some signs that we could see a slice
03:14 of something a bit drier, a bit sunnier perhaps, developing across some west and southwestern
03:19 areas as we go through Bank Holiday Monday. So some hopes that there could be some decent
03:23 dry weather around and worth bearing in mind at this time of year with the sort of temperatures
03:27 we're expecting, it will feel pretty warm in any sunshine too. If you want to know more
03:31 about the forecast we can expect over the long Bank Holiday weekend, do head to our
03:35 YouTube channel. I'll see you again soon. Bye bye.
03:37 Bye-bye.