Fine with sunshine across the southeast. Front bringing rain across Scotland and Northern Ireland, moving slowly into and stalling across Northern England, Wales and the West Midlands with showers following. Warm ahead of this front, fresher behind. This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 27/08/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.
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00:00Hello, very good day to you. In the southeast, it's going to stay pretty fine through today.
00:05Lots of warm sunshine to be had. Elsewhere, a slightly different story. There's a front
00:10making its way across the country, but it's moving pretty slowly. And so it's already
00:15brought a fair bit of rain to parts of Northern Ireland, parts of Scotland, Dumfries, Galloway
00:19area. We've seen rainfall totals building up, some localised impacts here. And now that
00:23front's pushing into parts of northwest England and western parts of Wales as well. But this
00:28front is really going to make pretty slow progress. So as we go through this afternoon,
00:33it's going to linger and stall over parts of northern England, maybe reaching the West
00:38Midlands and also across a large chunk of Wales, there will be lots of cloud and outbreaks
00:44of rain. To the northwest of the front, something a bit showery at times, some showers across
00:49parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Towards the southeast of the front, like I said at
00:53the start, lots of fine, sunny weather to be had. And with that, then temperatures rising,
00:58it is going to feel pleasantly warm. Temperatures peaking around 24, 25, maybe 26 Celsius around
01:04London. Towards the northwest of the front, though, it is going to be quite a bit fresher
01:08than this. Now, this front really doesn't make a huge amount of progress overnight.
01:13Watch out, there could be some heavier bursts, perhaps even a rumble of thunder mixed in
01:16with it across parts of northern England, Wales and into the Midlands. There could also
01:21be some mist and fog patches developing, particularly in parts of the southwest around the front,
01:27where there will also be a bit of rain to come. Further showery bursts across parts
01:30of Northern Ireland and Scotland. Some of these could be a bit heavy at times, but across
01:35central southeastern parts of England, it's actually going to stay largely fine. And even
01:40though there will be quite a bit of clear skies, temperatures not dropping a huge amount
01:44here. Some relatively warm air keeping many places up around the middle, even high teens
01:49in some places. And as we go through Wednesday itself, still have this front lingering. So
01:54further rain at times across parts of northern England, Wales, southwest England as well,
01:59could turn a little bit heavy, perhaps. But towards the east southeast of this, sticking
02:03with the largely fine picture, maybe a bit more cloud than through today, but nonetheless
02:07still pretty settled. But across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, heavy showery
02:12rain arriving and like I say, some intense downbursts associated with that. Now, the
02:17front that lingers as we go through tomorrow really does mark the boundary between something
02:22a bit fresher towards the north and west and something markedly warmer towards the
02:26east southeast of the UK. Here, we could see temperatures rising into the high 20s, perhaps
02:31so 26, 27, maybe even 28 or 29 Celsius. So feeling pretty warm, if not hot for some of
02:39us, especially in the sunshine towards the southeast. Now, as we go through later on
02:43this week, there is a lot of dry, settled weather to come, particularly towards the
02:48south and east. Further north and west, you have a greater chance of seeing some showers,
02:52especially on Thursday. But generally, high pressure means it is going to be largely fine
02:57for many of us. That being said, by day, temperatures won't be quite as high as on Wednesday. Still
03:02pretty warm and around average for the time of year. But do watch out for some perhaps
03:06notably cool nights to come. Now, this week, we are launching our storm names for the 2024
03:122025 storm season. You can find out more about why we name our storms and what's happened
03:18in previous years in our deep dive, which will be available on YouTube later on with
03:23Aidan and Will Lang. I'll see you again soon. Bye bye.