Thunderstorms in the south bringing a risk of hail, heavy rain and frequent lightning, with yellow warnings issued, but largely sunny spells towards the south east. Large amounts of cloud and some drizzle for eastern Scotland and northeast England, but fine and sunny for western Scotland and Northern Ireland. Cool along eastern coasts and under the cloud across the northeast but warmer elsewhere - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 20/09/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
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00:00Keep up to date with the weather through the next couple of days, there's an
00:04awful lot going on. The best way to do that of course if you're watching on
00:06YouTube is to hit subscribe. Some thunderstorms in the forecast
00:10particularly across the south, meanwhile much of the north will stay dry and fine
00:14thanks to this area of high pressure that's been with us all week. But further
00:17south things are changing, lower pressure is edging northwards we've
00:22already seen one or two thundery downpours and we'll see more of them
00:26developing across the south as the day goes on. Large hailstones, lots of
00:30lightning and the potential for some flooding from the heavy rain that comes
00:34along with those downpours. A bit of drizzle here and there over northern
00:38England and particularly along the coast and over the hills. Staying quite grey and
00:42drab in parts of eastern Scotland but much of northern and western Scotland
00:47and Northern Ireland dry, fine, sunny, another lovely day here. Plenty of
00:51sunshine across east Anglia in the southeast too but there is a fairly
00:54brisk breeze bringing a cooler feel on some coasts particularly where it stays
00:57grey in the northeast. In the south though temperatures could easily get
01:01into the low maybe even mid-twenties in one or two places, 20 degrees in western
01:06Scotland again as well. But across the south we do have to cater for these
01:10heavy thundery showers that are developing. Not everywhere in this
01:14warning area will catch a downpour but where they do occur lots of
01:18lightning, a lot of surface water on the roads, hailstones also into the
01:24equation so that could cause some disruption. So we have that yellow one
01:28warning in place for today and as the thunderstorms fade through the evening
01:33many places will become dry but the cloud will then spill back in land
01:37overnight over the Midlands and Wales back into eastern Scotland. Again some
01:41drizzle here and there but notice further heavy thundery showers coming up
01:45from the south so there is another yellow Met Office warning in place for
01:49Saturday. Quite a mild night again for most with some clearer skies in western
01:52Scotland. We'll dip down into single figures here but another cracking day
01:56in western Scotland generally on Saturday by and large fine too for
02:00Northern Ireland. Some sunny spells developing after a cloudy start but in
02:04the south again we'll have these hit-and-miss thundery showers developing
02:08again. Hailstones likely, lots of flashes of lightning as well as the potential
02:14for the downpours to cause some local flooding. So another Met Office yellow
02:19warning in place for that. The warning area is slightly larger but again not
02:23everywhere in the warning area will catch a downpour. There will still be
02:26some decent spells of sunshine across the south which will lift those
02:30temperatures maybe up again to 25 degrees Celsius. Noticeably cooler on
02:35some of these North Sea coasts where it stays drab. Newcastle, Edinburgh only 15
02:40or 16 Celsius. Yet again western Scotland could reach 20 Celsius in the
02:44sunshine. Still a few of these heavy showers around on Saturday evening over
02:48parts of the Midlands, Wales, southwest England in particular. So don't get
02:51caught out by a downpour if you're heading out on Saturday night. Should
02:55tend to fade from the Midlands and southeast England as we go through the
02:59evening time. Notice this cloud a feature of the weather throughout the
03:03weekend across northeast England and eastern Scotland and then further heavy
03:07rain coming up across parts of the south during Sunday also. Maybe not so
03:13much hit and miss in nature this is more of a broader area of wet weather but
03:17again potentially causing some disruption and we again have fine and
03:21sunny weather generally speaking for Northern Ireland and western Scotland. So
03:25as I said quite a bit going on where it's sunny temperatures high teens low
03:3020s where it stays grey across the northeast low teens at best. So do keep
03:35up to date those warnings you can check them out for yourselves on the website
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