Weekend – Will the sun shine this bank holiday weekend?
The late May Bank Holiday will start mostly dry and bright with sunny spells on Saturday. During the weekend cloudier skies will develop and it’ll be turning cooler with showers by Monday. Will you dodge the downpours?
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00:00Hello. The late Maybank holiday is upon us.
00:03And how's the weather looking?
00:05Well, if you have to find dry, sunny weather,
00:07Saturday is your best bet.
00:09Most places will have some sunshine on Saturday.
00:11It'll feel quite warm for most as well.
00:14We will see changes through the weekend with
00:16an increase in cloud through Sunday.
00:18And that leads to a much cooler,
00:20fresher day for most on Monday.
00:23And that will be a case of dodging the showers as well.
00:25Some sunshine on Monday, but also
00:27plenty of showers to come too.
00:29What's going on?
00:30Well, the bigger picture shows high pressure nearby,
00:32but this area of low pressure is creeping in.
00:34Not many isobars across the charts,
00:37which means that the weather's fairly slow moving.
00:39Not great big changes into Saturday.
00:42There's still an old weather front across Northern Scotland
00:44bringing cloud and patchy rain.
00:46And we will see cloud and rain creeping in
00:48to parts of Western Scotland
00:50and Northern Ireland through the day.
00:51One or two showers are possible across the South.
00:54But for the bulk of England, Wales, Southern Scotland,
00:57it's a dry, bright day
00:58with some sunny spells.
01:00And it's actually quite warm again by the afternoon.
01:02Temperatures likely to be up into the high teens,
01:05low 20s across parts of the South.
01:07Cooler with the thicker cloud in the far Northwest.
01:11Now, that thicker cloud in the far Northwest
01:13is from this weather front in this area of low pressure,
01:15which is influencing things more and more
01:17through the weekends.
01:18The isobars are squeezing together,
01:20the breeze picking up,
01:21and this weather front in particular
01:23swinging across the country on Sunday
01:25will bring more cloud
01:27and also some outbreaks of rain initially in the West.
01:29So much of eastern England will have a dry,
01:32fine start to Sunday
01:33and will probably stay dry in East Anglia
01:35and the Southeast for most of the day.
01:37Elsewhere, though, we will see at least a spell
01:39of rather dull and drab weather
01:41with some outbreaks of rain
01:43that clear through from Scotland and Northern Ireland
01:45to bring some afternoon sunshine
01:47and a few showers and probably drying up,
01:49brightening up too late in the day for Northern England
01:51and parts of West Wales.
01:53A line of rain and drizzle is that weather front
01:56and it also is a cold front,
01:58so it marks the boundary between
02:00still some quite warm and humid air
02:02to the South and East
02:03where temperatures could again get up into the high teens,
02:06maybe low 20s.
02:07So quite a humid feel here
02:09and fresher, cooler air following in behind.
02:11And it's the fresher air that wins out
02:14as we go into Bank Holiday Monday.
02:15That weather front swings through
02:17and just look at this cooler air
02:19pushing its way right across into Southern portions
02:22by the time we get to Bank Holiday Monday.
02:24And with low pressure sitting across the UK,
02:26well, that does mean there will be showers.
02:28In fact, it could be quite a wet day
02:29for parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
02:31For England and Wales,
02:32well, you'd be dodging and dancing between the downpours.
02:35It won't rain all day,
02:36but there will be some quite heavy showers around.
02:38But between the showers,
02:40there will at times still be some sunshine.
02:43So it is a bit of a mixed picture
02:44through the course of the weekend.
02:45It's one thing you'll definitely notice,
02:47those temperatures dropping away,
02:48a much fresher feel by the time we get to Monday,
02:51temperatures more widely in the mid-teens,
02:53maybe the high teens across the South,
02:56but the temperatures over to the low 20s
02:58will be a thing of the past.
02:59So it's definitely turning cooler this weekend.
03:01Overall, a bit of a mixed picture.
03:03If you're after some fine and sunny weather,
03:05then Saturday is your best bet.
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