Wednesday afternoon forecast 20/07/22

20 July - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin

Transcript

00:00Welcome to your latest updates from the Met Office. It was always going to be

00:04cooler today, still very warm in some spots but of course it's always relative.

00:10Some heavy showers just grazing the eastern sides of England and we're

00:14likely to see one or two heavy thundery showers breaking out during the

00:18afternoon for which we have a Met Office yellow warning in place. Quite a lot of

00:22cloud around but we are likely to see some thundery showers breaking out over

00:26parts of the Midlands, eastern and southeastern England and it's in this

00:30zone where temperatures are again going to get to well above average but of

00:34course nowhere near as high as yesterday. We could peak still at 30 degrees

00:38Celsius but further west we've already started to see things cooling off

00:42considerably and temperatures back much closer to average low to mid-20s. The

00:47thundery showers though as I said could cause some disruption, a lot of rains

00:51falling in a short space of time. Very hit-and-miss though in this central and

00:55eastern zone of England, not everywhere seeing those downpours. Of course rain

00:59will be welcome across the east where it has been very dry recently. Elsewhere

01:03most places dry, clear spells allowing temperatures in some rural spots to dip

01:08down to single figures and most towns and cities 12 to 14 or 15 so again much

01:14cooler, much more comfortable. Of course it does take a few days and nights for

01:19your house to cool down so it'll probably still feel pretty warm through

01:22the evening time. Any showers dying out through the early hours and then

01:27Thursday generally a dry day maybe one or two scattered showers over northwest

01:30England, southwest Scotland. Quite a bit of cloud around but we should see some

01:33sunny spells breaking through particularly West Wales, southwest

01:36England, western and northern parts of Scotland where temperatures will again

01:40be in the mid-teens. Elsewhere low 20s maybe mid-20s across the south again

01:46much closer to average for the time of year. A bit of a breeze picking up along

01:50that east coast over the next couple of days making it feel a little fresher

01:53here and perhaps at times just threatening some mist and low cloud.

01:56Again one or two showers continuing into the evening over northwest England but

02:00otherwise most places dry. We're back to much more typical summer conditions now

02:05over the next few days, high pressure moving in. There's the threat of some

02:08thunderstorms across the south on Friday and then we look out to the Atlantic as

02:13low pressure and weather front start to move in and as they do they'll bring

02:17cooler and wetter weather into the northern and western parts of the UK

02:21but notice down to the south and east and the influence of high pressure

02:26actually temperatures could rise again at this weekend so we could see

02:29temperatures back into the 30s across parts of eastern England particularly so

02:33on Sunday. Nothing like yesterday's temperatures of course but just you know

02:39it's still plenty of warmth around. So more mixed conditions over the next few

02:42days as I said and do watch out for those thunderstorms, more details of that

02:46weather warning on our app and on our website.