Friday evening forecast 07/07/23

7 July - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

Transcript

00:00The humidity is rising this weekend. The heat affecting eastern parts of the UK

00:06before the thundery breakdown and then the much fresher air from the west.

00:11We've already seen some lively showers this afternoon and across Scotland and

00:15Northern Ireland overnight the cloud clears with many parts of the UK seeing

00:18a fine night but an increasingly warm night. We've got this southerly breeze

00:22bringing higher humidity from the near continent and also by the end of the

00:26night an area of cloud into the southwest with some showers here but a

00:31muggy night wherever you are 18 or 19 Celsius in the south mid-teens further

00:34north uncomfortable for sleeping for many places. We've got low pressure

00:39sitting to the west as we start off the weekend that's the reason we're bringing

00:43this humid air up from the south a plume of especially high humidities ahead of a

00:48cold front which is sweeping in later in the day and that cold front bringing the

00:52areas of cloud and showers into southwest England Wales first thing as

00:56those showers move into central parts of the UK and interact with the hotter air

01:00ahead well we're likely to see some thunderstorms intense bursts of rain 50

01:05millimetres in two hours or so frequent lightning and large hail all a

01:09possibility but not a guarantee these will be hit and miss thunderstorms

01:13where they do occur some serious impacts may well result that's why a yellow

01:18thunderstorm warning has been issued ahead of the storms there's the

01:23potential for temperatures to get into the low 30s for East Anglia depending on

01:27how much the cloud advances from the West and how quickly that happens but

01:31for Northern Ireland Wales in the southwest after some early showers

01:34actually fresher conditions arrive here albeit with sunny spells and a largely

01:38fine afternoon with temperatures back into the low 20s a breezy day for many

01:42actually especially towards the northeast of Scotland although mostly

01:46fine weather here until the end of Saturday that's when the thunderstorms

01:50and outbreaks of rain push into northeast Scotland clearing away from

01:53England and Wales before further showers arrive into the early hours of Tuesday

01:58in some western areas but it's another fairly muggy night temperatures in the

02:03mid-teens perhaps not quite as warm as Friday night however and Sunday itself

02:08starts off largely fine especially crossing in the Wales some sunny spells

02:11first thing there's always the chance that we'll see some further thundery

02:14downpours or some longer spells of rain pushing up from the continent to affect

02:18southeastern parts and they'll also be hit and miss showers and thunderstorms

02:21affecting Northern Ireland Wales in the southwest with the most intense burst

02:24there for Northern Ireland where there is a yellow thunderstorm warning

02:28otherwise away from any showers there will be some sunny spells and it'll

02:32certainly be a cooler afternoon compared with Saturday with temperatures back

02:36towards average for the time of year or slightly above in a few spots

02:40particularly towards the east then into the start of next week where we're going

02:44to see a very mixed picture further sunny spells and showers even some

02:49thunderstorms in places those temperatures cooling off