Met Office Wednesday evening weather forecast 08/05/2024

8 May - National weather forecast presented by Annie Shuttleworth.

Transcript

00:00Hello, good evening. It's been another dry and fine day for most of us and there'll be

00:04more dry weather to come tomorrow, more sunshine as well. However, across the

00:08north-west some cloud and rain is arriving through this evening. That's as

00:12this wiggling, waving feature of a front is approaching from the north-west. It

00:16won't make too much progress elsewhere across the country as high pressure is

00:19building, so that makes for another dry night for many areas of England and

00:23Wales. We'll be a bit cloudier across northern England, parts of Northern

00:27Ireland and in particular across Scotland through tonight just as we're

00:29closer to that weather front and there'll be persistent rain moving in

00:33particularly across the north-west of Scotland, the Western Isles and the

00:35Highlands in particular. It should stay dry elsewhere through this evening

00:40apart from a few specks of rain over the higher ground in northern England and

00:43it's going to be another mild start to the day on Thursday. There could be some

00:47mist and fog around particularly across coastal areas of England and Wales but

00:51that should lift and clear quite quickly just as it did today and it will give

00:55way to another dry and bright day. I think sunshine will be more widely felt

00:59through Thursday compared to today and that sunshine will spread up towards

01:03northern areas of Scotland by the end of the day and in the sunshine it's going

01:08to feel even warmer than it has done on Wednesday. Temperatures climbing quite

01:12widely into the 20s across parts of England and Wales. We could see 23 or 24

01:16degrees across eastern areas of Wales, central parts of England but even across

01:21Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland. Temperatures climbing towards the high

01:24teens which is above average for the time of year but just where that cloud

01:27hangs around for longer across the Western Isles and the Northern Isles,

01:31temperatures will be capped into the lower teens. That will lead us into

01:35another dry evening as that band of cloud and rain continues to push further

01:39north so I think more and most of us should see a dry night on Thursday night.

01:43Some mist and fog could form once again, it's particularly coastal areas

01:46where that mist and fog is most likely. So potentially a bit of a dull start to

01:51the day for some areas but it should be another dry night and another mild

01:56start to the day on Friday. And once again, although the sunshine may be a

02:00little hazier on Friday, I think many of us are going to get away with quite a

02:04fine day. Plenty of long-lived sunshine, particularly into the afternoon. It's

02:08going to feel even warmer in the sunshine than it has done so far this

02:12week. We could get a bit of cloud bubbling up into the afternoon across

02:15parts of England and Wales. That could give way to a couple of showers through

02:18Friday evening but I think most of us should stay dry for the next few days

02:23and temperatures on Friday could climb towards 24, possibly 25 degrees but

02:28quite widely we'll be into the 20s across the UK. So certainly a warm day

02:33for the time of year and those temperatures will climb a little bit

02:36higher for Saturday as well but you can find more details on your forecast for

02:40further ahead with our latest 10-day trend on YouTube. Bye-bye.