Met Office Wednesday Morning Weather Forecast 01/05/2024

01 May- National Weather Forecast presented by Alex Deakin

Transcript

00:00Good morning and welcome to May, which by my reckoning owes us quite a few flowers given

00:06all the April showers. Now, there will still be some showers around today, but there will

00:11also be some spring sunshine to be had. We're going to flip things around a little bit,

00:15though, because after a fine day yesterday across much of the east, it is a drabber day,

00:20a much duller day for northeast England and eastern Scotland. A little bit of patchy rain

00:24at times here, turning particularly damp across parts of Aberdeenshire through the late morning

00:29into the afternoon. A few showers dotted around elsewhere, but overall, a much drier and brighter

00:34day for Wales, southwest England and Northern Ireland. Some good spars of sunshine coming

00:38through here, brightening up at times across East Anglia and western Scotland, doing pretty

00:43well for sunshine and also temperatures 18, 19 degrees likely here and further south where

00:49we see some sunshine coming through again. Temperatures getting into the high teens.

00:53It's going to feel a lot cooler, though, across northeast England and eastern Scotland. Much

00:58more cloud here today and that breeze coming in from the North Sea. Let's take a look at

01:03what happens this evening because we do need to keep our eyes down to the south. Some heavy

01:07showers coming up here, likely to see some thunderstorms developing, particularly as

01:12we go through the early hours. Parts of Wales, southern England, maybe even getting up into

01:16the Midlands. You may well get woken up tonight by a rumble of thunder or some flashes of

01:21lightning across parts of the south. So something to be aware of. A lot of heavy rain falling

01:26in a short space of time as well could generate a lot of spray and surface water on the roads

01:31for tomorrow morning's commute. Elsewhere, generally staying dry and temperatures mostly

01:36holding up in double figures across England and Wales, eight or nine, the low in towns

01:40and cities further north. A cloudy start then to Thursday one way or another. Still some

01:46heavy bursts of rain early on across the southwest. That should tend to clear away, but always

01:52the likelihood of further showers across southern parts of England, mid and south Wales.

01:57That breeze strengthening coming in from the North Sea, that's going to bring some fret

02:01and har at times along these North Sea coasts. It's going to be patchy in nature, however,

02:06and a good part of northwest Scotland, northern Ireland, northwest England, much of the Midlands

02:11down towards East Anglia should have a fine and sunny day tomorrow. And with warmer air

02:16in places across the UK, it'll feel pretty pleasant as well. Temperatures 19, 20. One

02:22or two places, particularly western Scotland, could squeak a little higher than that, maybe

02:2521, 22 in a few locations. Much cooler with this breeze coming in from the North Sea and

02:31where it stays cloudy on those eastern coast temperatures struggling somewhat. And cooler

02:35across the southwest here as well, where we keep the thicker cloud, particularly if we

02:40keep some showers. Temperatures really struggle, just 13 or 14 Celsius. This map shows those

02:46temperatures when compared to the May average. So you can see that sunniest last temperatures

02:51well above average, particularly so in western Scotland, significantly above average here,

02:56whereas it will be that cooler feel on some of those North Sea coasts and with a cloudier

03:00weather down towards the southwest. Plenty going on. And if you want more, particularly

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