Met Office Wednesday Afternoon Weather Forecast 31/07/24

31 July - National weather forecast presented by Annie Shuttleworth.

Transcript

00:00Good afternoon. There's the potential for some quite impactful thunderstorms through

00:03the next couple of days, but for most of us, it will be staying dry, warm and sunny. This

00:09is a satellite picture from overnight. You can see the radar showing heavy thunderstorms

00:13across northern areas of Europe that did clip the coast of the southeast, bringing lightning

00:19here overnight. Elsewhere, though, it's been a fairly dry and bright start, quite a chilly

00:23start across parts of Scotland, but it will remain dry and fine across much of Scotland,

00:28Northern Ireland, Northern England and across much of southern areas of England and Wales

00:33too. Plenty of sunshine to come throughout this afternoon. However, across the southeast,

00:38that risk of thunderstorms does continue and they could bring some quite torrential downpours.

00:42So do keep an eye on the radar on our weather app if you're in these areas. There is a warning

00:47in force. But as I said, for most of us, it's going to be a dry and another warm day. Temperatures

00:52are likely to climb into the 30s for some areas, but quite widely across England and

00:56Wales into the high 20s. The humidity will slowly start to rise through today as well.

01:02Further north for Northern Ireland and Scotland, it's nowhere near as warm, but it will be

01:06quite pleasant in the sunshine, I think. Still fresher, though, across the far northwest

01:10of Scotland, where there will be a risk of some drizzly rain overnight. We've got weather

01:13fronts still close by to the far north and west. But it's overnight that the thunderstorm

01:18risk really does pick up. We've got to see a few areas develop across Wales into northeastern

01:23areas of England, as well as across the southeast as well. Now, these could bring some very

01:28torrential downpours, hail and some frequent lightning as well. Away from the areas of

01:33thunderstorms, though, it's going to be a fairly humid night. Temperatures quite widely

01:37in the high teens and even across in parts of Scotland where it was a fresher night last

01:41night, it will slowly start to be pick up over here as well. So a fairly muggy start

01:47to the day, risk of some torrential downpours continuing through the morning, particularly

01:51across eastern areas of England. Well, that's where we have a warning in force spreading

01:55into parts of Wales as well. But it's into the afternoon. Once this main area moves out

01:59the way, we could see further thunderstorms start to pop up. These bring a risk of some

02:04localised flooding. We could see up to 100 millimetres of rain falling in a few hours

02:09if you see a few thunderstorms falling in the same place. So do keep up to date with

02:13the forecast for the next few days if you're in that warning area. Further north, though,

02:17it should stay much drier across parts of Wales and Northern Ireland through much of

02:22the day. Temperatures again into the low 20s, so quite pleasant in the sunshine. Fairly

02:26light winds as well for the bulk of northern areas of the UK. In the south as well, still

02:31feeling quite hot and more humid tomorrow. Temperatures widely again into the high 20s.

02:37And the humid theme will continue into Friday as well. We've got a continued risk of these

02:42heavy downpours pushing eastwards. The warning is still in force through Thursday evening.

02:48From the west, though, it does turn much drier. And actually, as we head into Friday and the

02:52weekend, it looks like we'll see a change to much fresher conditions. But you can find

02:56more details in that on our latest 10-day trend with Alex Burkhill on YouTube. See you

03:01again soon. Bye bye.