Met Office Weather 2nd May

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00:00 Hello again. After a lively night in some places with heavy rain and thunderstorms,

00:07 the weather eases a little during Thursday but we're still going to see some outbreaks

00:12 of rain, even some thundery downpours through the rest of the day. It's a fairly messy situation

00:18 across Europe at the moment, big temperature contrasts and low pressure sitting across

00:22 central Europe. That's the recipe for some heavy rain for some. But an area of low pressure

00:28 to the west of the UK and one across central Europe brings a plume of warmth in from the

00:35 east. And as that clashes with the cooler air coming around the low to the west, we've

00:39 got this frontal boundary and that's been the focus for the outbreaks of rain overnight.

00:44 And that will continue to be the focus for some heavy downpours through parts of Wales,

00:49 south-west England and further thundery showers potentially moving up across central and southern

00:54 parts of England into mid Wales through the morning. Much of this eases by the afternoon

00:59 although the focus shifts north so north Wales, north Midlands could see some thundery downpours

01:05 by the afternoon. Much quieter across northern parts of the UK, Northern Ireland, Northern

01:10 England, Scotland mostly dry. Some cloud coming into north-eastern parts, north-east England,

01:16 south-east Scotland for example. And that's really going to limit temperatures here with

01:20 11 or 12 Celsius possible around coastal parts and that low cloud making it feel quite miserable

01:26 with the wind from the North Sea. Meanwhile, we've got some real warmth to the air mass

01:32 across western Scotland, a lot of sunshine here and in some spots for western Scotland

01:37 we could get up to 20 to 23 Celsius. Likewise for north-west England into the Midlands,

01:43 east Anglia even. Depending on sun amounts, depending on where showers end up, there's

01:49 the potential for low 20s. Cooler though where we've got the outbreaks of rain continuing

01:53 across south Wales and the south-west. And that continued northward shift carries on

01:59 through Thursday evening and overnight. The frontal boundary I mentioned is pushing north,

02:05 so Ireland into Wales, parts of the Midlands, that's where the rain will end up by the end

02:10 of the night, mostly north of the M4 I'd say, drying up to the south of that and staying

02:15 dry for northern England, Scotland and northern Ireland with plenty of clear spells towards

02:19 the north-west, further cloud coming in from the North Sea to affect north-eastern parts

02:24 and temperatures in most spots staying up in the high single figures or so.