Cool and breezy northwestern areas, with showers and some thunderstorms here. Eastern Scotland and the rest of the UK will be mostly sunny, with few showers in the north and east. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 05/06/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Annie Shuttleworth.
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00:00Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to your latest weather update. It should stay dry and bright
00:04for many southern and central areas through this afternoon. But the further north and
00:08west you are, the more likely you are to feel that cool breeze. We've got low pressure up
00:13to the north and east of the UK, and that's dragging in this northwesterly wind direction.
00:18We've also got a pretty cold air mass across the UK, and that is because a cold front swept
00:23through yesterday. And we're going to be staying in this cooler air mass throughout today and
00:27into Thursday as well. So a cool and breezy feel for many northwestern areas. Frequent
00:32showers will push in on that northwesterly wind as well. They bring a risk of thunderstorms,
00:37perhaps some hail as well. So they could be pretty unpleasant if you do get caught out
00:41in any of those showers. A different feel, though, further south and east for many parts
00:47of England and Wales, parts of eastern Scotland as well. It should stay fairly dry and bright
00:52through much of the day. And actually, across the south, temperatures will still be in the
00:56high teens. It's a good few degrees below where they were yesterday across the south
01:00and east. But still, I think across the south coast, the winds are fairly light, so it should
01:04still feel fairly pleasant in any sunshine across the south. And it'll be a fairly nice
01:09end to the day across the south coast. Eastern areas of Scotland as well, eastern parts of
01:13northern England still seeing plenty of bright weather to end the day. And that will lead
01:17us into a clear night tonight. Clear skies developing for many eastern and southern areas.
01:22There's a bit more in the way of cloud moving in from the west into parts of Wales and the
01:26Midlands, possibly in the southwest, where we could see a few showers overnight. And
01:30here, temperatures will be held up a little bit higher than they were last night. However,
01:35under the clearest skies across eastern areas of Scotland, parts of Wales as well, we could
01:40see temperatures dip down low enough to allow a rural grass frost. So potentially another
01:45fairly chilly start to the day on Thursday. But once again, for many of us, it should
01:49be fairly bright. There is a risk of some showers pushing in across central areas of
01:54England, I think a greater risk than this morning. But in general, it's going to be
01:57a pretty similar day tomorrow compared to today, with the most frequent showers pushing
02:02in from the north and west and the further south and east you are, particularly into
02:05the afternoon, the best chance of any drier and brighter weather lasting into the afternoon.
02:11And it is going to be a slightly warmer day tomorrow. Temperatures climbing towards 18
02:15or 19 degrees, just a degree or so higher than today, but still only 12 or 13 across
02:21the northwest. So still a pretty cool feel. And we start to pick up more of a westerly
02:26wind direction through Thursday evening and into Friday. And that will allow showers to
02:30break out a little bit more widely across western areas of the UK as we head into Friday
02:36morning. So a greater risk of showers for southern and western areas through Friday.
02:41But it does look like it's going to turn a little bit drier from the south and west
02:44into the weekend. See you later.