Met Office Afternoon Weather Forecast 26/07/24 - Showers and sunny spells
Showers continue to develop across the country, especially across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Elsewhere, it will be mostly cloudy with some sunny spells but the cloudy will start to clear through the evening and overnight. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 26/07/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
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00:00Welcome along to your latest weather update from the Met Office. Some sunshine around
00:05this afternoon, but there are also a fair few showers around as well. The first picture
00:10from space this morning showed quite a bit of sunshine on offer, but we already had some
00:14showers over northwest England and especially western Scotland. They have kept going. We'll
00:19see more heavy downpours whizzing through here and a fairly brisk wind. We're also seeing
00:24showers now developing across Northern Ireland, a scattering across Wales also. Through the
00:29course of the afternoon, a few more likely to develop to the east of the Pennines, but
00:33much of East Anglia and the southeast and indeed the southwest will stay dry and fine
00:38with some sunny spells lifting the temperatures up into the low 20s. So around about average
00:43for the time of year. Obviously, it'll feel cooler as the showers come through across
00:47western Scotland, where they will be fairly frequent on that brisk wind. We'll see a few
00:51more developing over northeast Scotland this evening before they all tend to fade away.
00:56So for many places, it'll become dry and clear. Notice some heavy rain close by to
01:00Paris, though that may affect the opening ceremony of the Olympics. By morning time,
01:05we are looking at some thickening cloud coming in from the Irish Sea into parts of southwest
01:09Scotland and northwest England. But elsewhere, generally dry ends to the nights with clear
01:15skies a bit fresher than recent nights as well. Temperatures in some rural spots down
01:18to single digits, most towns and cities between about 10 and 13 Celsius. Onto the weekend
01:24and for quite a few of us, Saturday starts fine and sunny. The main exception to that
01:29will be this corner of northwest England and southernmost parts of Scotland. Could be some
01:34quite heavy bursts of rain here through the morning time. So if you're heading across
01:38the lakes, for example, be prepared for some pretty heavy downpours first thing on Saturday
01:43morning. A few showers elsewhere across Wales and we'll see more of those developing as
01:47we go through the day. And it's here where we could quite easily see a few thunderstorms
01:52develop, particularly by the early part of the afternoon, maybe into the West Midlands
01:56also. And northeast England also likely some heavy showers during Saturday afternoon. But
02:01for Northern Ireland, fewer showers than today. And western Scotland also far fewer showers
02:07here. Plenty of sunny spells. East Anglia in the southeast may see one or two. But again,
02:11here I suspect much of the day will be dry, fine and sunny. And here's where we'll see
02:15the top temperatures, 23, maybe 24 in the capital. A cooler day across parts of northern
02:20England and Wales with more cloud and more showers, probably feeling a bit warmer tomorrow
02:25in Edinburgh at 21 Celsius, that's 70 Fahrenheit. As we go through Saturday evening, still a
02:30few showers around early on, still one or two heavy ones in places, particularly over
02:34the Midlands. But they should tend to fade away. Look at that. Many places becoming dry
02:39as we go through Saturday evening. And that leads into a fine day on Sunday. And the reason
02:44for that is because this is arriving, a large area of high pressure building in across the
02:52country and likely to stick around for a few days into next week as well. Weather fronts
02:57try and push in, but they mostly kind of pushed away to the north. They kind of fizzle out
03:03as this high pressure holds on. That means we're also likely to see the temperatures
03:07rising, ticking up a little bit on Sunday. But as the high starts to edge to the east,
03:12we could tap into some warmer air wafting up from the south. So that's something to
03:18watch. Likely to see some higher temperatures, particularly for England and Wales. But even
03:22further north, we will see rising temperatures as we go through into next week. Want to keep
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