This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the weekend 06/03/2025. Colder weather is on the way but, before it arrives, this weekend will actually be warm, dry and bright for many. Bringing you this weekend’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern
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00:00Hello and welcome to the Metal Viz forecast for the weekend.
00:04Colder weather is set to return next week, but before that happens, it's actually going
00:08to turn a little warmer for a few days.
00:10Heading into the weekend, an area of low pressure dives south, replaces the high that's been
00:14sitting to the south of the UK all week, and brings a warmer plume of air from the near
00:20continent on a southerly airflow.
00:23Now we're in between two weather fronts across much of the UK in an area known as the warm
00:27sector, so it's relatively mild air and most places frost free starting off Saturday.
00:32It's also for most a dry and bright start, but there are a couple of exceptions.
00:37The boundaries of this warm sector are two weather fronts, one lingering around Orkney
00:42and then into Shetland throughout Saturday, bringing a lot of cloud and some dampness,
00:46and another front just bringing a thickening of the cloud there across parts of Northern
00:49Ireland into Wales and the southwest of England.
00:52Showery rain associated with this, the most persistent weather, or rain I should say,
00:57across Cornwall along with a keen breeze.
01:00That's going to make it feel on the cool side if you're around the south coast or the east
01:05coast, but inland, out of the breeze, plenty of bright weather through much of the rest
01:10of England, much of Wales, southern and western Scotland as well, and some bright interludes
01:15for Northern Ireland.
01:16And where we've got the brightness and where we've got some shelter from the breeze, it's
01:21going to feel very pleasant indeed.
01:22Fifteen or sixteen Celsius fairly widely inland, and in one or two spots, the potential for
01:27seventeen, eighteen, perhaps even close to nineteen degrees.
01:32Later Saturday, there's actually little change.
01:35Weather fronts linger across the far north of Scotland.
01:38Low pressure lingers off the coast of Iberia, and that will continue to churn up areas of
01:43showers circulating around this area of low pressure, and most likely affecting parts
01:48of the southwest of England, particularly again Cornwall.
01:52So whilst many parts of the UK will experience a dry and bright weekend, if you're in Cornwall
01:57and some parts of South Devon for example, it is going to be generally damp with some
02:01heavier rain for a time early Sunday, that pushing up through the rest of Devon into
02:05Somerset later in the day.
02:07A lot of cloud associated with this for much of the south and southwest into Wales as well.
02:13And at the other end of the country, we've again got cloudier skies and outbreaks of
02:16persistent rain, particularly for Shetland.
02:19But in between, once more, plenty of dry and bright weather.
02:23Just an indication there of some fog coming into the east of England towards the end of
02:27the afternoon.
02:28But for many, where we've got the dry and bright weather, where we've got some shelter
02:32from the winds, temperatures reaching sixteen, perhaps seventeen degrees, so perfectly pleasant.
02:37That's all about to change however through the start of next week.
02:40You can see an area of high pressure to the north of the UK starts to extend southwards,
02:45but that's associated with much colder air coming in from the north.
02:49And the isobars tighten up for a time as well.
02:51So with cold northerly winds, we're likely to see one or two wintry showers across the
02:55north and the east of the UK, drier and brighter once again towards the southwest.
03:00We lose those showers that will be affecting the southwest of England through the weekend,
03:05sunnier skies replacing them, but it's going to feel cold in that wind and with colder
03:08air moving south across the country, expect throughout next week, plenty of frosty mornings.
03:15But once the frost disappears in the morning, I think we'll see a bit more sunshine through
03:19the afternoons of next week.
03:21Before all that, a pleasantly warm weekend for many away from the rainier parts of the
03:26southwest and the far north.