Largely dry and fine with spells of sunshine, but some rain into the Outer Hebrides later. Light winds for most but breezy in the far northwest. Temperatures widely above the seasonal average, peaking in the high teens. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 26/03/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.
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00:00If you're a fan of fine warm weather, well it's good news, plenty of that on offer as we go through today.
00:06That's because we have high pressure firmly in control, especially across southern areas.
00:11Further north, well if we look even further north and across Iceland, there's an area of low pressure here
00:16and then a trailing front is heading towards us.
00:19So we are going to see some rain arriving in the northwest later on,
00:22but ahead of this and for much of the country it is a fine picture.
00:26Plenty of blue skies, the earlier mist and fog has well and truly cleared away
00:31and so a good deal of sunshine and mostly light winds away from the far northwest.
00:36With the sunshine and the light winds, well it feels pretty warm temperatures,
00:40a bit above average for the time of year.
00:42Most places getting into the mid-teen Celsius, high teens for some places, 17, 18 Celsius towards the southeast.
00:48Even across some parts of eastern Scotland, temperatures could reach 17 or 18 Celsius as well.
00:54But as we go through later on, rain will be feeding into, well initially the outer Hebrides
00:59and then spreading southeastwards across parts of Scotland and also into Northern Ireland too.
01:04Could be quite persistent, quite heavy, particularly across western parts of Scotland as we go overnight.
01:10Across England and Wales though, looking largely dry.
01:12Some cloud across parts of northern England, maybe western Wales as well.
01:16Could be thick enough for a few spots of drizzly rain, but otherwise a mostly fine picture with some clear skies.
01:22And actually towards the southeast where we get some clear skies, here it's going to be again pretty chilly.
01:28A touch of frost is possible and again we could see some mist and fog developing in some places as well.
01:34A milder start to the day on Thursday though across Scotland and Northern Ireland
01:38because it's cloudier and it's wetter here.
01:41More rain to come then across Scotland in particular as we go through tomorrow.
01:45It is still going to be quite persistent, quite heavy at times.
01:48Always western parts of Scotland likely to see the highest rainfall totals building up.
01:52But across many parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, it is going to stay pretty grey, pretty cloudy.
01:58There will be some blustery winds and further rain at times.
02:01And in fact, as another system bashes into this front that's already lying across us,
02:05we're likely to see the rain pepping up a little bit.
02:08So some heavier rain likely as we go through the afternoon.
02:11All the time across much of England and Wales, it's staying fine again.
02:15Again, still across the far north of England, western parts of Wales perhaps.
02:19A bit more cloud here and a little bit of drizzly rain maybe.
02:23But most places again having a decent, fine, sunny day across the southeast.
02:28Barely any cloud around here and actually temperatures look, well, similar to today really.
02:32Highs of around 17 or 18 Celsius.
02:35Further northwest though, temperatures a few degrees down and obviously feeling a bit more unpleasant
02:40because of the cloud, the rain and the strong winds here.
02:43As we go through Thursday evening, we are eventually going to see that front making its way southeastwards.
02:48So it is going to push into parts of northern and western England and Wales.
02:52And then as we go overnight, that is gradually going to make its way southeastwards across England and Wales as well.
02:57So a spell of rain for many as we go into Friday.
03:01And then behind it, we have some showers feeding in.
03:04And it's also worth bearing in mind that behind this front, we have some colder air coming in as well.
03:08So some of those showers, particularly across parts of Scotland, could have a wintry element to them.
03:13Not that unheard of for this time of March.
03:15But then we have a ridge of high pressure building.
03:17So a drier start to the day on Saturday for many of us,
03:21which is welcome news if you're hoping to witness the partial eclipse,
03:26which is happening between 10 and 12 on Saturday.
03:30And then another system comes in from the west with some further wet weather,
03:34likely as we go through the rest of Saturday and into Sunday.
03:37We'll have more details on what to expect looking further ahead in our 10-day trend,
03:41which Anna will be bringing to you on our YouTube channel later on.
03:44Bye-bye.