Lengthy sunny spells for all areas. Feeling warm in the sunshine but cooler in areas exposed to the easterly wind, particularly across the south. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 02/04/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.
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00:00Hi there. It's not often in this job I can say that everywhere in the UK is expected
00:06to have a sunny day. That is indeed what we are expecting from Shetland to the Scilly
00:11Isles. Barely a cloud in the sky. Oh right, there'll be the odd patch here and there,
00:16but otherwise it is widespread blue skies. However, although it'll feel warm in the sunshine,
00:22we do have a brisk easterly breeze and that's certainly going to make it feel cool in the
00:27breeze, particularly if you're on that North Sea coast with temperatures limited to 12-13
00:34Celsius at best on the east coast of England and Scotland. Further inland, out of the breeze,
00:39feeling warm and pleasant, temperatures reaching the mid to high teens widely. Hotspots, possibly
00:46northern Scotland, 19.6 on Tuesday. Could get close or even exceed that on Wednesday
00:52afternoon. Heading into the evening, well, we'll keep the clear skies in most places,
00:58but there will be some patches of cloud here and there. I think for parts of East Wales
01:03into the north of England, particularly over the Peak District, the Pennines for example,
01:08some patchy low cloud developing and some cloud increasing from the southwest as the
01:13night wears on as well. The odd shower starting to approach at this stage. Otherwise, it is
01:19clear skies where we've got a lighter breeze in the north. Temperatures will dip close to,
01:24if not below freezing, so a touch of frost here and there. Further south, enough of a breeze to
01:29stir the air up and prevent a frost. It's a bright start then for most of us on Thursday,
01:35but a subtle difference on the charts there compared with previous days. We've got low
01:41pressure moving a little closer to the southwest of England and these weather fronts edging in,
01:47and they will bring a very different day for southwest England as we go through Thursday.
01:52Areas of cloud, showers, some heavy downpours potentially coming and going through the day,
01:57perhaps some longer spells of rain moving in by the end of the afternoon, mostly affecting
02:02Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset. Increasing cloud for south Wales as well into central
02:09southern England. And we've got the patchy low cloud for the Peak District, the Pennines first
02:14thing. That will tend to disappear through the day, but one or two patches could remain.
02:18But for much of the rest of the UK, away from the southwest, it is a similar day of sunny skies,
02:24but also brisk easterly breeze. So, a marked contrast in temperatures across the country,
02:30feeling notably cool or even you might say chilly on the North Sea coast. Inland,
02:36out of the breeze, temperatures of 19 or 20 Celsius, a little warmer for some central parts,
02:42but those temperatures down a little for the southwest because of the thicker cloud and those
02:47spells of showery rain. Now, the rain through Thursday evening tends to push into south Wales
02:53and more or less fizzles away as it moves into mid Wales. Eventually, these areas of cloud also
03:00spilling into the Midlands, parts of eastern England, for example. And overnight, the rain
03:06tends to move into parts of Northern Ireland, but very little, I suspect, southeastern parts of
03:12Northern Ireland seeing a few spots for the start of Friday. Thicker cloud for Ireland into parts of
03:17Wales and the southwest at the start of the day, but tending to move away by the end of the
03:23afternoon. And we've got this low cloud starting to make an appearance into the northeast as well.
03:28But with a slight change in wind direction and increasingly sunny skies across the south and
03:35southwest through the afternoon, this northeasterly breeze means that it's towards the southwest where
03:40we'll see the highest temperatures on Friday afternoon, 21, 22 Celsius possible somewhere
03:46between Cardiff and Southampton, for example. A stark contrast compared with the likes of Lerwick,
03:52Aberdeen, Newcastle, where those temperatures will be high single figures, low double figures at
03:58best and feeling cold in the North Sea wind. So big contrasts as far as temperatures are
04:04concerned. But by and large, the sunny and dry story continues over the next few days with the
04:10exception of southwestern parts on Thursday.