A band of rain affects the southwest, Wales, northwest England and Scotland this evening and into tomorrow, turning heavier in places. Overnight the southeast will also experience some heavy downpours. Rain remaining heavy and persistent tomorrow in the southwest and Wales, with a yellow warning in effect - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 14/04/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.
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00:00Watch out for some heavy rain that's heading our way, particularly as we go through Tuesday afternoon and overnight into Wednesday.
00:07But even before that, we have some fairly wet weather across us.
00:11Currently, there is a front lingering, and that is bringing some fairly persistent rain across eastern parts of Scotland through northern England,
00:18down through western Wales towards the southwest of England.
00:21This front's not really going anywhere as we go overnight, so some further rain here.
00:26Meanwhile, in the southeast, some fairly hefty showers piling their way in from the south,
00:30particularly affecting parts of East Anglia, perhaps London and Kent as well.
00:34The risk that some of these could turn thundery as we go through the early hours of Tuesday morning.
00:38And then elsewhere, it's a drier story, not totally dry.
00:42Across much of England, really, it's going to stay pretty cloudy, but some clear skies for western Scotland and much of northern Ireland.
00:49As a result, a touch of frost is possible, away from the towns and cities' rural spots,
00:53just about dipping below freezing, perhaps.
00:56But elsewhere, with the cloud, the rain, the relatively blustery winds, it's not going to turn especially chilly.
01:02So most places getting off to a bit of a cloudy and rather wet start.
01:06Some further heavy, at times, showers across parts of the east of England for a time.
01:11Most of that clears its way northwards.
01:13But through tomorrow, that front's still lingering.
01:15Similar places, so eastern Scotland seeing a bit more rain for a time.
01:19And then particularly down through western parts of Wales and the southwest of England, it is going to stay pretty wet through much of the day.
01:26And actually, as we go through the afternoon, because of a bit of forcing coming up from the south, I'm expecting this rain to turn even heavier.
01:33And we are likely to see our rainfall totals building up.
01:36We have issued a warning across much Wales and the southwest of England because we could see totals of around 50 to 75 millimetres in some places.
01:44And that's, well, that's more rain than we've seen so far this month, so far this spring, really, for many places.
01:49And whilst they're the highest totals, we're expecting quite widely within this warning area.
01:55I'm expecting around 20 to 40 millimetres to fall in just 24 hours.
01:59So as a result, there's the potential for a bit of flooding and travel disruption.
02:03So do take care.
02:05Otherwise, there will be some drier weather, just a scattering of showers here and there.
02:08Some bright or sunny spells in the sunshine, not feeling too bad, particularly towards the south, southeast, still clinging on to some warmth here.
02:15So mid to high teen Celsius elsewhere, especially where you're stuck under the cloud.
02:19You have those winds to watch out for.
02:21And also the rain, it's going to feel a little bit cool for some of us.
02:25Then as we go through the evening and overnight, like I said, that warning's valid for 24 hours.
02:30So still some further heavy rain affecting parts of Wales, southwest England in particular.
02:34But the pulses of rain push their way northwards into northern England, into the borders areas of Scotland.
02:40So could see some impacts there, even though currently we don't have a warning out elsewhere.
02:45A drier story here and there, but some rain pushing into northern Ireland, some rain for eastern Scotland.
02:50Really, it's a bit of a messy picture at the moment as we go through into Wednesday.
02:54But with the relatively changeable unsettled weather, again, temperature's not dropping that low.
02:59I'm not really expecting much clear skies around.
03:01And so really, it should stay frost free.
03:03So perhaps a milder start for some of us on Wednesday morning, not for all.
03:07Temperature's similar, really, in many places, but also quite a wet one in many areas.
03:12A lot of rain, though, continues its way northwards.
03:14So as we go towards the afternoon, still some rain affecting particularly eastern parts of northern Ireland,
03:19but also across much of Scotland and into northern England, perhaps the north of Wales as well,
03:24clinging on to some showery bursts.
03:26Further south, though, an improving picture.
03:29We're going to turn increasingly dry, bright and sunny, albeit a few showers still coming in across parts of Devon and Cornwall,
03:36but by no means as wet a day as we're expecting on Tuesday.
03:40With that, then, we're kind of saying goodbye to the warmest air.
03:44So although there will be a decent amount of sunshine developing in the south,
03:47temperatures, if anything, are likely to be a little bit lower than the start of the week.
03:51And further north, with all the unsettled weather around, temperatures are going to, well, it's going to feel a little bit on the low side.
03:56And actually, worth bearing in mind, there's the potential for some sleet and snow to develop over the higher ground of Scotland.
04:02Then, as we go later on through this week, while that rain continues to push its way northwards as we go into Thursdays, that clears away.
04:09We do have a lull for a time being, but then we are going to see more wet weather coming up from the west-southwest,
04:16and that's mainly going to affect western parts as we go through Friday, a greater chance of staying dry.
04:21But I am expecting that unsettled weather to push through as we go through the long Easter weekend.
04:26So a pretty unsettled picture if you're hoping to go Easter egg hunting.
04:31Otherwise, I'll see you again soon. Bye-bye.