UK weather

  • Today and tomorrow
    Fri 17 May - Sat 18 May
    Sunny spells with isolated heavy showers, potentially thundery for Scotland.
  • 3-5 day forecast
    Sun 19 May - Tue 21 May
  • Long range forecast
    Tue 21 May - Fri 14 Jun
Fri 17 May - Sat 18 May
Sunny spells with isolated heavy showers, potentially thundery for Scotland.

Today and tomorrow

Today:

Any mist and fog clearing to leave sunny spells and showers on Friday, these turning particularly heavy with a risk of thunder in parts of Scotland. Feeling warm in the sunshine but a bit cloudier towards northern England.

Tonight:

Showers mostly drying out during the evening, leaving clear spells with low cloud moving inland across the east. Risk of rain moving into the southeast, locally heavy by the morning.

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Saturday:

A Murky start for many with some rain in the south. Turning more showery through the day with a risk of thunder. Low cloud remains along eastern coasts. Feeling warm.

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Sun 19 May - Tue 21 May

3 to 5 day forecast

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

A drier end to the weekend and into Monday. Showers still remain in places, with rain moving into the west on Tuesday. Feeling warm in any sunshine.

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Tue 21 May - Fri 14 Jun

Long range forecast

Tuesday 21 May - Thursday 30 May

There is a lot of uncertainty in this period, even at the start when the UK will be in-between low pressure over the near continent trying to keep things unsettled and potentially thundery; high pressure to the west or southwest which would settle things down; and finally low pressure to the north or northwest which may being a more climatological split in conditions between the south and north. Overall though, one way or another, it looks like remaining fairly unsettled across much of the UK, with further rain, showers or even thunderstorms in places, though there will be some sunshine between times, the best of this possibly in southwestern parts. Both rainfall amounts and temperatures are likely to be a little above average, but some large spatial differences are likely.

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Thursday 30 May - Thursday 13 Jun

There is nothing to suggest that conditions will be massively different to climatology at the end of the current month and though the first half of June. That said, both temperatures and rainfall are more-likely to be a little above average overall, with a fairly mixed bag seemingly most probable, with further rain or showers (possibly heavy/thundery at times) but also some spells of warm sunshine when it's not raining.

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