Unbelievable that a Bank Holiday weekend and now half term holidays have fine weather, warmth and sunshine. Greater London and the HIghlands saw around 25C yesterday, even warmer for the UK today.
Well, that was quite a bank holiday weekend. A well-timed U-turn for the UK weather with sunshine, blue skies and temperatures into the 20sC. (Unless you were stuck under the low cloud and sea fog where it was cool, felt quite odd and remained really murky.) Bank holiday Monday saw 25C (77F) for Greater London and Highland Scotland in a final flourish of warmth and sunshine for the end of an otherwise wet and cool month. Cardiff and Glasgow were around 23C (73F). It will be even warmer today.
It was that comparison that made the warmth and fine weather stand out rather than the numerical value. The May record is 32.8C. The June record is 35.6C from the summer of ’76. And on this first day of June, of meteorological summer we have more sunshine and warmth. For those on half term, it is quite remarkable.
Keep remembering the sunscreen, hat and sunglasses especially for those who ‘caught the sun’ at the weekend. Also, the grass pollen season has started, levels are rising.
To the west is a weather front which is bringing cloud and a band of rain. This will edge away westwards this afternoon. So, for the morning, Co. Fermanagh and Co. Tyrone will see a grey, slightly damp start as will the Hebrides. There is frontal cloud over Northern Ireland, western Scotland, Wales, the Irish Sea and Devon but more sunshine will appear, and the temperatures will rise once more. Eastern England again has sea fret, around the Humber, Lincolnshire which should lift and along the coast of Northumberland. There is more low cloud out in the North Sea, and this will drift towards NE Britain during the day. Under that cloud, it will again feel colder with the east wind off the sea, mid-teens at best.
Northern Ireland will be in the high teens, low twenties C today with hardly any breeze. Wales, low to mid-twenties Celsius with a light SE breeze. Inland Scotland could see 25 or 26C today with Shetland and later the east coast still struggling in the haar. Much of England will have a very warm day with temperatures in the 20sC. London could see 27C with southern England, the Midlands into NW England in the mid 20sC. Another very warm, sunny day but with an east to SE breeze.
Quiet tonight for most but heavy showers will move up from the south to Cornwall and the Channel Islands after midnight. By dawn, they will be over Devon as well and reaching Pembrokeshire with some elevated storms. During the morning SW Britain will see more cloud, feel like a thunderstorm is coming and there will be showers scattered about. The showers will be well scattered over southern England, moving north through Wales and crossing the border into Northern Ireland later. There is the risk of isolate surface-based thunderstorms in the heat of the afternoon. This will be the peak of the warmth.
There will be more of an easterly wind for northern England and Scotland on Wednesday, and it will affect the temperatures. Western Scotland will still be very warm and NW England down through the Midlands however NE England and eastern Scotland will be cool.
Overnight a few showers move northwards and fresher air follows from the SW. So, by Thursday eastern England still looks very warm, some warmth too in Scotland but down a notch elsewhere. Noticeably cooler for Co. Down, SW England and Wales as a brisk S to SW wind picks up with more cloud. Later Thursday and overnight into Friday there could be some heavy showers, even thunderstorm working their way northwards over eastern Britain.
Overall, not a bad few days, more warmth and sunshine but just tailing off later this week.
