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- It was a showery day 🌦️ for many across the UK on Sunday. Here are the extremes https://t.co/tDljt0ooZh 25 minutes ago
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We’ve seen some impressive skies this weekend with plenty of heavy showers 🌦as well as some sunshine ☀️ 📸 @simonluckman1988 from Twitter . With further heavy showers in the forecast this week and a thunderstorm warning ⛈ ⚠️in force for parts of southeast England on Tuesday night and Wednesday it is likely that we’ll see further striking skies in the coming days . Here’s the UK forecast👇 . ⬇️Headline⬇️ Showers for the northwest, drier in southeast, rain in between. . ⬇️This Evening and Tonight⬇️ A rather cloudy but mostly dry night for southern and eastern England, once any daytime showers ease. Bands of rain, heavy at times, will push northeastwards across more central and northwestern parts. The breeze will stop temperatures dropping much. . ⬇️Monday⬇️ Breezy and showery for Scotland and Northern Ireland, with risk of hail and thunder. Early rain across northern England and Wales breaking up somewhat. Warm sunny spells further southeast. . ⬇️Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday⬇️ Rain or showers developing on Tuesday, with potential for torrential thunderstorms in the southeast overnight and into Wednesday. Turning brighter and fresher from the west. Sunshine and showers on Thursday. . . . #sunshine #showers #rain #thunder #weather #forecast #loveukweatherTorrential rain this week has led to a lot of mud at @downloadfest. A mix of sunshine and showers still to come but not as wet as it has been. 📸 @marcxsmith . . Here’s the UK forecast 👇 Showery rain in the north. Drier with clear spells elsewhere. . This Evening and Tonight: The band of showery rain will continue northeastwards, becoming confined to parts of Scotland later in the night. Otherwise, clear spells with showers easing for most. However, there will be further showers arriving into the southwest later in the night. . Sunday: A breezy day with sunny spells and showers, these will be heavy at times. Thicker cloud and more persistent showery rain over northern Scotland at first will clear away northwards. . Outlook for Monday to Wednesday: Sunshine and showers for many on Monday. After a dry and bright start on Tuesday, heavy and thundery showers will arrive during the afternoon and move north overnight into Wednesday. #rain #weather #loveukweather #mud #download2019It’s pretty muddy at #downloadfestival2019 . Amazingly, they had more than a month’s worth of rain 🌧 from Monday to Wednesday this week in advance of the site opening. . Here are the rainfall stats from Sutton Bonnington (about 5 miles east of Donnington Park)… . Rainfall so far this month (up to 0900 14 June): 99.8 mm (166% of average) . Average rainfall in June: 60.2 mm . Rainfall total for 10-12 June: 68 mm . Wettest day: 10 June (32.8 mm) . Thanks to @OliviaJWood_x on twitter for sharing her video. . #loveukweather #muddy #rain #wellies #festivalFed up of it feeling like winter? . It does look warmer next week ➡️⏱ . But note we’re not promising flaming June and blue skies for all, just a bit less ‘January’! . . #drier #sunnier #warmer #loveukweather #weather #nextweek #forecastThrowback to when most of us were getting more sun than rain ☀️🌧 . Big thanks to @skylark22BHC1 over on Twitter for sharing this beautiful image with us 😍 . Fancy a feature on our feed? Just include @metoffice & #loveukweather in your post 🙌🏻 . . #weather #loveukweather #sunny #throwback #rain #warningsFantastic images of low hanging clouds! Massive thanks to @simon_weather over on Twitter for sharing these with us 🙌🏻 . We think they’re possibly mammatus clouds rather than Asperitas, but it’s tricky to tell 🤔. . Mammatus clouds hang down from under a Cumulonimbus (thunderstorms). . With more heavy rain and thunderstorms in the coming days you could catch a glimpse of clouds like these 👀. . Stay #WeatherAware and keep up to date with the latest warnings ⚠️. . . #weather #warning #lowclouds #greatyarmouth #clouds #asperitas #mammatusArchives
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Summer temperature 2018 – the ‘new normal’?
The Met Office Chief Scientist, Professor Stephen Belcher, appeared on BBC Newsnight on Tuesday evening to talk about current extreme temperatures and climate change. The interviewer Emily Maitlis asked if the current hot temperatures we are seeing can be considered the … Continue reading
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The summer so far
As we are all aware this summer has been hot and dry so far and there has been much speculation comparing the season so far to record-breaking summers of the past. But has it been as hot and dry as … Continue reading
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Will summer be a washout or a scorcher?
The Met Office has recently released its contingency planners’ outlook covering the period for June, July and August, with some sources suggesting this is predicting a summer heatwave. But what does this early look at what might be in store … Continue reading
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Review of the year – 2017 UK weather
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The last week has seen high temperatures across large parts of England and Wales in what has been the longest continuous hot spell in June since the hot, dry summer of 1976. Temperatures of 30°C or more were recorded somewhere … Continue reading
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Thunderstorms bring an end to September heat
If temperatures reach 30 ºC in the south east of England today (15 Sept 2016) it will be the first consecutive 3-day September period where temperatures reached over 30 ºC since 1929. However this is the last of the hot … Continue reading
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Will summer be a washout or a scorcher?
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Is the weather going to be record breaking?
There has been some suggestion that this May could be the hottest ever recorded in the UK. However, unfortunately, it really is still too early to be sure about the final figures. The mid month UK statistics (1-15 May 2016) show, … Continue reading
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Cold weather on the way for the UK, but what about elsewhere in the world?
As the UK prepares for unseasonably cold weather, elsewhere around the globe we are seeing heatwaves, droughts, tropical storms and rainfall. A very warm air mass across the Pacific Northwest of North America has built a ridge of high pressure … Continue reading
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So what happened to our summer?
Our Chief Scientist Professor Dame Julia Slingo OBE FRS reflects on this summer’s weather and what has influenced it: No-one can deny that we have had a pretty disappointing summer with a lot of unsettled weather and only a few … Continue reading
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