It’s set to be a wet weekend for millions as the Met Office believes Sunday will bring a damp end to millions of people’s time off, with 110 council areas affected
An updated Met Office forecast predicts 110 areas of the UK will see rainfall on Sunday afternoon.
The recent warm weather is set to come to an end for millions of people this weekend as rain clouds hover over the country on Saturday (July 25) and Sunday (July 26).
The Met Office said of Saturday: “Band of rain across Scotland moving southeastwards and turning increasingly showery. Remaining dry, sunny and very warm across southern areas, with brighter and fresher conditions following across Scotland.”
The Sunday to Tuesday forecast is: “Fresher for all on Sunday with sunny spells and some showers. Remaining changeable early next week across the north, but potentially turning dry and very warm again in the south.”
The wettest weather is predicted to come towards the end of the weekend, late on Sunday afternoon.
In total, rain is predicted to fall in 110 council areas, including every nation of the UK. While most of the country will see less than 1mm of rain, some areas will see heavier downpours.
Up to 8mm of rain is expected in the Lake District, Lancashire, Hampshire, and East Yorkshire. There could even be 32mm of rain in Lincolnshire and Oxfordshire.
Rain will affect 55 council areas in England, 22 in Scotland and Wales each, and 11 in Northern Ireland.
Rain starts falling for northerly areas, including Scotland and Northern Ireland, on Saturday afternoon and persists for most of Sunday.
A second band of rain then is thought to approach in the early hours of Sunday, hitting the western side of the country and producing a gloomy afternoon for most.
Temperatures be cool for summer, with highs of 21C in the southern England, 17C in northern England, 19C in Wales, 16C in Northern Ireland, and 15C in Scotland.
A full list of every top-tier council area where rain is expected to fall is below, broken down by nation and region.
Northern Ireland
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Ards and North Down
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Belfast
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Derry City and Strabane
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Lisburn and Castlereagh
- Mid and East Antrim
- Mid Ulster
- Newry, Mourne and Down
Wales
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bridgend
- Caerphilly
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Gwynedd
- Isle of Anglesey
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newport
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Swansea
- Torfaen
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wrexham
Scotland
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- Dumfries and Galloway
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Renfrewshire
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Glasgow City
- Highland
- Inverclyde
- Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Perth and Kinross
- Renfrewshire
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- Stirling
- West Dunbartonshire
England
- North West : Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Cumberland, Halton, Knowsley, Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Sefton, St Helens, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Warrington, Westmorland and Furness, Wigan, and Wirral.
- Yorkshire : Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, North Yorkshire, and Wakefield.
- Midlands : Birmingham, Coventry, Derby, Derbyshire, Dudley, Herefordshire, Sandwell, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Wolverhampton, and Worcestershire.
- South West : Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Plymouth, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, and Torbay.
