Showers are set to sweep across the UK on Monday, drenching 15 major cities including London, Manchester and Glasgow
Heavy showers are set to sweep across the UK next week, drenching cities including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Weather maps from WXCharts, which use MetDesk data, show a large band of rain moving across the country on Monday, with heavy downpours expected across parts of northern England and Scotland.
The rain is expected to begin moving into parts of Britain from around 10am BST before becoming more widespread by early afternoon. Maps show a vast rain band stretching roughly 500 miles from southern England through the Midlands and into Scotland as the system tracks northwards.
The Met Office has warned of “a changeable period” from Monday onwards as a series of Atlantic weather systems move in from the west, bringing showers and longer spells of rain at times
The heaviest rain is expected across parts of Yorkshire, north-east England and eastern Scotland, where orange and red weather markers indicate the most intense precipitation.
By the afternoon, the worst of the downpours is forecast to be centred over north-east England and south-east Scotland, with surrounding areas also expected to see persistent rain and showers.
15 cities set to see rain on Monday:
- London
- Birmingham
- Manchester
- Liverpool
- Leeds
- Sheffield
- York
- Newcastle
- Cardiff
- Swansea
- Glasgow
- Edinburgh
- Dundee
- Aberdeen
- Belfast
In its outlook for Monday, June 1, to Wednesday, June 10, the Met Office says: “A changeable period, as a sequence of Atlantic weather systems move in from the west to bring a mixture of drier spells and some showers or longer spells of rain at times.
“The best of the drier conditions are more likely towards the south and east, with the rain generally more frequent in parts of the west and northwest, although there will be drier interludes here also.
“Temperatures will be near-normal overall, with the warmest spots most likely across eastern areas. It will also be breezy at times, most especially across northwestern areas.”
The Met Office’s outlook for June 11 to 25 says conditions will likely be “changeable or unsettled” at first, before high pressure becomes more dominant from the middle of the month, bringing drier and more settled conditions.
“Temperatures are expected to be near normal at first, but probably rising above average later,” the national weather service adds.
