Bank Holiday washout as consultants forecast ‘torrential and thundery downpours’
Britain is set to be hit by a deluge of rain and thundery downpours for our next bank holiday.
For most of the last few weeks, Brits have been basking in a mini-heatwave of around 20-25c heat. But that is all about to come crashing down, at the worst possible time.
According to Exact Weather’s in-house experts, you might want to get the big coat back out and find your umbrella, because Bank Holiday weekend next week is going be very wet.
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Brought on by a “low pressure” system, we’re in for a lot of unsettled weather next week, which will continue into the week after to round May off in a pretty grim way – and it won’t just happen in the usual parts Scotland.
In fact, it won’t be happening there at all.
Exacta Weather’s top weather boffin James Madden explained: “Unfortunately, heading into next week, we do seem to want to at least ‘temporarily’ have low pressure influencing our weather pattern in terms of some unsettled weather and thundery downpours over a number of days in between relatively mild to normal temperatures.
“However . . . we could once again see more hit-and-miss rain showers and thundery downpours, with some places missing them altogether, but this does not dispel some potentially heavy or torrential downpours developing within this period, particularly in parts of southern England.”
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“Beyond this and later next week, there is still the opportunity for another area of high pressure to take charge and become influential on our overall weather pattern, once again bathing our shores in another run of warm to hot temperatures over several days.”
And it’s not just Exacta Weather that makes the claim.
According to the BBC’s long-term forecast, the low pressure system is actually going to be accompanied by high pressure at the same time across other parts of Europe.
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They said: “The weather models offer different solutions towards the end of May and beginning of June. Some of them tend to keep areas of low pressure south of the UK. High pressure is more likely to lie over continental Central Europe and extend as far as Scandinavia. The latter could provide slightly drier and calmer conditions at times, especially in northern and eastern areas.
“Conditions will be less changeable in the second week of June. High pressure may remain either north of the UK or towards Scandinavia and low pressure further south.
“Northern parts of the UK may therefore remain drier and calmer again, while the southern half of the UK will be under the influence of low pressure. Temperatures are likely to be slightly above average.”
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