Met Office Names 11 Areas Facing Rain on Saturday Amid UK Heatwave

The Met Office has named 11 areas that could face rain on Saturday as the rest of the UK swelters during another heatwave. Scotland will be in the firing line, with heavy rain over the tip of Aberdeenshire in the morning at 7am and across the north of the country.

Rain Forecast for Saturday

Parts of Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland and Inverness-shire will be hit with a large band of rain in the morning, and the showers are forecast to stay for most of the day in northern Scotland. The south of Scotland will be largely dry throughout the day, the same as Wales, England and Northern Ireland.

By 10pm, the weather maps show the showers will stretch further south into England into Northumberland. By Sunday, the majority of the rain will have left, leaving dry weather across the country.

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Heatwave Conditions Elsewhere

While the Met Office has predicted highs of up to 35C and 36C on Thursday and Friday in some southern parts of England, Scotland will also escape the extreme heat, with highs of 21C on Friday and 17C forecast on Saturday in Aberdeen. While the heat will gradually ease across southern and eastern parts of the UK during the weekend and into next week, very warm weather is set to continue, as the highest temperatures shift towards the southwest.

Deputy chief forecaster Tom Crabtree said: “While temperatures are expected to ease across southeast England through the weekend and into next week, it won't be a straightforward end to the warm weather.”

Outlook for Next Week

Crabtree added: “High pressure is expected to remain in charge through much of next week, but it will gradually migrate northwards. This means that an easterly wind will become established in the south, and the focus for the hottest conditions will migrate towards the southwest.”

“As a result, some places that have seen the highest temperatures during recent weeks will begin to cool. It will however, remain very warm – especially in the southwest – and heatwave thresholds may continue to be met in places.”

“The overall signal is for continued fine, dry and very warm weather at times for many parts of the UK into next week. There is however a chance of thunderstorms spreading into parts of the south and southwest.”