New weather maps show a 24-hour barrage of rainfall is set to hit a stretch of the UK from the Scottish Highlands
20:00, 08 Jun 2025Updated 20:42, 08 Jun 2025
June is already off to a drizzly start, but a barrage of further wet and chilly weather is yet to come(Image: 2024 Getty Images)
A 580-mile deluge of rain is due to strike the UK in just a few days, continuing the unsettled and damp weather that has marked June thus far. A band stretching from the Scottish Highlands down to Portsmouth on the southern coast will endure an intense 24-hour bout of poor weather on Thursday, June 12, according to recent weather maps.
Weather forecasts from WXCharts reveal cities across the UK being hit by up to 5mm of rain per hour from around 9am on Thursday, with heavy showers predicted to persist throughout the day and into Friday morning (June 13).
While this disruptive weather spell will span the entire country, it could impact Britain’s western coastline most severely, with cities including Glasgow, Carlisle, Lancaster, Liverpool and Aberystwyth receiving more than 3mm of rainfall, along with Brighton, Manchester and Sheffield.
Temperatures are set to remain around average this week(Image: WXCharts)
This follows a tumultuous week of weather, with the first few days of the month alternating between sunshine and showers and yellow weather warnings from the Met Office for thunderstorms on Saturday.
After settling in on Thursday morning, the rain bomb is forecast to reach its peak at around midday, drenching large parts of the UK with continuous showers.
However, eastern regions might avoid the heavier downpours, with northeastern Scotland, including Inverness and Aberdeen, expected to stay mostly dry, as well as Newcastle and the far southeastern English coast.
The wet weather will sweep across the country on Thursday morning(Image: WXCharts)
Don’t expect a significant drop in temperatures as we enter a new phase of unsettled weather, with the Met Office forecasting figures to remain near the UK seasonal average of up to 18C, reports the Express.
The Met Office also notes that temperatures should stay relatively stable, although cooler air is likely in northern cities, and has cautioned about “changeable” conditions for the week ahead, expect a mix of breezy episodes and wet weather dotted with bouts of sunshine.
The outlook from Tuesday to Thursday is described by the Met Office as: “Remaining changeable with a mixture of sunshine, scattered showers and longer spells of rain.”
The rain bomb will continue battering parts of the country into the early hours on Friday(Image: WXCharts)
It will be “breezy at times, and feeling cool in the north, but temperatures on the rise by midweek.”
BBC Weather’s Monthly Outlook for Friday indicates: “Around the middle part of next week, a stronger high pressure ridge might shift over the UK bringing briefly very warm conditions, especially to the south and south-east.”
Looking further ahead, there are signs of uncertainty as we approach next weekend, but weather forecast models seem to agree to some degree that conditions may turn slightly cooler and more variable, possibly encroaching from the south-west.
However a searing ‘Spanish plume’ is predicted to hit the UK later on in June.
Scotland is set to see soaring temperatures as high as 25C in this sunny spell, which may begin as early as next week.
The sweltering heat plume from Europe is to be widespread for the whole of the UK, possibly extending from the southeast all the way up to the Highlands.
It comes after Scotland recorded its sunniest spring on record.
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