Unsettled weather is expected across the region
Rain is expected in the coming days(Image: Liverpool Echo)
Liverpool is set to be hit with thunderstorms and torrential rain this week. The UK has entered the first week of meteorological autumn and “unsettled” weather is on the horizon.
The Met Office predicts heavy rain today, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as scattered showers are expected. In the weather agency’s forecast for the North West today, September 1, it says: “Blustery showers will continue to move in from the west through this evening, but some drier, clearer spells are expected to develop overnight too.
“Patchy low cloud may linger across the Pennines, with winds gradually easing by dawn. Minimum temperature 12 °C.”
Looking ahead to Tuesday, September 2, there will be a bright start for many but scattered showers will soon become widespread through the day. Winds will be a little lighter but it will still feel breezy along the coast.
Sunny spells could bring some warmth, with temperatures reaching up to 19C.
The rest of the week is expected to remain “unsettled” throughout with further showers and longer spells of rain. The Met Office adds that “some heavy, perhaps thundery downpours” are likely at times, interspersed with drier and sunnier interludes.
It comes as the Met Office confirmed the summer of 2025 was the UK’s warmest on record. The mean average temperature across June, July and August was a provisional 16.10C, beating the previous seasonal high of 15.76C set in 2018.
Four heatwaves hit the UK this summer, all of which saw temperatures climb above 30C, though none was quite as fierce as the heatwave of July 2022 when an all-time high of 40.3C was reached.
The highest temperature recorded was 35.8C at Faversham in Kent on July 1.
This year’s spells of intense heat were also relatively short-lived and did not persist for as long as in the scorching summer of 1976, when multiple locations across England endured heatwave-like conditions lasting more than two weeks.
Temperatures peaked above 32C on 16 days during the summer of 1976, compared with nine days in 2025.
People brave the wind and rain on Liverpool Pier Head (Image: Liverpool Echo)
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