{"id":353834,"date":"2025-08-18T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:25:17","slug":"met-office-warns-of-heavy-and-thundery-showers-to-hit-uk-after-week-of-30c-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353834\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Office warns of \u2018heavy and thundery\u2019 showers to hit UK after week of 30C heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

It comes after the fourth UK heatwave of 2025\"GenericShowers could be “heavy” and “thundery” in parts of the UK tonight(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

The Met Office has warned of “thundery” and “heavy” showers in parts of the UK from tonight, as “changeable” conditions are forecast for later this week.<\/p>\n

It comes after the UK has experienced its fourth heatwave of summer so far, with temperatures surpassing 30C in parts of the country over the past week.<\/p>\n

The heatwave was set to last throughout the weekend but in some parts of the country the temperature dropped by a few degrees which resulted in a cooler weekend for some.<\/p>\n

Although the heatwave is over, temperatures are set to remain in the 20Cs for most of the country.<\/p>\n

The Met Office’s UK-wide forecast for Monday evening (August 18) reads: “A few showers continuing to affect the southwest overnight, perhaps turning thundery at times. Otherwise North Sea cloud probably expanding back inland, with a little drizzle in places.”<\/p>\n

In a post shared on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter<\/a>, the Met Office said: “Monday morning will start quite cloudy for most of us, perhaps with the odd spot of drizzle in the east.<\/p>\n

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“Sunnier skies in some western areas and slowly brightening up elsewhere through the morning. Showers possible in the far southwest, these locally heavy and thundery.”<\/p>\n

Looking at the long-range forecast for the UK between Friday, August 22, and Sunday, August 31, the Met Office has warned of “changeable” conditions, impacted by Storm Erin.<\/p>\n

The forecast reads: “High pressure is likely to be the dominant feature at first bringing widely fine and dry weather<\/a> whilst a generally northerly flow leads to rather cool conditions.<\/p>\n

“This will be increasingly eroded from the west as frontal systems start to move in from the Atlantic through the weekend, leading to more changeable conditions.<\/p>\n

“Whilst this is happening a deep area of low pressure is likely to develop in the North Atlantic, linked to Hurricane Erin. This likely progresses towards the UK through the early part of the week.”<\/p>\n

\"HeatwaveThe thundery showers come after a week of warm and sunny weather across large parts of the country(Image: Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The forecast finishes with: “The changeable period will likely continue through the last week of August, especially in the north and west, with a small chance of widely wetter and windier weather developing. The evolution of this is highly uncertain though.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes after the fourth UK heatwave of 2025Showers could be “heavy” and “thundery” in parts of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,2769,16,1190,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-353834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-the-met-office","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-uk-weather","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115049052508975350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}