Forecasters have warned that wet weather threatens the wear and tear of the festive weekend of the Jubilee.
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, a four-day extended holiday from Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 June 2022, will see events and activities explode across the UK.
According to the official Jubilee website, 2,429 public events and 2,579 impressive parties or private events have been planned in the UK so far.
And street parties, a staple of major royal celebrations, are expected to attract more than ten million Britons.
But meteorologists have urged partygoers everywhere to come down and leave the country to prepare to keep a “good raincoat or lookout” towed to avoid soaked clothes and sandwiches, as showers threaten to rain during the parade. of four days.
Met Office meteorologist Annie Shuttleworth told The Independent that there is still a high degree of uncertainty as to the exact areas that will be affected by the rains over the holiday, but urged the British to monitor the forecast. as the country approaches the festivities.
He said: “The regionality of how things will be, where we will see the driest weather and where we will see the wettest weather, especially where we will see rain during the Jubilee weekend, is where we have come out with more uncertainty.
“We expect high pressure to bring some dry weather to at least the northern parts of the UK. But in the east, we could see some showers and in the south there is also a risk of showers.
“All temperatures look like they’ll be roughly average for the time of year, so middle and high teens.
London will be the centerpiece of this year’s Jubilee celebrations: the host of the Queen’s Birthday Parade, the lighting of the main lighthouse during a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace, the Thanksgiving service for reign of the queen in St. Paul’s Cathedral, as well as nearly 300 Great Jubilee Lunches.
But Shuttleworth said that unfortunately there is no promise that the capital will have dry weather for the special occasion.
He added: “I would say that during the four days, there is likely to be a mixture of sunshine, but there will also be a risk of showers.
“People who are preparing for the Jubilee weekend should at least be prepared to be shower-proof in what they are planning.”
Aside from the rain, with windy weather expected to dominate much of this week, the Met Office has said that with the arrival of the Jubilee weekend, that should slow down.
“Right now, we have pretty windy, windy weather across the UK, and it looks like it will be calmer than it is right now,” Ms Shuttleworth continued.
“We do not expect a particularly windy weather, the drought that will be is our main uncertainty and this has effects on temperatures.
“The most important thing is the risk of rain. People will have to keep a close eye on the time to decide whether to plan a good raincoat or a lookout. “