The Met Office has issued its latest platinum jubilee forecast, and it doesn’t look that great, with the threat of rain as the UK prepares to celebrate the Queen’s 70th birthday.
The four-day festive weekend will start with a good start and warmer conditions before it gets cooler and more unsettling.
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Thursday will be dry and mostly sunny for the southern areas, when the queen is expected to delight the crowd with an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to mark the start of the celebrations after Trooping the Color. However, the northern areas will see periods of heavy rainfall.
On Friday, when a Thanksgiving service is scheduled at St. Paul’s Cathedral, it is expected to start “good and dry for many places” with some warm, sunny periods, but “some morning showers are also likely.” , according to the Met office.
Sunny blue skies and dry weather are expected on Saturday with temperatures reaching 20 ºC (68 ºF), which will be good news for those heading to the Epsom Derby race and later the Platinum. BBC party at the palace open-air concert.
On Sunday, thousands of people will gather across the country as more than 85,000 large retirement lunches and street parties are organized.
But those picnicking and taking part in the spectacular parade through central London on Sunday could face a more restless weather, with a cloudier, colder day and a certain risk of showers.
The Met office said that while there are still “many details to be resolved”, meteorologists will monitor the path of a plume of warm air from the mainland as the weekend approaches.
It could cause heavy rains, however, which can be supplanted by drier climates and “rather warm” temperatures as a high pressure system is installed.
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Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Chris Bulmer said: “More unstable conditions will be established on Monday.
“After a cool start to the week, temperatures are expected to return to average throughout the week. What we’re watching for the last part of the week is how far north this plume of air reaches. This brings us to the possibility of heavy rains in some places.
“Much remains to be determined for the forecast for the Jubilee weekend. In short, it seems that after a rainy start, although it is still good in some places, the high pressure will try to increase from the west with a drier, drier climate, at least for some. “