Vermilion Sands: Weather forecast

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Met Office 7-day forecast for Leeds (Potternewton)

Model run at 1700, Mon 1 Dec 2025. All times UTC.
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Mon
1 Dec
2025
12.0°C ±0.3
12% SSW
14 / 29mph
12.4°C ±0.2
92% S
12 / 29mph
11.3°C ±0.9
91% SSW
12 / 27mph
Tue
2 Dec
2025
9.6°C ±0.8
82% SW
11 / 25mph
7.8°C ±1.1
4% : SW
10 / 22mph
6.2°C ±0.5
0% : SSW
10 / 23mph
5.7°C ±0.1
0% : SSW
8 / 20mph
6.7°C ±1.0
0% : SSW
9 / 18mph
7.7°C ±0.1
0% : S
6 / 13mph
6.9°C ±0.7
7% : S
7 / 17mph
6.0°C ±0.1
7% : SSE
5 / 13mph
Wed
3 Dec
2025
5.7°C ±0.3
7% SSE
5 / 13mph
5.0°C ±0.4
0% : S
6 / 13mph
4.2°C ±0.5
2% : S
6 / 14mph
3.9°C ±0.2
1% : S
7 / 16mph
5.3°C ±1.3
4% : S
8 / 18mph
6.9°C ±0.3
4% : SSW
7 / 15mph
6.5°C ±0.5
5% : S
7 / 15mph
5.9°C ±0.1
5% : SSE
8 / 16mph
Thu
4 Dec
2025
5.9°C ±0.2
14% SSE
9 / 19mph
6.0°C ±0.1
24% SSE
11 / 22mph
6.1°C ±0.1
57% SSE
10 / 21mph
6.0°C ±0.1
54% SSE
9 / 18mph
6.2°C ±0.2
69% SSW
7 / 14mph
6.2°C ±0.2
34% SW
6 / 11mph
5.0°C ±1.0
6% : SSW
6 / 11mph
3.7°C ±0.4
6% : SSW
5 / 9mph
Fri
5 Dec
2025
2.8°C ±0.5
8% S
4 / 8mph
2.3°C ±0.1
12% S
4 / 8mph
2.4°C ±0.2
17% S
4 / 8mph
2.4°C ±0.2
15% S
5 / 10mph
3.3°C ±0.8
10% : SSE
6 / 14mph
4.4°C ±0.3
8% : SE
8 / 16mph
4.1°C ±0.4
20% SE
9 / 20mph
4.2°C ±0.3
55% SE
10 / 21mph
Sat
6 Dec
2025
4.7°C ±0.3
56% ESE
11 / 23mph
5.0°C ±0.0
78% SE
10 / 21mph
5.2°C ±0.2
52% SSE
8 / 17mph
5.5°C ±0.2
50% SSE
8 / 16mph
6.3°C ±0.7
48% SSE
8 / 18mph
7.1°C ±0.2
10% S
8 / 17mph
6.7°C ±0.4
12% SW
8 / 17mph
6.2°C ±0.3
17% SW
8 / 16mph
Sun
7 Dec
2025
5.8°C ±0.3
8% WSW
7 / 14mph
5.4°C ±0.2
9% : WSW
6 / 13mph
5.1°C ±0.2
9% : SW
6 / 11mph
5.3°C ±0.2
7% : WSW
6 / 12mph
6.2°C ±0.7
7% : WSW
6 / 13mph
6.9°C ±0.1
8% : SW
6 / 13mph
6.2°C ±0.5
11% SW
7 / 13mph
5.9°C ±0.1
50% SW
7 / 14mph
Locations: Leeds, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Lusaka

Headline:
Cloudy with rain then showers Tuesday
This Evening and Tonight:
Cloudy with continued rain on and off through the evening and first half of the night. Drier and clearer into the early hours with winds easing, allowing temperatures to drop. Minimum temperature 5°C.
Tuesday:
A bright day on Tuesday with sunny spells and just the chance of a shower. The breeze slowly easing but maintaining a cooler feel. Maximum temperature 9°C.
Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:
Looking to remain bright on Wednesday with just the small risk of a shower. Further spells of rain likely into Thursday. Drier Friday after a colder, misty start.
Updated:

Notes

This forecast originally used publicly available information from the Met Office's DataPoint service. This is being discontinued in late 2025 (and was increasing unreliable running up to that date), and is replaced by the DataHub service. Which is being used for the above forecast.

DataHub is more complex to process, but provides more information and better global coverage. Each table cell above contains, in order:

  • The predicted temperature, in degrees Celsius. DataHub provides a maximum and a minimum, and I've averaged these and given the possible variation (the ± figure).
    Maxima over 25°C and 30°C are highlighted thusly.
    Similarly, minima below 5°C and 0°C are highlighted.
  • The next line contains the probablity of any precipitation (rain, mostly), followed by...
  • ...the wind direction.
  • The final text line gives the predicted average wind, followed by the maximum gust. DataHub uses m/sec, but I've converted these to mph.
    Calm weather (≤5mph wind), strong gusts (≥25mph) and storm-force gusts (≥40mph) are highlighted.
  • Finally, there's an icon representing the prevailing weather type.
A in the cell means there's extra information present -- hover over the cell to see it. For example, all midnight cells contain this symbol, and the pop-up shows the visibility. This is ground-level only, and doesn't mean clear skies! Other extra information may include significant -- over 10% probability -- rain/snow (as light/heavy probability, and total amount) and hail and lightning probability.

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Rain radar

Lightning

Credits

Data courtesy of the Met Office DataHub service.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Analysis coding by Admin1, written in Python.