Vermilion Sands: Weather forecast

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Met Office 7-day forecast for Leeds (Potternewton)

Model run at 1800, Sat 4 Oct 2025. All times UTC.
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Sat
4 Oct
2025
12.0°C ±0.8
18% W
14 / 35mph
10.9°C ±0.5
30% W
17 / 36mph
Sun
5 Oct
2025
10.2°C ±0.4
5% W
19 / 40mph
9.9°C ±0.1
0% : W
16 / 35mph
9.8°C ±0.2
1% : WNW
15 / 33mph
10.7°C ±1.0
2% : WNW
16 / 33mph
12.5°C ±0.8
9% : WNW
16 / 33mph
12.9°C ±0.3
9% : WNW
14 / 29mph
12.5°C ±0.3
10% W
11 / 25mph
12.5°C ±0.2
8% W
9 / 21mph
Mon
6 Oct
2025
12.6°C ±0.1
10% W
10 / 22mph
12.4°C ±0.2
5% : W
12 / 26mph
12.2°C ±0.1
8% : W
11 / 25mph
12.8°C ±0.8
8% : WSW
10 / 22mph
14.6°C ±1.1
1% : W
13 / 25mph
16.0°C ±0.4
2% : WSW
11 / 23mph
15.6°C ±0.8
1% : WSW
7 / 16mph
14.2°C ±0.7
1% : WSW
9 / 18mph
Tue
7 Oct
2025
12.9°C ±0.5
4% WSW
9 / 20mph
12.3°C ±0.2
4% : WSW
10 / 22mph
12.2°C ±0.1
4% : SW
10 / 20mph
12.7°C ±0.6
5% : SW
10 / 20mph
14.1°C ±0.8
5% : WSW
11 / 24mph
15.4°C ±0.5
8% : WSW
10 / 22mph
15.1°C ±0.8
4% : SW
7 / 15mph
13.9°C ±0.4
4% : SW
7 / 14mph
Wed
8 Oct
2025
13.2°C ±0.3
5% WSW
6 / 13mph
12.7°C ±0.2
7% : WSW
6 / 12mph
12.3°C ±0.3
6% : W
5 / 11mph
12.4°C ±0.4
4% : WNW
6 / 14mph
13.8°C ±1.0
3% : WNW
7 / 16mph
14.8°C ±0.1
3% : WNW
8 / 17mph
13.5°C ±1.2
2% : WNW
6 / 13mph
11.4°C ±0.9
1% : W
5 / 11mph
Thu
9 Oct
2025
10.1°C ±0.4
1% W
5 / 11mph
9.6°C ±0.2
1% : W
5 / 11mph
9.5°C ±0.1
1% : W
6 / 12mph
10.9°C ±1.4
1% : W
8 / 17mph
13.3°C ±1.0
4% : W
10 / 23mph
14.5°C ±0.2
4% : W
10 / 22mph
13.5°C ±1.0
5% : W
8 / 16mph
12.2°C ±0.4
4% : W
7 / 13mph
Fri
10 Oct
2025
11.6°C ±0.2
1% W
6 / 13mph
11.2°C ±0.2
4% : W
6 / 13mph
10.9°C ±0.2
5% : W
6 / 13mph
11.6°C ±0.9
5% : W
7 / 16mph
13.3°C ±0.9
5% : W
8 / 19mph
14.0°C ±0.1
5% : W
8 / 18mph
13.1°C ±0.8
4% : WNW
6 / 13mph
11.9°C ±0.5
4% : WNW
5 / 11mph
Locations: Leeds, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Lusaka

Headline:
Showers dying out. Remaining windy.
This Evening and Tonight:
Lingering showers quickly becoming isolated and confined to the Pennines this evening, then dying out. Otherwise dry with clear spells. Windy, with a risk of gales still, especially over high ground and along the coast. Minimum temperature 7°C.
Sunday:
Morning sunny spells give way to cloud thickening from the west, with some outbreaks of rain. Strongest winds easing somewhat, but still remaining quite breezy. Maximum temperature 14°C.
Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:
Often cloudy with some outbreaks of mostly light rain. Still rather breezy at first, but this easing into Wednesday. Mild.
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.