Vermilion Sands: Weather forecast

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Met Office 7-day forecast for Leeds (Potternewton)

Model run at 2300, Sat 18 Apr 2026. All times UTC.
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Sat
18 Apr
2026		 9.4°C ±1.8
0% : W
12 / 21mph
Sun
19 Apr
2026		 6.9°C ±0.7
0% ★ WNW
10 / 22mph
 5.7°C ±0.7
0% : WNW
6 / 17mph
 4.6°C ±0.4
0% : WNW
5 / 16mph
 7.1°C ±2.4
0% : NNW
6 / 11mph
 10.3°C ±0.9
5% : NNW
5 / 8mph
 11.5°C ±0.3
5% : NNW
5 / 9mph
 11.2°C ±0.6
47% ★ N
5 / 9mph
 9.4°C ±1.2
6% : ENE
4 / 7mph
Mon
20 Apr
2026		 7.4°C ±0.8
2% ★ SSW
3 / 7mph
 6.0°C ±0.6
1% : ENE
2 / 4mph
 5.4°C ±0.3
1% : NNE
2 / 4mph
 7.4°C ±1.6
32% ★ ENE
3 / 6mph
 9.8°C ±0.8
15% ★ ENE
5 / 10mph
 10.9°C ±0.3
41% ★ ENE
5 / 10mph
 10.0°C ±1.0
42% ★ ENE
6 / 12mph
 8.0°C ±1.1
6% : ENE
6 / 13mph
Tue
21 Apr
2026		 6.2°C ±0.7
8% ★ NE
5 / 11mph
 5.4°C ±0.2
15% ★ NE
6 / 14mph
 5.7°C ±0.3
10% ★ NE
8 / 16mph
 7.4°C ±1.5
4% : ENE
12 / 26mph
 9.7°C ±0.8
7% : ENE
14 / 29mph
 10.8°C ±0.3
1% : ENE
14 / 29mph
 9.9°C ±1.0
0% : ENE
12 / 24mph
 7.3°C ±1.6
0% : ENE
8 / 17mph
Wed
22 Apr
2026		 5.3°C ±0.8
0% ★ NE
7 / 15mph
 4.2°C ±0.4
0% : NE
7 / 14mph
 4.2°C ±0.4
0% : NE
7 / 15mph
 7.0°C ±2.6
0% : ENE
10 / 22mph
 11.1°C ±1.5
0% : ENE
12 / 27mph
 12.8°C ±0.2
0% : ENE
13 / 27mph
 11.3°C ±1.4
0% : ENE
11 / 22mph
 8.0°C ±1.9
1% : NE
8 / 16mph
Thu
23 Apr
2026		 6.1°C ±1.0
5% ★ NE
6 / 13mph
 4.9°C ±0.3
6% : NE
6 / 12mph
 4.9°C ±0.3
9% : NE
6 / 13mph
 6.6°C ±1.6
4% : NE
8 / 17mph
 10.1°C ±1.9
0% : ENE
8 / 18mph
 12.7°C ±0.8
0% : ENE
8 / 19mph
 12.3°C ±1.1
0% : ENE
8 / 16mph
 9.1°C ±2.1
1% : ENE
6 / 12mph
Fri
24 Apr
2026		 6.4°C ±1.3
2% ★ NE
4 / 9mph
 4.7°C ±0.5
6% : N
4 / 8mph
 4.8°C ±0.4
9% : NNE
5 / 10mph
 6.6°C ±1.8
7% : ENE
5 / 14mph
 10.3°C ±1.9
1% : ENE
6 / 15mph
 12.6°C ±0.4
1% : ENE
6 / 15mph
 12.5°C ±0.4
1% : NNE
7 / 14mph
 10.3°C ±1.8
2% : NE
6 / 12mph
Locations: Leeds, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Lusaka

Headline:
Showers easing this evening. Clear spells overnight, patchy ground frost.

This Evening and Tonight:
Any early evening showers soon dying away, leaving clearing skies, with winds easing. This will allow temperatures to fall with the chance of ground frost developing in prone rural spots. Minimum temperature 1°C.

Sunday:
A dry, sunny and chilly start. Cloud bubbling up during the morning but still with sunny spells. Cloud then thickening through the afternoon, with isolated showers possible later. Maximum temperature 13°C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:
Often cloudy on Monday with showers spreading inland from coastal areas. Drier on Tuesday and Wednesday with sunny spells. Becoming breezy, feeling cool especially on coasts. Chilly overnight.
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.

Select another location from the list below the table.

Rain radar

Lightning

Links

Weather warnings
NetWeather radar
Clouds, Lightning, Wind
Cities (from Time & Date): Leeds, Manchester,
London, Lusaka

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.