Vermilion Sands: Weather forecast

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Met Office 7-day forecast for Leeds (Potternewton)

Model run at 1400, Sat 6 Jun 2026. All times UTC.
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Sat
6 Jun
2026		 12.1°C ±0.4
39% ★ ESE
7 / 17mph
 13.8°C ±1.3
43% ★ ESE
6 / 13mph
 15.5°C ±0.5
46% ★ SSW
2 / 3mph
 15.2°C ±0.8
10% ★ W
6 / 14mph
Sun
7 Jun
2026		 13.9°C ±0.8
43% ★ W
10 / 21mph
 12.5°C ±0.7
4% : WSW
9 / 23mph
 12.3°C ±0.5
9% : SW
9 / 18mph
 14.4°C ±1.6
7% : SW
12 / 23mph
 16.9°C ±0.9
9% : SW
16 / 30mph
 17.6°C ±0.2
11% ★ SW
15 / 27mph
 16.8°C ±0.8
50% ★ SW
13 / 24mph
 14.9°C ±1.1
50% ★ SSW
11 / 22mph
Mon
8 Jun
2026		 13.6°C ±0.3
17% ★ SSW
9 / 20mph
 13.1°C ±0.2
49% ★ S
8 / 18mph
 12.9°C ±0.1
84% ★ SSW
9 / 18mph
 12.6°C ±0.3
83% ★ WSW
7 / 13mph
 13.0°C ±0.6
86% ★ W
8 / 16mph
 13.9°C ±0.7
41% ★ WNW
10 / 21mph
 14.0°C ±0.5
7% : W
12 / 23mph
 12.1°C ±1.3
1% : W
8 / 16mph
Tue
9 Jun
2026		 10.1°C ±0.7
1% ★ WSW
7 / 14mph
 9.1°C ±0.3
3% : WSW
7 / 14mph
 9.4°C ±0.5
11% ★ WSW
8 / 16mph
 11.1°C ±1.1
35% ★ WSW
11 / 24mph
 12.8°C ±0.7
39% ★ WSW
13 / 27mph
 13.5°C ±0.3
39% ★ WSW
13 / 27mph
 13.1°C ±0.4
33% ★ W
12 / 24mph
 11.8°C ±1.0
4% : W
9 / 18mph
Wed
10 Jun
2026		 10.1°C ±0.6
5% ★ WSW
8 / 16mph
 9.2°C ±0.4
7% : WSW
8 / 14mph
 9.4°C ±0.6
6% : WSW
8 / 15mph
 11.3°C ±1.3
7% : WSW
10 / 22mph
 13.2°C ±0.7
37% ★ WSW
11 / 24mph
 14.0°C ±0.6
32% ★ W
12 / 24mph
 13.8°C ±0.4
7% : W
11 / 21mph
 12.2°C ±1.2
6% : WSW
7 / 14mph
Thu
11 Jun
2026		 10.4°C ±0.7
8% ★ SW
7 / 13mph
 9.5°C ±0.3
5% : SW
7 / 13mph
 9.8°C ±0.6
8% : SW
8 / 15mph
 11.5°C ±1.2
12% ★ SW
10 / 21mph
 13.6°C ±0.9
17% ★ SW
12 / 23mph
 14.7°C ±0.4
20% ★ SW
12 / 24mph
 14.4°C ±0.5
20% ★ SW
11 / 22mph
 13.2°C ±0.8
18% ★ SW
10 / 18mph
Fri
12 Jun
2026		 12.0°C ±0.3
13% ★ SW
10 / 19mph
 11.5°C ±0.2
14% ★ WSW
10 / 19mph
 11.7°C ±0.3
11% ★ WSW
11 / 20mph
 12.9°C ±1.0
11% ★ WSW
14 / 27mph
 14.8°C ±0.8
30% ★ W
15 / 30mph
 15.8°C ±0.3
8% : W
15 / 30mph
 15.6°C ±0.4
8% : W
14 / 28mph
 14.2°C ±1.0
6% : W
12 / 22mph
Locations: Leeds, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Lusaka

Headline:
Showers easing, becoming largely dry overnight. Breezy.

This Evening and Tonight:
Showers continuing on and off this evening, largely easing as skies clear during the second half of the night. Generally breezy, with locally gusty winds developing, particularly over the higher Pennine routes. Minimum temperature 9°C.

Sunday:
Variable amounts of cloud but a dry, fairly bright and breezy day for many. Some intermittent rain possible during the afternoon, mainly across western hills, though this fairly isolated. Maximum temperature 20°C.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:
Cloud and rain giving way to sunshine and showers on Monday. Temperatures trending lower. Rather cool and breezy Tuesday and Wednesday with sunny spells, scattered showers and possible afternoon thunderstorms.
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.