Vermilion Sands: Weather forecast

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Met Office 7-day forecast for Leeds (Potternewton)

Model run at 1700, Tue 24 Feb 2026. All times UTC.
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Tue
24 Feb
2026		 13.3°C ±0.5
9% : SSW
16 / 22mph
 12.8°C ±0.8
0% : S
8 / 16mph
 10.9°C ±1.1
0% : S
8 / 20mph
Wed
25 Feb
2026		 9.2°C ±0.6
0% ★ S
7 / 17mph
 8.3°C ±0.3
0% : SSE
6 / 13mph
 8.2°C ±0.2
7% : SSE
6 / 12mph
 8.8°C ±0.7
5% : S
6 / 14mph
 11.0°C ±1.6
6% : SSW
8 / 16mph
 13.1°C ±0.5
11% ★ SW
13 / 25mph
 12.9°C ±0.6
18% ★ SW
9 / 20mph
 11.8°C ±0.5
12% ★ SW
9 / 20mph
Thu
26 Feb
2026		 10.9°C ±0.4
9% ★ SW
10 / 22mph
 10.3°C ±0.2
16% ★ SW
11 / 23mph
 10.0°C ±0.1
9% : SW
11 / 24mph
 10.1°C ±0.2
13% ★ SW
12 / 25mph
 10.5°C ±0.3
61% ★ SW
14 / 28mph
 10.7°C ±0.1
57% ★ SW
16 / 31mph
 10.3°C ±0.3
21% ★ SW
13 / 26mph
 9.9°C ±0.2
10% ★ SW
12 / 23mph
Fri
27 Feb
2026		 9.5°C ±0.2
12% ★ SSW
9 / 18mph
 9.2°C ±0.1
16% ★ SSW
8 / 15mph
 8.9°C ±0.2
48% ★ S
9 / 17mph
 8.7°C ±0.3
47% ★ W
10 / 19mph
 9.5°C ±0.9
38% ★ WSW
11 / 22mph
 10.1°C ±0.2
37% ★ WSW
11 / 21mph
 8.7°C ±1.3
35% ★ W
11 / 20mph
 6.7°C ±0.7
14% ★ WNW
10 / 19mph
Sat
28 Feb
2026		 5.5°C ±0.5
37% ★ WNW
9 / 18mph
 4.6°C ±0.4
14% ★ W
7 / 14mph
 3.8°C ±0.5
7% : W
7 / 12mph
 4.1°C ±0.7
2% : WSW
6 / 13mph
 6.3°C ±1.5
4% : SW
9 / 19mph
 8.2°C ±0.3
9% : SW
11 / 21mph
 7.9°C ±0.5
11% ★ SSW
10 / 19mph
 7.1°C ±0.3
10% ★ SSW
11 / 21mph
Sun
1 Mar
2026		 6.9°C ±0.1
13% ★ SSW
12 / 23mph
 7.0°C ±0.1
54% ★ SSW
12 / 23mph
 7.1°C ±0.1
47% ★ SSW
12 / 21mph
 7.6°C ±0.4
13% ★ SSW
12 / 22mph
 9.0°C ±1.0
12% ★ SW
13 / 26mph
 10.5°C ±0.5
9% : SSW
12 / 23mph
 10.3°C ±0.7
16% ★ S
10 / 19mph
 9.3°C ±0.4
46% ★ S
11 / 20mph
Mon
2 Mar
2026		 8.7°C ±0.3
7% ★ S
11 / 20mph
 8.1°C ±0.3
8% : S
10 / 19mph
 7.7°C ±0.2
4% : S
10 / 18mph
 8.1°C ±0.6
5% : S
11 / 20mph
 9.9°C ±1.2
4% : SSW
12 / 24mph
 11.6°C ±0.5
5% : SSW
12 / 23mph
 11.1°C ±0.9
5% : SSW
10 / 19mph
 9.4°C ±0.8
10% ★ SW
9 / 18mph
Locations: Leeds, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Lusaka

Headline:
A clear night for most. Cloudy with some rain Wednesday.

This Evening and Tonight:
Cloud will break up for most overnight, with clearing skies and easing winds, but remaining gusty along the coast. Cloud may linger across hills. Relatively mild overnight. Minimum temperature 5°C.

Wednesday:
Becoming cloudy and mild with some brighter spells, later outbreaks of rain will spread eastwards across the region by the evening. Maximum temperature 15°C.

Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:
Cloudy and mild with occasional rain on Thursday, mainly in the west with strengthening winds. Overnight rain clearing early Friday, then cooler with blustery showers. Saturday turns drier and settled.
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

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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.