{"id":412850,"date":"2026-02-07T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412850\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:51:08","slug":"when-will-the-rain-end-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412850\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will The Rain End In The UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a soggy year it\u2019s been so far. January alone saw three named storms \u2013 Gerotti<\/a>, Ingrid, and Chandra \u2013 batter our shores, bringing with them snow, rain<\/a>, and wind. <\/p>\n

February has certainly not been drier. Reading, for instance<\/a>, saw the longest continuous rainfall (25 consecutive days) that the town\u2019s university\u2019s Atmospheric Observatory has ever observed. <\/p>\n

Aberdeen, meanwhile, has seen no rainfall<\/a> for two weeks straight. Multiple yellow rain warnings<\/a> are in place across the UK today (Friday, 6 February), too.<\/p>\n

Which begs the question: why is the rain so relentless, and when oh when will it end? <\/p>\n

Why is the rain so bad in the UK right now?<\/p>\n

Recently, the UK (and much of Europe) has been affected by an unusually southerly jet stream. This drives areas of low pressure north-east up to the UK, and is partly caused by a large range of temperatures across the Atlantic Ocean right now.<\/p>\n

Low pressure weather fronts are associated with<\/a> rain, wind, and unsettled conditions.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s also a stubborn area of high pressure which is staying in place across north-east Europe, which helps to keep the jet affecting our weather in its southerly position. It also means areas of low pressure move more slowly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That, the Met Office said<\/a>, has resulted in a \u201cconveyor belt of low\u2011pressure systems bringing frequent rain, strong winds, and, at times, wintry hazards\u201d.<\/p>\n

When will the rain end?<\/p>\n

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like the barrage of rain will stay with us for a while. <\/p>\n

According to the Met Office\u2019s<\/a> operational meteorologist, Dan Stroud, \u201cUnfortunately, there\u2019s no end in sight… we\u2019ve got a big area of high pressure way out to the far north and east of the country, and that\u2019s stopping areas of low pressure from moving through.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil that area of high pressure sort of shifts out of the way, we\u2019re not really going to see much of a change in the forecast.\u201d <\/p>\n

Southwestern regions of the UK are especially likely to<\/a> face very high rainfall this week.<\/p>\n

And while next week (starting 8 Feb) shows<\/a> \u201ctentative signs of a subtle shift\u201d and northern parts of the UK are expected to become a little drier thanks to shifts in the blocking area of high pressure, that bad weather \u201cconveyor belt\u201d is expected to continue into the month.<\/p>\n

This is because the jet stream\u2019s return to its current position is predicted to encourage more soggy southern conditions. <\/p>\n

In fact, the Met Office\u2019s long-range forecast says that even as far away as 6 March, \u201clow pressure systems will probably dominate\u201d the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a soggy year it\u2019s been so far. January alone saw three named storms \u2013 Gerotti, Ingrid, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,1039,56,54,55,1068],"class_list":["post-412850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-rain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}