{"id":734935,"date":"2026-08-11T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734935\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:30:08","slug":"solar-eclipse-2026-whats-the-weather-forecast-for-the-uk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734935\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse 2026: What&#8217;s the weather forecast for the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the most spectacular solar eclipses the UK has seen for decades is taking place on Wednesday 12 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From around 18:00 BST, the Moon will begin moving across the face of the Sun, creating a partial solar eclipse across the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At its peak, around 90% of the Sun will be covered from London. In Cornwall, as much as 95% of the Sun could be obscured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Depending on where you are in the UK, it will peak between 19:02 and 19:16 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most spectacular solar eclipses the UK has seen for decades is taking place on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734935","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=734935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}