UK weather: Drought declared as Met Office maps reveal where rain is most likely next weekThe UK's fourth heatwave eases and rain returns, but not everywhere will see it. But could any rain finally ease the dry weather by next week? Further north, it will remain more changeable with showers affecting Scotland and Northern Ireland, and a few of thesereaching northern England. At the moment, forecast maps suggest Scotland, northern England and North Wales are most likely to see the wettest conditions. That would bring another spell of largely dry weather with temperatures close to average.