Weekend Weather 04/01/2024 – Turning drier and colder - Met Office UK Forecast - video Dailymotion

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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the weekend, dated 04/01/2024  After a wet and windy start to 2024 the weather patterns are shifting and drier and calmer and colder weather is on the way.  Bringing you this weekend’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.  ~  We are the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, and every day of the week we bring you a morning weather forecast and an afternoon weather forecast so that wherever you are in the UK we have you covered.  Forecast and any weather warnings are accurate at time of recording. To ensure you have the most up to date weather information, check the hourly forecast and live warnings on the Met Office website or app.

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00:00 After a wet, windy, even wild starts to the year,

00:03 what does the first weekend of 2024 have in store?

00:07 The answer, something calmer, something drier,

00:11 and something a little bit colder.

00:13 Now, it doesn't look much drier with low pressure systems

00:15 dominating the scene on Friday.

00:17 But what happens is high pressure to the south,

00:19 high pressure to the north merge together

00:21 and push away those low pressure systems.

00:23 The high takes over, the ice bars open up,

00:26 meaning the winds will be fairly light.

00:29 But as well as turning drier with high pressure,

00:31 meaning the air is sinking, it will also be turning colder.

00:35 If we rewind and look at that again

00:37 with the temperature profile on,

00:39 you can see reasonably mild conditions

00:41 to start with through Friday.

00:42 But as we go through the weekend,

00:44 colder air seeps in from the north.

00:47 So it will be turning noticeably chillier

00:50 during both Saturday and Sunday,

00:52 with more in the way of nighttime frosts.

00:54 And that is likely to continue well into next week.

00:57 Let's go through the weekend then,

00:59 breaking it down day by day.

01:00 With high pressure and light winds,

01:02 we will have a frost across many northern areas

01:04 to start the weekend.

01:06 Not going to be completely dry,

01:07 a few showers drifting down through the Irish Sea

01:09 into north and west Wales.

01:11 Showers likely to continue over the far north of Scotland

01:14 through the mainland and the Northern Isles,

01:15 where it'll also be fairly breezy.

01:17 There'll be some stubborn areas of cloud around too,

01:20 most likely over the Midlands and eastern England.

01:22 And they could provide one or two showers

01:24 here and there also.

01:25 But for the vast majority, it will be dry.

01:28 And I'm reasonably hopeful that much of Northern Ireland,

01:30 southern Scotland, a good part of Wales,

01:32 and southwest England will see some lengthy spells of sunshine.

01:36 For most as well, the winds will be light.

01:38 But there could be a bit of a brisk breeze blowing

01:41 across East Anglia and the far southeast,

01:43 certainly likely over northern Scotland.

01:45 And it is going to be cold, even where it's sunny.

01:48 Temperature's only five or six degrees, maybe eight or nine

01:51 across the far south.

01:52 Fairly close to average for the time of year,

01:54 but colder certainly than it has been,

01:57 and feeling colder where it does stay windy.

01:59 Notice the ice bars stay fairly close together

02:01 across the southeast, even into Sunday,

02:04 even as that high pressure starts to build in.

02:07 So again, here there'll be a fairly brisk wind.

02:10 But with that high pressure dominating, again,

02:13 most places are looking dry.

02:14 Even the showers over the Northern Isles of Scotland

02:16 should start to ease.

02:18 Again, it's not going to be blue sky everywhere.

02:20 There will be some stubborn, cloudier zones,

02:22 particularly through the Midlands,

02:24 parts of eastern England.

02:25 And there could also be some stubborn fog patches,

02:28 light winds, high pressure, and saturated ground.

02:33 It does mean fog is going to become more of an issue

02:35 over the next few days.

02:37 And the time of year, it could be a bit tricky for it

02:39 to clear away.

02:40 So some stubborn fog patches, but again,

02:42 many central and western areas dry and bright

02:44 with decent spars of sunshine.

02:45 Certainly most areas will be dry, even if it's cloudy.

02:49 Where it is cloudy, though, temperatures

02:51 could struggle to get much above four or five

02:53 Celsius on Sunday.

02:54 So again, colder still than Saturday.

02:57 And that brisk wind across East Anglia and the southeast

03:00 will make it feel colder still.

03:02 These are the feels like temperatures.

03:04 So just one or two degrees, how it could feel on Sunday.

03:07 So yes, it will feel noticeably colder with the frost returning

03:11 on Sunday night.

03:13 So the weather is calming down, thankfully.

03:15 And finally, more details, as always, on our app

03:18 and on our website.

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Weekend Weather 04/01/2024 – Turning drier and colder - Met Office UK Forecast

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