Met Office Afternoon Weather Forecast 08/02/24 - Rain slowly pushing northwards - video Dailymotion

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Rain, sleet and snow across central and northern parts of the UK. This band moves northwards into southern Scotland into the afternoon. Cold temperatures and easterly winds in the north, mild temperatures and a southerly wind in the south. Rain arrives in the south mid-afternoon. The band of rain moves north throughout tonight with snow in higher areas. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 08/02/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.

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00:00 Hi there, the weather is messy for the rest of Thursday in many places as is often the

00:05 case when you have two competing air masses across the UK. We've got cold Arctic air moving

00:11 south across the northern half of the UK, Atlantic much milder air moving north and

00:17 where these two air masses collide a band of precipitation which has been falling as

00:23 rain in the south, rain, sleet and snow across central and northern parts of the UK. Now

00:29 we've seen some substantial sleet and snow affecting parts of mid and north Wales, the

00:33 north midlands through the morning but here's the boundary between the much milder air and

00:38 the colder conditions, it's moving north. So the snow generally turning back to rain

00:43 although there is the risk early part of the afternoon of some freezing rain for a time

00:47 across higher parts of north Wales, hence the amber warning here and there's the risk

00:51 of continued snowfall from the peak district northwards across northern England into northern

00:57 Ireland and southern Scotland during the rest of the afternoon. Now at lower levels it's

01:03 certainly a mixed picture, some places will get rain, some places will get a patchy covering

01:09 of snow depending on how heavy the precipitation is but generally it's turning back to rain

01:15 from the south as the afternoon goes on and it's just higher parts that will see the greatest

01:21 risk of disruption. So for northern Ireland 15 centimetres above 150 metres, for northern

01:27 parts of England 2 to 5 centimetres above 200 metres, 10 centimetres for some of the

01:33 higher areas and that could cause disruption on some of the higher trans-Pennine routes

01:38 but this amber warning therefore parts of the peak district into the south Pennines

01:42 a continued risk of 25 centimetres above 300 metres. But as I mentioned down at lower levels

01:49 where some of the main populated centres are it's mostly going to be rain, increasingly

01:53 so as that milder air feeds in from the south during the afternoon. Now in the far south

01:59 after a wet start some drier interludes during Thursday afternoon but another bout of wet

02:03 weather arrives as we end the day that could cause further issues of course coming at a

02:08 busy time in the afternoon, some heavy and persistent wet weather and throughout Thursday

02:13 25 millimetres and in some places 45 millimetres of rain accumulating. Gusty winds here and

02:19 a gusty wind also blowing east to west across parts of northern England, not going to feel

02:25 very pleasant in that wind, it's going to feel cold. And across Scotland actually brighter

02:29 skies here, fewer wintry showers in the far north compared with recent days but still

02:34 we've seen some impacts from the snow in Orkney, continued disruption here and there could

02:39 be a few more sleet and snow showers falling throughout Thursday afternoon. But sunshine

02:43 in between and look at that temperature contrast 2 to 5 Celsius at best in the north, lower

02:48 than that where the snow continues to fall across higher parts of northern England into

02:52 Northern Ireland and southern Scotland but 12 or 13 Celsius in the south although not

02:57 feeling very pleasant in the wind and rain. Heading into the afternoon we follow that

03:01 band of rain, sleet and hill snow northwards and increasingly as the milder air mixes in

03:05 it is going to be turning back to rain away from the highest peaks of northern England,

03:10 southern and central Scotland and there's increasingly a risk of disruption across parts

03:16 of Scotland as we go through Thursday night but mostly it's going to be over higher parts,

03:21 always a chance that snow will come down to lower parts inland but this will be very patchy,

03:28 most of the accumulations will be above 300 metres, risk of 10 centimetres in places,

03:32 again enough to cause disruption as we start off Friday. But for the rest of the UK on

03:38 Thursday night we've got spells of rain pushing north across the southern half of the country,

03:43 heavy and persistent followed by lively showers coming into southern counties of England and

03:47 south Wales. Further sleet and snow showers arriving into the north and east of Scotland

03:51 ahead of the main band of precipitation and this by the end of the night will be mostly

03:55 rain across northern Ireland, much of northern England away from the highest peaks and southern

04:00 Scotland also seeing increasingly persistent rain, sleet and hill snow. An easterly breeze

04:06 continues across the northern half of the UK, southwesterlies in the south and it's

04:11 going to be blustery for many areas as we begin Friday but a mild start in the south,

04:16 9 or 10 Celsius, closer to freezing further north where we've got the wintry weather continuing

04:21 throughout the day on Friday. Again you can see by the blues a lot of this is rain at

04:25 lower levels but certainly further issues to do with snowfall over higher parts of Scotland

04:30 and increasingly that snow will affect eastern parts of Scotland above 100, 200 metres or

04:36 so. Yellow snow and ice warning in force for eastern and northern Scotland for the second

04:42 half of Friday because there's the risk of above 200, 300 metres of 10 to 20 centimetres

04:49 of snow building up over the Grampians and the Highlands and could see some smaller amounts

04:54 at lower levels as well. But elsewhere across the UK we're well and truly into the mild

04:58 air by this stage so that it's rain showers circulating around an area of low pressure.

05:04 Those showers will be hit and miss, there could be some heavy downpours later Friday

05:08 across southeastern parts, they'll move away into the night time. And the weekend sees

05:13 more rain, sleet and snow across eastern and northern Scotland, much of the snow over the

05:17 hills but elsewhere across the UK it's considerably milder with areas of rain or showers.

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Met Office Afternoon Weather Forecast 08/02/24 - Rain slowly pushing northwards

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