Met Office Evening Weather Forecast 08/02/24 - Rain for most, some snow to the north - video Dailymotion

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Rain across England and Wales this evening followed by blustery showers. Snow becoming confined to higher parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Southern Scotland tonight into tomorrow morning. Clearer conditions in western Scotland and further wintery showers in northeast Scotland. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 08/02/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.

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00:00 Hi there, it's been a complicated weather picture across the UK as mild and wet Atlantic

00:06 air moves north and comes up against cold Arctic air that we've had in place across

00:11 the northern two-thirds of the UK. And what we've seen through Thursday is one band of

00:16 rain moved north, turned to sleet and snow in places across Wales, northern England,

00:21 Northern Ireland and southern Scotland, and then another bout of rain moving into southern

00:25 parts of England and south Wales. Weather continues to be a yellow rain warning because

00:29 of the risk of further issues due to that heavy rain overnight and into the start of

00:34 Friday. Now, we've got that mild air moving north and it is winning out and as a result

00:40 the snow increasingly becoming confined to higher parts of northern England, peak district

00:46 northwards really, rain almost entirely now across Wales and increasingly the snow also

00:51 confined to hills across Northern Ireland into southern Scotland through the night above

00:55 150, 200 metres. But still, the scope for significant snow accumulations could cause

01:00 some issues over the Antrim Mountains, the Sperrins, the Mournes as well as the South

01:05 Pennines up into the southern uplands. And so, mostly this is a hill snow feature but

01:10 there could be some patchy snow at lower levels for parts of Scotland as the main band of

01:15 precipitation moves north overnight before eventually the snow level rises by the start

01:21 of Friday. And these are the kinds of amounts that could occur. So, a couple of centimetres

01:26 possible at lower levels initially before eventually above 300 metres most of that snow

01:30 will be lying 8 to 10 centimetres possible in places and that could cause some impacts

01:36 on the roads, for example, first thing Friday. Otherwise, it's rain that will be the main

01:42 talking point I think overnight across much of England and Wales away from higher parts

01:45 of northern England. Initially, a band of rain moving north and then followed on by

01:49 blustery showers into Wales, southern and south-western England. Further north again

01:55 to the north of this weather front we've got clear conditions across parts of western Scotland,

02:01 cloudier further east and north with further wintry showers coming through, further accumulating

02:05 snow for the far north and north-east of Scotland, for example. Minus 2 Celsius here but 10 Celsius

02:11 in the south first thing although it's not going to feel very pleasant with the blustery

02:15 showers moving through, merging to longer spells of rain to the south and south-west

02:18 as well as south Wales for a time, some heavy downpours but also some drier insolutes emerging

02:23 as the day goes on. Meanwhile, the main band of rain, sleet and hill snow moves north again

02:28 most of the snow settling over hills above 2 or 300 metres, could come down to lower

02:34 levels for a time across eastern Scotland but as the day goes on it will mostly be hill

02:39 snow and there will be some significant accumulations with temperatures here at 2 or 3 Celsius

02:45 but further south the mild air really taking control, 12 or 13 in the far south and with

02:51 some sunny spells coming through it's actually going to feel quite pleasant out of the breeze.

02:56 Now later Friday we're going to see that snow building up significantly over higher parts

03:01 of eastern Scotland as you can see, rain at lower levels certainly near the coast but

03:06 snow over the hills and some really substantial accumulations, 20 centimetres above 300 metres,

03:13 a few centimetres building up at lower levels and the further north you are across Scotland

03:18 the lower that snow height will be. So potential for disruption increasingly further north

03:26 as we go through Friday, the milder air affecting the rest of the UK, areas of cloud and showers,

03:32 certainly some showery rain for Northern Ireland into southern Scotland, northern England as

03:36 we go through Friday night into Saturday, some clear spells further south but further

03:40 showers come along for Wales and the south west and once again significant temperature

03:45 contrast close to freezing in the north and north east of Scotland but back to mid to

03:50 high single figures elsewhere across the country. We start Saturday with some sunshine for England

03:55 and Wales, certainly through central and south eastern parts but further showers are moving

04:00 in across Wales and the south west so never too far away from a shower towards the south

04:05 west but the best chance of any sunny spells will be across northern and eastern England.

04:10 Much of Scotland and Northern Ireland sees cloudy skies, outbreaks of rain and some hill

04:16 snow for the north and north east of Scotland but that will ease as the day goes on and

04:20 for many places it is relatively mild, 8 to 11 Celsius just clinging on to the cold air

04:26 there in the far north of Scotland. Plenty going on but eventually the wintry stuff becomes

04:32 confined to the north and then the far north with rain elsewhere but some brighter weather

04:39 into the weekend as well.

Met Office Evening Weather Forecast 08/02/24 - Rain for most, some snow to the north

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