Weekend weather 11/07/2024 – Hit and miss showers - video Dailymotion

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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the weekend 11/07/2024. Drier and brighter for many of us this weekend but not entirely dry and bright - there'll still be some showers around. Bringing you this weekend’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.

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00:00Hi there. After a week dominated by low pressure, below average temperatures and a lot of rainfall,

00:08it is positive to see an area of high pressure moving in from the west. But, wait a minute,

00:14it's actually heading to the north of the UK and not directly over the top of the country

00:19and that means there is still some influence from low pressure, especially in the upper

00:23atmosphere with an upper low sitting over the UK, there's going to be lots of rising

00:27air. Having said that, some places will get away with a mostly dry weekend. That can't

00:33be said for the east of the country, especially south-east Scotland, north-east England, where

00:38we're going to see a lot of low cloud and some outbreaks of rain on and off through

00:41Saturday. Brighter skies will be more prevalent further west, north-west Scotland seeing some

00:47sunny spells, parts of south Wales into the south-west also seeing some sunshine. But

00:51as the temperatures rise on Saturday, there will be a scattering of heavy showers developing,

00:57particularly towards the south-west, north-west England, northern Ireland for example. These

01:01will be hit and miss however and some places will avoid them, staying dry but temperatures

01:06across the board tending to be below average once again. 20 Celsius in the south and south-west

01:12but just 13 or 14 in the North Sea coast where we've got this breeze coming in from the north.

01:18And you can see the extent of the wet weather on this rainfall accumulations graphic. This

01:23shows the 12 hour accumulations between 6am and 6pm on Saturday. And this broad area of

01:29blue colours just indicates that persistent damp weather that we're expecting across northern

01:34and north-east England, perhaps into parts of Norfolk, north-east Scotland as well. No

01:38huge amounts but it's going to be a dull and damp day nevertheless. With the showers more

01:44likely elsewhere, you can see the speckled nature of the rain accumulations across northern

01:47Ireland, Wales and the south-west. So very hit and miss, some places getting heavy downpours,

01:52other places avoiding them and staying dry which is indicated by the white colours here

01:56for example, south-east England, western Scotland. So very variable amounts of rain on Saturday

02:01but certainly not as widely wet as we saw earlier in the week. And with high pressure

02:06still close by on Sunday, it's still going to be a lot of fine weather but not entirely

02:11dry. Still low pressure to the east and another low starting to approach from the west and

02:16the jet stream once again sitting to the south of the UK. So we've got this cool side of

02:21the jet stream that the UK is sitting on and this rising air across the country. Having

02:25said that, Sunday starts with plenty of sunshine across much of England and Wales although

02:29north-east England as well as southern and eastern Scotland are still seeing a lot of

02:33low cloud and some drizzly rain for a time but much of that's moving into the North Sea.

02:38Once again there'll be showers developing through the afternoon especially across some

02:42central and southern parts, northern Ireland for example, but these will be even more hit

02:47and miss compared with Saturday's showers and as you can see there's plenty of dry weather

02:51away from those showers with some places just avoiding them entirely and staying dry

02:55and bright with temperatures responding well actually on Sunday. It's a warmer day by two

03:00or three degrees for most, 23 Celsius possible in the south, feeling a little more humid

03:05and temperatures recovering in the north-east although still with a lot of cloud it's going

03:09to feel more humid but it's not especially going to be warm where we've got that cloud

03:13cover, 17 Celsius most likely. So a mixed weekend to come but certainly a chance of

03:19some dry and brighter weather compared with earlier in the week although that wouldn't

03:22be too difficult would it?

Weekend weather 11/07/2024 – Hit and miss showers

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