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Following a fine start to the weekend, the weather turns increasingly blustery and changeable later Saturday. Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern has the forecast.

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00:00Hello and welcome to the weekend forecast from the Met Office. Following what has been

00:04a relatively calm week so far across many parts of the country, the weather is now turning

00:09much more changeable, more buoyant, more unsettled from the north. Having said that, this weekend

00:15starts off relatively dry in many areas and that continues for most of the day on Saturday

00:21before an area of wind and rain sweeps across the country later Saturday and into the start

00:26of Sunday followed by some very lively downpours on Sunday itself along with an increasingly

00:32strong wind. We've got that sort of thing actually on Friday afternoon into the evening

00:37in the south east with some lively downpours, strong winds pushing through quite quickly.

00:43The weather then calms down a little into Friday night, further showers into the north

00:47and the west of Scotland and Northern Ireland, perhaps some sleet and snow mixed in with

00:51these showers in the north of Scotland but elsewhere clear spells. Although under those

00:56clear skies because we've still got a bit of a breeze, we're not going to see temperatures

01:00fall especially far. We're not going to have a frosty foggy start to Saturday like we have

01:04seen during many of the mornings during the week so far. We are going to see a largely

01:09settled start because we've got a brief weather window, a breather in between weather systems

01:15either side of the UK, this very subtle ridge of high pressure affecting many places. So

01:22a lot of brightness, north east Scotland a few more wintry showers to come, sleet and

01:26snow perhaps but otherwise it's sunny spells and in the south and the east it's largely

01:31bright and dry throughout Saturday. Meanwhile for the higher ground of Wales, Northern England,

01:36Scotland and Northern Ireland, the cloud thickens, we're going to see some damp weather pushing

01:40back in and then the rain turns more persistent and heavy later Saturday into the north and

01:45west of Scotland as well as Northern Ireland because of this weather front. The wind picks

01:49up here as well so that's not going to make it feel particularly pleasant but technically

01:52temperatures while they're not going to be on the chilly side, we're looking at double

01:56figures for most places. You can see this weather system pushing through most places

02:01during the hours of darkness on Saturday night so a spell of two to three hours of wet and

02:06windy weather before it is out of the way as most people are up on Sunday. Having said

02:13that there's further rain on the way in the form of showers for Sunday, mainly as we begin

02:19the day for northern and western Britain but virtually everyone's seeing a heavy downpour

02:23or two or several by the end of the afternoon on Sunday. All of that accompanied by an increasingly

02:30strong wind, gusts of around 50 miles an hour surrounding the showers during the daytime

02:35on Sunday and you wouldn't rule out hail and thunder combined with the showers as well

02:40and also some sleet and snow affecting say northern hills. But with all of that going

02:47on of course it's not going to feel very pleasant whatever the temperatures, 11 or 12 in the

02:51south, colder further north. And then the winds of particular concern heading into Sunday

02:57night because you can see this tightening of the ice bars to the west of the UK and

03:03that tends to spread its way into southwestern parts of the country for Sunday evening and

03:10later on in the night as well. And that at the moment, we're keeping an eye on it but

03:14that could bring the potential of more than 60 mile per hour gusts for say parts of Cornwall,

03:20northern parts of Devon. So we'll keep our eye on that over the next few days, we'll

03:24keep you updated as well on the forecast heading into the weekend and the best way to follow

03:29those updates is to follow us on social media. Bye bye.

Weekend weather – Blustery and changeable 05/12/19

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