Weekend weather – Jorge to bring rain then wind 27/02/20 - video Dailymotion

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Storm Jorge, named by the Spanish Met Service, arrives this weekend. Initially, the rain during Friday and Saturday is of particular concern. Then the rain clears but the wind strengthens. Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern has all the details.

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00:00Hello and welcome to the Met Office forecast for the weekend. Plenty to talk about once

00:05again this weekend. Unsettled weather in place across the UK. Initially on Friday and the

00:10start of Saturday, it will be wet weather that is the main concern. Then once the persistent

00:16rain is out of the way during Saturday morning, our attention turns to the strengthening winds

00:21Saturday afternoon, Saturday night and the start of Sunday. But after the early persistent

00:27wet weather, well actually it will turn much brighter. So it's not a complete wash out

00:31through the weekend. There will be sunny spells combined with frequent wintry showers. Like

00:36I say, a lot going on this weekend. But it's all down to one area of low pressure. Storm

00:43Jorge, named by the Spanish Met Service because of impacts likely across parts of Spain. It

00:49will also bring significant impacts to Ireland because of the wind and initially some wet

00:55weather Friday into the start of the weekend, especially across western parts of the UK.

01:00Now once these weather fronts are out of the way, the skies do brighten but the winds pick

01:05up Saturday afternoon. This squeeze on the isobars bringing strengthening winds, gales

01:09through Northern Ireland, Irish Sea coast, Southern Scotland, much of England and Wales

01:15Saturday night and into the start of Sunday. It will also drag in cold air but initially,

01:21well any snowfall really confined early Friday to north-east England, southern Scotland and

01:26then it's the wet weather that is of most concern Friday into the start of Saturday.

01:30Some very heavy rainfall, Northern Ireland, parts of western England as well as Wales

01:35and the rainfall once again as in previous episodes of wet weather, heaviest over western

01:41hills. 20-30mm widely across Northern Ireland, western parts of England as well as Wales

01:47and the risk of more than that over some higher ground and especially South Wales, an area

01:53of significant concern at the moment because of the already saturated conditions here.

02:00The worst of the rainfall moves through during Saturday morning and after that wet start

02:05across eastern parts of England, some heavy rainfall for a time. Skies do brighten, the

02:10sun comes through from the west but also we're going to see showers spreading in. So breathe

02:15in between systems and then some heavy downpours returning into much of Scotland, Northern

02:20Ireland, western parts of England as well as Wales and with cold air pushing in behind

02:24the early rainfall, we're expecting some snow out of these showers, mainly over the higher

02:29ground above around 300m or so but also some bright weather in between the showers. However,

02:35it will feel cold in that strengthening wind, temperatures by Saturday afternoon around

02:415-9c but on the wind significantly colder than that. That wind continues to strengthen

02:47during Saturday night, a swathe of gales pushing into Northern Ireland, Irish Sea coast, Cardigan

02:53Bay coast there as well as much of inland parts of England, Wales, southern Scotland.

02:5850mph gusts likely fairly widely, 60 or even 70 around some particularly exposed coasts

03:04and hills. A blustery start then to Sunday, that wind could cause impacts, yellow warnings

03:10in force for that but also we're going to see further showers, especially rain showers

03:16for southern parts of Wales, southern counties of England and further north for the rest

03:20of Wales into Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland we're likely to see some

03:24perhaps sleet and hail showers to relatively low levels, snow over the hills accumulating

03:29above around 300m. However, central and eastern England brightening up through Sunday, sunny

03:35spells predominantly and just one or two showers here. It will feel cold though again

03:40on Sunday with that brisk wind blowing, the wind moderating through the day but nevertheless

03:45if you're out in the wind it's not going to feel like 7-11c, it's going to feel much colder

03:50than that. So plenty to watch out for over the weekend and of course you can stay up

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Weekend weather – Jorge to bring rain then wind 27/02/20

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