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After a couple of increasingly windy and wet days (with further rain warnings in force) the weather looks like shifting as we head into December. Colder air heading south will bring drier and sunnier and frostier weather at the end of the week.

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00:00Hello. Welcome to your forecast for the rest of November from the Met Office.

00:04The end of the week should see something drier and a little bit colder, but for

00:09the next few days we do have to deal with further rain and there are warnings

00:12in force. It's also going to turn pretty gusty, especially through Tuesday and

00:16Wednesday and for a time on Thursday. But then, after that, it should be turning

00:22drier and brighter with some sunshine, but it will also be turning colder once

00:26more with the return of nighttime frosts. So that's how the week shapes up

00:30in summary. Let's put some detail on, take a look at the bigger picture. Why more

00:34rain over the next couple of days? Well, here's your answer. This area of low

00:38pressure, quite intense out in the Atlantic, a lot of isobars attached to

00:42that, so that will be bringing some stronger winds. But it's the rain

00:44initially that we're concerned about in the southwest, but the rain doesn't stop

00:48there. It then spreads across most of England, Wales, Northern Ireland by

00:52lunchtime on Tuesday and then into central and southern Scotland. Following

00:56on behind, it should brighten up a little on Tuesday afternoon. There'll be

00:59some bright or sunny spells, but there'll also be a whole host of showers coming

01:03into the south. Heavy, blustery, maybe even thundery showers at times. With the

01:08winds coming up from the south, though, it will be relatively mild, certainly

01:11compared to this time last week. Temperatures getting into the teens,

01:13still feeling pretty chilly under that rain band through central and southern

01:17Scotland. That low pressure then controls the weather through the middle of the

01:21week. It tends to weaken a little bit. It's not as intense, but could bring some

01:24very wet and windy weather to parts of Ireland. And on its southern flank, we'll

01:29see some gusty winds during Wednesday, so it could get very blustery along the

01:32south coast. Again, we have that rain warning in force over southwest England

01:36and South Wales. More rain falling onto very soggy ground. And also for Wednesday

01:41into Thursday, there's a warning in force over parts of northeast England. Again,

01:45more rain falling to areas that have seen a lot of rain recently. Won't rain

01:50everywhere all day around that area of low pressure. There'll be some brighter

01:54spells spiralling in as well. Temperatures, again, single figures. Most

01:58of Scotland's and the far north of England, further south, 11 or 12, but

02:02feeling colder because of the gusty winds, especially along the south coast

02:05and because of the rain as well. That low pressure is trying to pull away, though,

02:10on Wednesday night and into Thursday. Follow the ice bars, though, they point up

02:14to the north. That's why we're seeing the change to colder weather. Northern

02:19Ireland, Scotland's, we'll see that first on Thursday. But the rain should be

02:22pulling away. So it turns drier and brighter. That rain's still in evidence

02:26across a good part of England and Wales through the day. And temperatures will

02:30be just starting to fall away, eight, nine at best across the north and

02:34feeling colder because of the strength of the wind. The low continues to pull

02:38away. High pressure building in from Iceland. And between the two, the winds

02:41coming down from the north, bringing that colder air to all areas by the time

02:46we get to Friday and into the start of the weekend. So we'll see a return of

02:50widespread nighttime frosts by the end of the week. But we should also see the

02:55return of generally dry and bright weather. Now, those northerly winds will

02:59bring showers down the North Sea coast and particularly across northeast

03:02Scotland, where there'll be some snow on the hills. Nothing unusual about that.

03:06But for most, it's just a dry, bright, but cold feeling day with temperatures.

03:09Look at that. Six, seven degrees at best. Add that wind on, it'll feel a lot

03:13colder on the east coast. It stays cold into the start of the weekend. But will

03:19it last? An air of low pressure is trying to push in. This is a few days

03:22away, so it's quite uncertain about the track of this low. But it could bring a

03:26bit more wet weather across the south into Saturday. Just a possibility at

03:30this stage. But for many, the moment the weekend looks like certainly starting

03:35cold and frosty, but much of the weekend will be dry. As I said, that rain in

03:38the south is something we'll be keeping a close eye on, keeping you updated

03:42through the rest of this week. There are warnings in force. Make sure you stay

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Week Ahead – More rain, but then a change

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