Weekend weather – How’s the long weekend looking? 02/05/19 - video Dailymotion

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A cool feel this weekend with northerly winds and overnight frosts. A few showers are likely, mostly in eastern area on Saturday and Monday, but large parts of the UK will be dry. There will be some sunshine too.

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00:00Welcome along to your bank holiday weekend forecast from the Met Office.

00:04Only a couple of weeks since the last bank holiday, which was all about the

00:07sunshine and the warmth. This weekend, well, will feel very different. It is

00:13going to be chilly, especially so in the mornings. Gardeners take note the

00:17likelihood of morning frost. It's not going to rain all weekend, though. Far

00:20from it. Largely dry, in fact, in many areas, with at times some sunshine. There

00:26will still be some showers, however. Why is it going to be on the chilly side?

00:30Well, if we take a look at the big picture, you can see why. Low pressure

00:33over Scandinavia, high pressure over Iceland, and between the two, the winds

00:37coming down from the north. And those northerly winds bringing the Arctic air

00:41during Friday night and into Saturday. A couple of weather fronts will also

00:45bring bands of showers southwards, and that cold wind will be especially

00:50noticeable on these North Sea coasts. And there'll be lots of showers coming in

00:54here on Saturday. Could be heavy, could be thundery, too. Early on, could easily

00:58see some sleet and snow in the showers over northeast Scotland to lower levels.

01:02And through the day, there could be some snow over the hills in the showers down

01:06across the Pennines, say. But as you can see, it's not going to rain everywhere.

01:10Far from it. The showers will come and go in the east and many western areas,

01:13looking dry and bright, with some sunshine coming through. There will be

01:17that northerly breeze, though, and if you're out in that, it will feel cold.

01:21Temperatures could struggle on some coasts, single figures at best. Inland, we

01:25may just about clamber into the teens. Out of the breeze, get in the sunshine,

01:30well, it'll feel OK. But it is going to be cold on Saturday night. If you're

01:33heading out, high pressure is trying to move in there. So by the time we get to

01:37Sunday, the winds are easing a little bit, and there's not as many showers

01:41around. So for many, Sunday looks dry. Again, there is a weather front across

01:45the far north, bringing a strong wind and some showers across northern

01:49Scotland. This is how we start the day on Sunday. These are the temperatures in

01:53towns and cities. Rural spots, well, we could be down to minus two, minus three

01:58in some places on Sunday morning. So yes, gardeners take note, there will be a

02:02frost in the countryside, and it will be a fine day for many, but it will be on

02:06the chilly side. Some showery rain heading into northern Scotland from that

02:10weather front. Maybe the odd shower elsewhere, but for many, it'll be dry.

02:13Some cloud will bubble up through the day, but we should still see some bright

02:17weather and some sunny spells. And a bit of sunshine will lift those temperatures

02:21again after that cold start up into the low teens, perhaps in the south. Again, if

02:27you're exposed to that wind, it will feel cold on some coasts. The high pressure is

02:32still there by the time we get into Bank Holiday Monday, but another weather

02:35front is drifting its way southwards. And again, those isobars are reasonably

02:40close together across the far northeast, so a cold wind blowing here. Elsewhere,

02:44the wind's reasonably light. Again, we could start with a touch of frost, and there'll be a

02:48band of showers pushing their way southwards. Fairly cloudy again by the

02:53afternoon, but we should still see some sunny spells in the morning and later on

02:58in the day. And again, for most, it will be dry across the south, where

03:02temperatures could just about climb into the teens. So a mixed picture this

03:06weekend. It will certainly be a lot colder than last weekend. Make sure you

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Weekend weather – How’s the long weekend looking? 02/05/19

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