Saturday morning forecast 22/01/22

Met Office

22 January - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

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00:00Hello, welcome to your latest updates from the Met Office.

00:03This weekend's kind of can be summed up

00:05as dry, but rather drab.

00:07Lots of cloud across the country, but not much rain,

00:10thanks to this chunky area of high pressure.

00:13It's been ambling in from the West,

00:15and it's here to stay, sticking around throughout the weekend

00:20and beyond.

00:21At times, weak weather fronts will

00:23affect the far Northwest, and the isobars squidging together

00:26here as well.

00:27So it's going to be breezy, getting particularly

00:29gusty across the far North later on Sunday.

00:31But for most, under this area of high pressure,

00:33the winds will be light.

00:35But there is going to be quite a lot of cloud around.

00:38Certainly, more cloud on Friday nights

00:39will mean it's not as cold.

00:42Yes, we'll see some breaks in the cloud.

00:43Of course, the eastern pockets of frost are still possible.

00:46But for most, we will be staying above freezing,

00:50thanks to that cloud.

00:51The thick cloud in the Northwest,

00:52still bringing a bit of drizzly rain

00:54to the Highlands and the Western Isles.

00:56Quite breezy here as well, so that

00:57will keep the temperatures up here, 7 or 8 degrees.

01:00Most towns and cities, 2 or 3 degrees Celsius.

01:03But as I said, some pockets of frost

01:05are still possible where the skies do stay clear.

01:09And of course, where the skies stay clear,

01:11should lead to some sunshine on Saturday morning.

01:13But that's going to be in short supply.

01:14For most, it's going to be a grey start.

01:16It'll be eastern England, northeast Scotland,

01:18and perhaps parts of the south that

01:20do see some breaks in the cloud and a bit of sunshine.

01:23Whereas the hills of Northwest England,

01:25and certainly across the Highlands and Argyll and Bute,

01:28there will be outbreaks of rain and drizzle.

01:30The far north of Scotland may brighten up, actually,

01:33later in the day.

01:33And it's here, Caithness, Sutherland,

01:35down to the Moray coastline, where

01:37we'll see the top temperatures, 10, 11, maybe 12 Celsius.

01:41Elsewhere, we're looking at 8 or 9 degrees,

01:43a little bit warmer than Friday.

01:45But of course, you won't have as much sunshine, certainly not

01:48across the south and the east.

01:50So fairly gloomy skies persisting

01:52through a Saturday afternoon, and not much

01:54changing through Saturday evening.

01:56The rain may tend to peter out for a time

01:58across the northwest.

01:59And elsewhere, it just stays dry and cloudy

02:02as we head into Sunday.

02:03Similar story, then, there will be some breaks

02:05in the cloud on Sunday, so a bit of sunshine

02:07possible for parts of Wales, northeast England,

02:10again, northeast Scotland, but the Highlands,

02:13the Western Isles continuing to see a bit of drizzle.

02:15And as I said at the start, that wind

02:17starting to strengthen further here.

02:19It's going to be a breezy weekend,

02:20but gets very gusty by the end of Sunday.

02:23Elsewhere, the winds are light, some temperatures again,

02:25probably just about getting up to 7, 8, or 9 Celsius.

02:29A little higher if we do see any spells of sunshine

02:32coming through.

02:34As for the outlook, well, high pressure remains in charge.

02:37So even well into next week, it looks like largely dry

02:40conditions will persist.

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