Wednesday afternoon forecast 02/02/22

02 February - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there, there will be some breaks in the cloud, some sunshine for a few during the

00:05rest of the day but for most it is a cloudy picture, that cloud draping over the hills

00:10of northern parts of the UK and bringing some outbreaks of light rain and drizzle, some

00:16persistent wet weather for northern and western Scotland. The rain pushing into Shetland by

00:21the end of the afternoon, it's a warm front so it is bringing higher temperatures here

00:24but staying on the cold side in Shetland whilst the rest of the country sees well above our

00:29average temperatures and where we get some cloud breaks for the Midlands, for southern

00:34parts of England, 13 or even 14 Celsius is possible. And that means that overnight it

00:40will stay mild, the southwesterly breeze pulling in an awful lot of cloud, any cloud breaks

00:46fairly fleeting I think, for most it is a cloudy night and there will be some drizzly

00:51showers across western and southern parts of the UK, some more persistent and at times

00:55heavier rain for western Scotland but these are the temperatures overnight so frost free,

01:017 or 8 Celsius for the vast majority as we wake up on Thursday. It is a dull and damp

01:06start to the day for many further outbreaks of mainly light rain, mainly affecting western

01:11hills but one or two spots of rain elsewhere. Again the cloud will break in places especially

01:18for central and southern parts of the UK and it will turn increasingly breezy but that

01:23breeze coming from the southwest so it is bringing mild air, 12 or 13 Celsius possible

01:28in the south. However a change is on the way, it turns increasingly windy to the north and

01:32west of Scotland as heavy rain moves in by the end of the afternoon, some really quite

01:37lively gusts, 50, 60 mph wind gusts associated with this heavy rain and colder air following

01:43so that rain as it pushes in bringing some snow to the higher parts of Scotland as well

01:49as northern England, mainly above 300 metres or so and it is a transient feature, it moves

01:54through quickly so nothing too significant as far as snow cover is concerned. Wintry

01:59showers follow the rain as that front follows south during Thursday night and into the start

02:05of Friday. So a brief spell of lively winds and heavy rain pushing south east across the

02:11country, cold air following. We will have much more as always on social media. Bye bye.