Thursday evening forecast 02/03/23

Met Office

02 March - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

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00:00Welcome to your national weather update.

00:02High pressure continues to dominate,

00:05but it is going to be turning colder.

00:07Here's the large area of high pressure,

00:09fairly cumbersome beast, only slowly moving.

00:12And around high pressure, the winds go clockwise.

00:14So feeding in quite a lot of cloud and moisture

00:17from the North Sea.

00:18And we've also seen a few showers

00:20coming into parts of southern Scotland, northern England,

00:23the odd one for the east of Northern Ireland.

00:25Still a few of those around through the evening,

00:27but tending to ease off.

00:28A lot of cloud across these eastern parts,

00:30but where we've got clear skies, of course,

00:32West Wales, southwest England, and a good chunk

00:35of northern Scotland, we are likely

00:37to see a frost with temperatures perhaps as low as minus six

00:40through some sheltered glens in Scotland.

00:42Where we've got the cloud, temperature's just about

00:44hovering above freezing for most,

00:46but still going to feel pretty cold on Friday morning,

00:49especially under the fairly gray skies.

00:52Most will have a dry day, but the cloud

00:54could be thick enough here and there over the Midlands,

00:56eastern England, for the odd light shower.

00:59A sunny day for a good part of Scotland,

01:01even the south and central belt should brighten up

01:03through the day.

01:04And I'm hopeful for some sunny spells

01:05to develop over eastern England, too.

01:07But it'll come and go, I think, any sunshine with cloud

01:11never too far away.

01:12And certainly for Wales and southern England,

01:14a much grayer day on Friday compared to Thursday.

01:17Across northern Scotland, the northern isles in particular,

01:20there will be a few showers drifting south

01:22on the brisk breeze.

01:24Elsewhere, the wind's fairly light.

01:26Temperatures around or a touch below average in the sunshine

01:30with light winds shouldn't feel too bad.

01:32But stuck under the cloud, I suspect 7 or 8 Celsius

01:35might feel quite cold.

01:37During Friday evening, not a great deal of change.

01:39We may see a few more breaks in the cloud over the Midlands,

01:42northern and eastern England.

01:43And wherever we've got clear skies,

01:45that is going to allow a frost to form once more.

01:48So again, turning pretty chilly into Saturday morning.

01:51And the northerly wind's getting going as well.

01:54A few more of those showers drifting into northeast

01:56Scotland during Saturday.

01:58A small chance of one or two of them

02:00grazing the east coast of England by the end of the day.

02:02With a brisk breeze blowing here again,

02:04going to feel pretty cold where it stays gray.

02:07But with a bit of sunshine, temperatures

02:09could get to 8 or 9 Celsius in southwest Scotland.

02:12But generally turning colder as we go through the weekend.

02:15That line of showers is a weak weather front.

02:19But it's a cold weather front.

02:20So although it's not producing much rain,

02:22it is going to introduce colder air as the high pressure

02:26finally slinks away.

02:28Northerly winds, not especially strong,

02:31but introducing colder and colder air.

02:34So a much chillier feel through this weekend,

02:36particularly where it is breezy across northern and eastern

02:40parts during Sunday.

02:42Colder feel with temperatures around or touch below average.

02:44But it may well get colder still as the northerly winds

02:48bring colder air in through Monday and especially Tuesday.

02:51And as these weather fronts and low pressure

02:53may introduce more moisture, that

02:55does increase the chance of some snow

02:58as we go through next week.

02:59Too early to say exactly where, exactly how much.

03:02This is Tuesday of next week.

03:04But increasing chance of some wintry weather with frost, ice,

03:08and yes, some snow on the card.

03:10So stay up to date with the forecast.

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