Friday Evening Forecast 17/11/23

Met Office

17 November - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

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00:00Thanks for joining me for this latest update from the Met Office. More wet

00:04weather is sweeping its way in across the UK. There'll be plenty more showers to

00:08come through the weekend. Here's the reason why. A whopper of an area of low

00:13pressure sitting out in the Atlantic but it is slowly drifting towards us and its

00:17weather fronts are moving across us right now bringing a spell of persistent

00:21rain. It should clear through on Saturday morning but the low continues to

00:24dominate and around it we'll see bands of showers drifting in during the

00:29course of Sunday. Let's rewind and come back to these weather fronts bringing

00:34rain in through the evening time to Northern Ireland, Wales and southwest

00:38England. Met Office yellow warning for rain in place for parts of southeast

00:42Northern Ireland and then from midnight over Wales and southwest England. A lot

00:45of spray and surface water on the roads here but it doesn't stop there. Most

00:49places turning soggy by the time we get to Saturday morning. It'll also be

00:53turning quite windy as the breeze picks up as that rain moves in but that breeze

00:58will also be bringing milder air so temperatures will actually tend to rise

01:02through the night before the rain arrives. Could see some frost across

01:05northern Scotland but these are the numbers by dawn in the south double

01:08digits. Some areas may start the weekend in the teens but we're certainly going to

01:12start with wet weather over southwest England and south Wales. As I said a lot

01:16of spray and surface water on the roads here. Not very pleasant parts of the M4 and

01:20the M5. The heavier rain will work from west to east quite quickly through the

01:25morning and actually many places after a damp start should turn brighter.

01:30Certainly across Wales, western England and the Midlands even before lunchtime

01:33it should start to cheer up. The rain may linger in East Anglia and Kent well into

01:38the afternoon and there'll be more showers coming into western Scotland and

01:41Northern Ireland through the day but for a good chunk of the country it will

01:45brighten up after that damp start. It will stay fairly breezy however some

01:49gusty conditions particularly over Shetland where it stays damp and cold.

01:53Single figures here and parts of northern Scotland may stick in single

01:56digits but for most places that mild array will be noticeable. I think if it

02:01brightens up 13, 14 maybe even 15 or 16 in one or two locations. During Saturday

02:07evening we'll continue to see the rain clearing away from East Anglia and Kent

02:11but it does linger in Shetland and then just more showers coming in. That low

02:15pressure is now getting closer and closer. It's just sending the showers in

02:18from the Atlantic and that'll be the case as we head into Sunday with a gusty

02:23wind in the south. The winds will be stronger in the south during the course

02:27of Sunday. A lot of cloud around, bands of showers moving in. It won't rain all day

02:30there'll be some drier and brighter interludes and probably not too many

02:34showers in eastern Scotland. Decent chance here of some sunny spells but for

02:38many as I say a lot of cloud, showers on and off through the day blown along by a

02:42gusty wind across the south and that will temper the temperatures. They will

02:47be on the mild side for the time of year but it will feel cooler because of the

02:51strength of the wind. If you're after something a little drier well into next

02:55week it looks like high pressure could start to move in and that should settle

02:59the weather down at least for a while. For more on that make sure you hit

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