Met Office Wednesday Evening Forecast 20/03/2024

Met Office

20 March - National weather forecast presented by Clare Nasir

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00:00Hello there, welcome to your Wednesday evening weather update from the Met Office.

00:06Wind and rain over the next 24 hours across the northern half of the UK, mild for many

00:11before the air turns colder from the northwest.

00:14The wind will be a real feature of the weather through Thursday with gales across the far

00:18north as this rain which will be persistent towards the west fades away as it extends

00:24down towards southern areas through the latter part of Thursday and into Friday.

00:29For the time being, Wednesday evening, watch out for some showery bursts across the Midlands,

00:33East Anglia.

00:34It will tend to clear down towards the southeast but murky conditions overnight even with some

00:39fog patches.

00:40Watch out for an early frost, localised frost at that, across Scotland before the cloud

00:44thickens across western Scotland and Northern Ireland.

00:48Rain after midnight here which will become persistent through the early hours of the

00:51morning as those winds pick up and we could even see gale force winds across the far northwest.

00:56A chilly start to the day across eastern parts of Scotland, even further south.

01:00We could see temperatures a bit lower than what they have been, even so, despite the

01:04murk across more southern areas, the cloud will break allowing for some brighter weather

01:08through the morning into the afternoon.

01:10A wet and windy start across northern and western Scotland, even some rain just extending

01:15towards Aberdeenshire through the morning.

01:18Some heavier pulses of rain for Northern Ireland will extend across the Isle of Man to Cumbria

01:23as we head through Thursday morning and even a little rain further south for the likes

01:27of Lancashire, Liverpool Bay for a time and then Northumberland, Tyne and Wear.

01:32But things will tend to dry up here, certainly some brighter skies further south as that

01:36rain slips down towards southern Scotland as well as Northern Ireland and Northern England

01:41through the afternoon.

01:42This is the cold front and this cold front has with it some strong winds associated with

01:47it, certainly towards the far northwest.

01:49It's a blustery end to the day with some strong gusts in excess of 55mph across the

01:53far north and also those showers.

01:56Through Friday you can see the rain just clearing towards the low countries, strong winds across

02:02the north there, cold air, you'll notice the difference particularly in that strong wind

02:07and frequent showers which will be wintry above around 400m across the north.

02:13This low pressure system then moves down towards the North Sea through Sunday so fewer showers

02:18towards the west to end the weekend but still some showery bursts further east.

02:23So let's take a look at the detail on Thursday evening.

02:26Here's that cold front, as you can see it clears Northern Ireland through the latter

02:30part of the evening as well as southern Scotland but a wet evening to come across Northern

02:35England as well as Wales.

02:37The rain comes and goes as the cloud thickens ahead of it.

02:40These showers will be frequent across Scotland as well as Northern Ireland, particularly

02:44towards the west and again strong and blustery winds here, gusty over the highlands with

02:51some clearer skies and temperatures dipping down to around 2-5 degrees Celsius across

02:55Scotland and Northern Ireland.

02:57We hang on to around 8, 9, 10 across much of England and Wales but a bit of a chilly

03:02start to the day with some clear skies across Northumberland, Cumbria, Lancashire, North

03:06Yorkshire.

03:07Through the morning some brighter weather emerges across Wales as well as Northern England.

03:11We hang on to that cloud and some rain across southern counties and those showers will

03:16be relentless across the north with the risk of thunder as well as hail, snow as I said

03:20above around 400 metres.

03:22A few showers extend down towards Northern England as we head through the afternoon.

03:26Some brighter skies still coming through but the winds will be very strong across the far

03:30north of Scotland and temperatures struggling, only 6, 7, 8 degrees Celsius for Scotland

03:35through the afternoon on Friday, 8 or 9 for Northern Ireland at double digits across England

03:40and Wales with some sunshine to end the day.

03:43And then it's sunshine and showers through the weekend and some of these will be blustery

03:46and heavy and it will be rather chilly.

03:48I'll see you later.

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