Met Office Thursday Afternoon Forecast 24/10/24

24 October - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there, blue skies for some this afternoon but for many skies will look a little more

00:05like this as the cloud slowly builds towards the west ahead of this frontal system which

00:11is slowing down. It was a cold front but now a circulation is forming and that slows it

00:16down and turns the cold front into a warm front on this part as it pushes back west

00:22for a time as well. And along that area as the circulation develops the rain will turn

00:27heavy but actually it avoids most of the UK. Throughout the afternoon just some spells

00:32of mostly light to moderate rain for the Outer Hebrides for example, a few spots in the

00:36west where the cloud is thick enough but in the east that's where we see the best of

00:40the sunshine. Eastern England temperatures of 16 to 18 Celsius with a mild southerly

00:46airflow for many. 16, 17 also possible for some sheltered parts of northern Scotland

00:52as the air dries out and warms up over its passage across the hills. Into the evening

00:58and it slowly starts to turn wetter. Showers at first for the southwest and Wales turning

01:04to longer spells of rain and then Northern Ireland sees those spells of rain mostly after

01:09midnight. Some heavy rain at times can cause some issues in one or two spots by dawn but

01:15in the east it stays dry albeit increasingly gloomy as the cloud thickens and then lowers

01:21some hill fog and mist about first thing across central and eastern parts of the country.

01:25Some sunshine for eastern Scotland there but actually for many parts it's grey skies from

01:30the word go. Outbreaks of rain fizzling away across Northern Ireland and the rain tending

01:35to progress north-eastwards albeit slowly across Wales, the Midlands as well. Some heavy

01:41showers potentially in the southeast by the afternoon. Also some blustery showers as the

01:45wind picks up in the southwest and west Wales but with some brighter spells in between.

01:50Not quite as mild but still temperatures around the mid-teens for many. Some cloud

01:55breaks for western Scotland and increasingly so in the south as cloud and patchy rain moves

02:01its way northwards on Friday night. And by the start of Saturday that means there will

02:05be some mist and fog across central and southern parts of the country but it will clear through

02:10the morning. We'll still see some blustery showers in the far southwest but the main

02:15area of rain, well that returns to western Scotland again relatively slowly through the

02:22afternoon as well as parts of Northern Ireland. Some sunshine elsewhere so a fine day for

02:26many with highs of 14 or 15 Celsius and then further rain or showers into Sunday especially

02:33once again in the northwest.