Met Office Thursday Afternoon Weather Forecast 31/10/24

31 October - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there. We are currently in a period of benign and slow-moving weather patterns. One

00:06exception will be the north and north-west of Scotland where it's turning more unsettled

00:11through the rest of the day. Outbreaks of rain, persistent rain into Shetland, that

00:16will be heavy at times, especially later on, and increasingly damp for the north-west of

00:21Scotland with a lot of low cloud and a strong wind. Gales for Shetland, 50 mph wind gusts

00:27for the far north. Otherwise, for much of the country, it's a grey day. We started with

00:31fog in eastern parts in particular. That will slowly lift, but it's going to stay relatively

00:37overcast for the vast majority. Some cloud breaks towards the south-west, perhaps parts

00:41of Wales. More reliably, eastern Scotland and north-east England as the cloud breaks

00:46up over higher ground to the west. The wind bouncing over the hills though, so a gusty

00:51wind there for the north-east. And then into the evening, well, rain comes south, but for

00:57much of the country, it's dry if you're heading out trick-or-treating with little ones. It's

01:01good to be mild as well overnight, 11 or 12 Celsius the low in the south. I think a little

01:07lower than that if we do get some clear spells, especially towards the south-west, for example

01:13a few mist patches first thing. But it's going to be much more unsettled as we begin Friday

01:18for the far north. And the band of rain by this stage is slowly pushing south into central

01:23Scotland, weakening, leaving brighter skies for the northern isles, albeit with a few

01:28showers and a colder feel. Further south, any mist and fog lifting and it's another

01:34largely grey day with a sheet of clouds sticking around and just a few random cloud breaks

01:39here and there. 13, 14 Celsius in the south, into the single figures there for the far

01:45north, so a colder feel as northerly winds arrive. But those northerlies don't last long.

01:49We've got higher pressure building back in from the south-west and that's going to help

01:54fizzle out the front as it pushes south into central Scotland. A damp day, or a damp end

02:01to the day at least for Edinburgh, for the south-east of Scotland. But that front, well

02:06it disappears then as higher pressure builds in on top of it, that higher pressure allowing

02:11milder air to push north once again into the weekend. But, although it stays dry, it's

02:17going to stay largely cloudy once again for the vast majority. Bye bye.