Met Office Afternoon Forecast 04/12/2024 - limited sunshine - video Dailymotion

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Some sunny spells across central and eastern areas, but cloudier in the west with wet weather sweeping eastwards later. Very unsettled weather is arriving with an area of low pressure to the north of the UK, bringing wet and windy weather across the country.  This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 04/12/2024. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.

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00:00Hello, very good day to you. There's going to be quite a lot of weather to come as we

00:04go through the rest of this week. Earlier on today there was a ridge of high pressure

00:08across us so it was relatively quiet for a time. But if we look at the jet stream, it's

00:13very strong, very active and it's going to push across the UK and within the jet we could

00:17see speeds of around 250 miles per hour. So it's no real surprise that we're going to

00:22see some very unsettled weather arriving. Initially, an area of low pressure that's

00:27going to track somewhere to the north of the UK as we go through the end of today

00:31and overnight into tomorrow, bringing some very wet and windy weather to many parts for

00:34a time. Then another system comes through on Thursday, again bringing some heavy rain

00:39and strong winds. Ridge of high pressure on Friday may quieten things down for a period

00:44of time but for another feature arrives on Saturday. This could be a particularly deep

00:49area of low pressure. Still some uncertainty about how deep it's going to be, how intense

00:54and also the exact track how north or south it's going to push. And so as a result, uncertainty

01:00about the impacts but worth keeping up to date on this one because it could cause some

01:04problems. However, if we go back to this afternoon, some glimmers of sunshine, pretty weak sunshine

01:09at this time of year. But nonetheless, some of us seeing some bright blue skies, particularly

01:13towards central eastern areas. Further west, the cloud will be building and some wet and

01:18windy weather will be sweeping its way in initially across parts of Northern Ireland.

01:22Later on, as we go through the afternoon into western parts of Scotland and some outbreaks

01:26pushing into the far west of England and Wales as well. Staying drier towards the east, but

01:31here it is going to be pretty chilly. Temperatures struggling mid single figures in some places.

01:36Further west with the cloud, the rain, the wind, we are going to see some milder air.

01:40So temperatures are lifting a little bit here. Now, as we go through this evening and overnight,

01:45the heaviest rain is going to push its way across many parts of Scotland and perhaps

01:49the far north of England, too. It should rattle through relatively quickly, but nonetheless,

01:54we could see totals over higher ground building up around 30 to 40 millimetres, perhaps also

01:58some very strong winds towards the north northwest of Scotland. Gusts of around 65 to 70, perhaps

02:04a bit stronger than that in some exposed spots. Further south across England and Wales, the

02:08rain may actually take a little bit longer to push its way through. Perhaps won't be

02:12quite as intense as further north. But nonetheless, again, we could see some high rainfall totals

02:17building up overnight again over perhaps the Brecon Beacons, Dartmoor, other high ground,

02:22for example. We could also see 30 to 40 millimetres. And with the ground pretty saturated after

02:27the heavy rain that we had towards the end of November, we could see some localised issues.

02:32The rain clinging on in the southeast as we head towards the or through the early hours

02:37of tomorrow morning. And that rain also is going to do something quite interesting with

02:41our temperatures. A chilly start to the night for some of us. But as that rain pushes its

02:45way in, many of us are going to see our temperatures lifting through the night. So a relatively

02:49mild start for many of us first thing tomorrow morning. That rain in the southeast, though,

02:54through tomorrow, will clear away quite quickly. And then we are going to have something a

02:58bit dry. Yes, some showery outbreaks coming in from the west, but many places having some

03:03dry and perhaps brighter weather for a time before that next system that I mentioned earlier

03:08comes through as we go through Thursday afternoon. And this is likely to bring some heavy bursts

03:13of rain a bit more or less widespread compared to the feature coming through this evening

03:18and overnight. But where we see the rain, it could be pretty heavy. And with the ground

03:23being very saturated after the heavy rain just before it, this could cause some issues.

03:28So again, we could see some problems, some localised flooding where we see this heavy

03:32rain arriving. We are going to see our temperatures a little bit above average for the time of

03:37year as we go through tomorrow and the wind strengthening as well. So another warning

03:42in force across parts of northern England into a northern island as well due to the

03:48nature of this band of showery rain that's pushing its way through. We could have some

03:52very strong gusts and that could cause some problems as we go through later on this week.

03:56And yes, Friday does look like a quieter date for many of us. But then there's the potential

04:02for some very heavy rain and some strong winds as we go into the weekend. So definitely worth

04:06keeping up to date with that one. And then fairly strong signs of a more settled spell

04:12as we go towards the beginning of next week. We will, of course, be keeping you up to date

04:16with everything as we go through the next couple of days. But you'll definitely want

04:19to check out the 10 day trend with Anna later on. Bye bye.

Met Office Afternoon Forecast 04/12/2024 - limited sunshine

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