Met Office Thursday evening weather forecast 05/12/2024

Met Office

05 December - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

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00:00Hi there, Storm Dhara arrives this weekend bringing a spell of very disruptive wind and

00:07rain.

00:08Now, the wind and rain overnight tonight isn't Storm Dhara but could also cause disruption

00:12as it sweeps through quickly.

00:14By late evening the heaviest of the rain has moved through.

00:17Winds stay strong for a time overnight, 50-60 mph wind gusts, but by the end of the night

00:24those winds are starting to ease as a ridge of higher pressure builds in and for many

00:28clear skies will lead to a chill in the air first thing Friday, mid-single figures in

00:33many places.

00:34There will also be a few showers, northern and western Scotland for example, one or two

00:38into Northern Ireland and north-west England, but away from the showers plenty of sunshine.

00:42Friday morning at least is a decent morning with plenty of sunshine and it stays dry and

00:49bright in the east throughout the day, but further west the rain sets in and this ahead

00:55of Storm Dhara is going to turn increasingly heavy through the afternoon for Northern

01:00Ireland, western Scotland, parts of western England and Wales.

01:03The winds will also be picking up at this stage with those winds developing widely and

01:09gales reaching many parts of the UK overnight.

01:13But as it turns windier it will also turn milder towards the south-west, 12C, whilst

01:17we keep the colder air further east.

01:21Now it's on Friday night that the worst of the weather moves in, Storm Dhara pushing

01:27in and moving across central parts of the UK bringing widespread gales and the risk

01:34in places of some very disruptive winds as it continues to deepen on its passage across

01:39the UK.

01:40One of the issues is that pressure will be building to the west as Storm Dhara clears

01:45through and that increases the pressure gradient or in other words it increases the number

01:52of isobars on the graphic there leading to strengthening winds as Storm Dhara moves through.

01:58Now the rain will fall as snow above 300m for Scotland but it will be heavy rain at

02:02lower levels across southern Scotland and Northern Ireland and then further spells of

02:06rain moving through western England and Wales as the night goes on and as Saturday begins.

02:13The winds will be picking up all night as well with those gales developing and so yeah

02:17it's not going to be quite as chilly but it's certainly going to be a noisy night for many

02:21of us with wet and windy weather moving through and affecting all parts by dawn.

02:28Disruptive conditions then on Saturday morning with the risk of increasing winds, widespread

02:34gales and spells of wet weather leading to localised flooding.

02:38The risk of 30mm widely across western parts of the UK especially for Wales and Northern

02:44Ireland where the rain totals could reach 60 or more millimetres so the risk of disruption

02:50from that and as the spells of rain move through the wind continues to strengthen so it's going

02:56to feel unpleasant basically on Saturday afternoon, highs of 8 or 9 Celsius.

03:02Here's the wind gusts in more detail as Storm Dhara moves through.

03:06You can see widely gusts of 60 miles an hour across Northern Ireland, much of England and

03:11Wales, southern and central as well as western Scotland but it's across parts of Northern

03:16Ireland, south-west Scotland, Wales and western England where the wind gusts could reach 70

03:21miles an hour inland, perhaps even 80 miles an hour or more around some exposed coasts

03:26that could cause significant disruption.

03:29Travel disruption, power cuts as well as damage to buildings and dangerous conditions around

03:33coasts with large waves as well as flying debris and that's why there's an amber warning

03:39in force for south-west Scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of Wales and western England

03:44with a broader yellow warning elsewhere across much of the UK.

03:47We'll keep you updated on all the latest warnings and forecasts and you can follow those updates

03:51on the Met Office YouTube channel or of course head to the website and the app for all the

03:55latest on the warnings.

03:56Bye bye.

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