Met Office Monday evening weather forecast 16/12/2024

Met Office

16 December - National weather forecast presented by Alex Burkill.

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00:00Hello again. It's been a dry day for many of us away from the far north of Scotland

00:05here. It's been a much wetter story because we've had a front lying here and that's brought

00:10some heavy persistent rain with totals building up. That front's going to continue to sit

00:15over northern Scotland for a little while yet, but that rain will be easing as we go

00:19overnight into Tuesday. Otherwise, across many parts of the country, a dry day and a

00:24largely dry night. A few spots of rain here or there, but also some clear skies across

00:29central and eastern parts in particular, although the cloud is going to be building as we go

00:33through the early hours of Tuesday morning. With the cloud building, there's the risk

00:37of some low cloud developing, particularly across southern parts. This could bring some

00:41murkiness, some hill fog, and there will be a few spots of rain as well, particularly

00:45across western parts of Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland. Here we'll have some wetter

00:49weather starting to push its way in as we head towards dawn. With all the cloud and

00:53some mild air across us at the moment, temperatures not really dropping a huge amount overnight,

00:58a pretty mild start to the day on Tuesday morning for many of us, but with that, a blustery

01:04start and we're actually going to see the wind strengthening through the day. If we

01:07take a closer look at that, and we have a low pressure system coming through, and here

01:11are our gusts. You can see around exposed coastal parts of western UK and later on across

01:16northern parts as we go overnight into Wednesday, there's a risk of gales in those coastal areas

01:21in particular, but even inland it is going to turn quite blustery. By the time we get

01:26to Wednesday itself, the strongest winds will really be for the northern isles where

01:29it could be pretty windy indeed. If we look at the details though for Tuesday, and like

01:34I said, a bit of a wet start across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, that rain

01:38becoming more widespread through the morning could be quite heavy at times too, so some

01:42heavy rain to go alongside those blustery winds for some parts. Across the rest of the

01:47country, across central southern parts of England and Wales in particular, and especially

01:51towards the east, actually staying largely dry here and there should be some breaks in

01:55the cloud. Perhaps a bit cloudier than on Monday, but nonetheless some sunshine at

02:00times, and it's a bit further west that we'll start to see some outbreaks of rain pushing

02:04its way in as we go through into the latter stages of the day. The winds will be picking

02:10up and so the winds will make it feel colder than these temperatures suggest, but they

02:14are a little bit above average for the time of year, or a fair bit above average for some

02:19places. So a mild day, albeit a blustery or windy day with some wet weather towards the

02:24north and west in particular. That rain then in the northwest becomes more widespread as

02:29we go through Tuesday evening and overnight. So, although it will be a dry day towards

02:33the southeast, it will turn damp or wet at times as we go into Wednesday morning. So

02:38a pretty wet blustery night to come, and with that then temperatures again not dropping

02:43a huge amount at all. In fact, many places are staying in the high single figures or

02:47low double digits, so a very mild start to the day, albeit a rather unsettled one. As

02:53we go through Wednesday itself then, a lot of cloud, a lot of outbreaks of rain, not

02:58especially heavy, but some wet weather to be had, and those blustery winds, like I said,

03:02becoming confined largely just to the far north. A lot of that clears away for a time,

03:06but then we have another system coming in later on Wednesday and that's going to bring

03:10some heavier, more persistent rain from the southwest as we go through later Wednesday

03:14into Thursday. But temperatures on Wednesday are actually going to be even higher than

03:20through the start of this week, rising as some even milder air gets dragged in. So mid-teens

03:25for quite a few places, albeit towards the north, will start to see our temperatures

03:29dropping as we go through the day as some colder air starts to make its way in. As we

03:33look further ahead through the rest of the week, and yes, we have this wet weather that's

03:37going to push its way across central southern parts, could see some high totals, could see

03:41some issues as we go through Thursday. But that then clears away, a ridge of high pressure

03:45quietens things down for a short period of time before another front pushes its way through

03:49as we go through Friday. With that, we are going to see our temperatures dropping quite

03:54markedly as we go towards the end of the week. And so it is going to be much colder by Thursday

03:58or Friday than it is at the moment. For more information about that, check out our week

04:03ahead video. Otherwise, I'll see you again soon. Bye bye.

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