Met Office Friday Afternoon Weather Forecast 20/12/2024

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Some showers about in Scotland, although drier for Northern Ireland this afternoon. A band of rain will move southeast over Wales and England this afternoon, clearing by the evening leaving cloud and scattered showers. Some clear skies about in central and eastern parts this evening until another band of rain moves in in the early hours tomorrow. Temperatures close to the average for the time of year.  - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 20/12/2024. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.

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00:00Hi there, I'm sure it will be a busy weekend with people moving about and as it happens

00:05the weather is turning increasingly unsettled. First band of rain moving through during Friday

00:11afternoon coinciding with the evening rush across the Midlands, eastern and southern

00:16England. That's accompanied by gusty winds but clearing skies for Scotland, Northern

00:22Ireland, Northern England and parts of Wales with showers following, the wind tending to

00:26ease as well. Colder air arriving into the North West but a milder afternoon there compared

00:32with Thursday afternoon in the South. Now the initial band of rain pushes through during

00:37the evening across East Anglia and the South East. It does clear then later in the evening

00:41with clear skies for a time across central and south eastern parts of the country but

00:45the next band of unsettled weather moves in by dawn. Wet and windy conditions for Scotland,

00:50Northern Ireland, Northern England as well as Wales. Some heavy bursts of rain first

00:55thing and an increasing wind. That means of course it's going to be a mild start to

01:00Saturday or at least frost free. A little colder there for the South and South East

01:05under clearer skies. Now for Saturday we've got this low moving in and tightly packed

01:10isobars particularly behind the cold front as it sweeps through. That means that actually

01:16the windiest weather will be after the main area of rains cleared. That rain pushing south

01:21quite soon during Saturday morning although it's going to linger across the south of England

01:27so some persistent rain continuing here into the afternoon. Elsewhere clearing skies so

01:32some brighter weather and frequent showers moving in. Those showers will be falling as

01:38rain, sleet and hill snow across Scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of Northern England

01:42by the end of the day because these are cold winds that are moving through and they're

01:46also increasing winds. So during the afternoon we can expect wind gusts of 50-60mph for the

01:52northern half of the UK around some exposed coasts of 70mph. But the strongest winds will

01:58be for the far north and north west of Scotland where coastal parts and hilly areas could

02:03experience wind gusts of 75-80mph. Enough to cause disruption, certainly ferry disruption

02:10for example and other issues as well, other impacts to do with winds. So a blustery old

02:17afternoon on Saturday with a mix of showers, feeling cold in the wind but also some brighter

02:24interludes as well. Now the colder air increasingly spreads across much of the country during

02:30Saturday night and that means that parts of Northern England and Wales could see some

02:35falling snow out of these showers by the start of Sunday but it does turn milder through

02:41Sunday. Sunday itself is going to be another windy day particularly in the west with once

02:46again wind gusts of 60mph in places.

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