Met Office Saturday Morning Weather Forecast 21/12/24

21 December - national forecast presented by Amy Bokota

Transcript

00:00Hello, and very good morning to you. A very blustery weekend of weather ahead for this

00:04busy travel weekend before Christmas. And that's all thanks to this area of low pressure

00:09arriving into the early hours of Saturday. A squeeze on those isobars on the southern

00:13flank of that, giving a particularly windy day through Saturday and widely across the

00:17UK through Sunday as well, before that slowly begins to move away and we start to see some

00:21calmer conditions in towards the start of Monday. Back to this morning though. So a

00:26fairly wet start to the day for much of the UK. Got this cold front sinking southeast

00:30and in that cooler air, we do have those winds strengthening. So we have a yellow wind warning

00:35in force through Saturday morning, right the way through the day. And that's for the northern

00:39half of the country, widely expecting to see winds around 50 to 60 miles per hour. Across

00:44the very far north of Scotland, they will be a touch stronger, could see 80 miles per

00:48hour on some exposed coasts. And with that, it could lead to some travel disruptions.

00:51So please do make sure that you plan your travels accordingly. Temperatures are going

00:57to be a bit milder across the south, 11 to 13 degrees, still fairly damp across the very

01:02far southern half of UK, holding on some rain into the afternoon as well. Elsewhere, it's

01:06going to be fairly frequent blustery showers and perhaps a touch of hill snow and temperatures

01:11in the single figures across Scotland through the rest of Saturday. Then it's going to be

01:15holding on to that windy picture, blustery showers moving across the rest of the UK,

01:19rain clearing to the south of England as we head into the early hours of Sunday and

01:24frequent blustery showers covering the rest of the UK. And on Sunday morning, you're going

01:28to be particularly cool and they could see some hill snow for parts of Northern Ireland,

01:33Northern Wales and Northern England and parts of Scotland in the early hours of Sunday.

01:39Temperatures during the morning on Sunday, around two to three degrees across the northern

01:43half of UK, a touch milder across the south. But again, with that wind, not expecting to

01:47see any frost moving through the rest of Sunday, then further blustery showers across

01:53the UK. They do start to ease as we head later on through the morning. And those wintry nature

01:59to those showers do become restricted to Scotland by the time we head in towards the afternoon.

02:03A few brighter spells, but it will be widely windy through the day on Sunday for many places,

02:08expecting to see winds up around 50 to 60 miles per hour. So temperatures generally

02:13around seven to nine degrees across the UK on Sunday. But with that wind, it's not going

02:18to be feeling too pleasant. We've got the wind chill on here and you can see with that

02:23wind temperature is going to be feeling more like zero to two degrees. So certainly a very

02:28chilly feel on Sunday. Winds do begin to ease as we head through Sunday evening, but we

02:34do have some further mild and windy weather on Monday before things turn a little bit

02:38calmer over Christmas. If you want to check out any more on our weather, please do have

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