Met Office Monday Morning Weather Forecast 23/12/2024

23 December - national forecast presented by Marco Petagna

Transcript

00:00Hello, here's your latest weather update from the Met Office. I'm Marco Petania. We've seen

00:04a cold and chilly north-westerly airstream across the UK over the course of the weekend.

00:08But things are starting to turn milder from the west now. Notice the yellows and orange

00:12temperature contours moving in from the west over the next few days. A south-westerly airstream

00:16introducing much higher temperatures into the Christmas period.

00:19Looking at things in more detail for today now though, after a chilly start across the

00:23south and east, it's mostly fine today. Plenty of sunshine certainly this morning, but more

00:27clouds starting to move in from the west during the course of the afternoon. That cloud though

00:30always thick enough out towards the north and west of the UK to give some outbreaks

00:34of rain. That rain turning heavier and more persistent, more widespread in fact into the

00:38afternoon and a few heavy bursts affecting Northern Ireland for a time, moving in across

00:42Irish Sea areas during the course of the afternoon.

00:45The breeze starts to pick up again after easing during the first part of the day and temperatures

00:49still quite chilly towards the south and east of the UK, peaking this afternoon at around

00:534 to 6 Celsius, that's still a few degrees below the seasonal average. It was out towards

00:58the west and north-west that rain introduced in much milder air, so by the end of the day

01:01temperatures here up to 9 or 10 Celsius, 10 down towards Plymouth there, it's 50 in Fahrenheit

01:06and a few degrees above the seasonal average.

01:10As we head into the evening and through the overnight period, the cloud and outbreaks

01:13of rain across those western and northern areas makes inroads across other parts of

01:17the UK, so we head into a pretty murky night into Christmas Eve morning. Lots of low cloud

01:22around, some hill fog in places, bits and pieces of rain and drizzle, the rain most

01:25widespread towards the north-west of the UK, but given the cloud, a bit of a breeze too,

01:30it's much milder than in recent nights, a generally frost-free night in fact, with temperatures

01:34generally holding up into the low, mid, locally even upper single figures.

01:38As for Christmas Eve itself, well they're pretty grey days in store I'm afraid, lots

01:41of low cloud around, given some hill fog in places too, bits and pieces of rain and drizzle,

01:46mainly though reserved for the north-west of the UK, one or two heavy bursts across

01:49the west of Scotland. Elsewhere, we could see the odd chink of brightness, but on the

01:52whole, as I say, there will be a lot of cloud around. Given that south-westerly breeze though,

01:56a much milder day than in recent days, temperatures widely in double figures, peaking in the afternoon

02:01at 12 to 13 Celsius, 13 out towards the west for example there, 55 in Fahrenheit and well

02:06above the seasonal average.

02:08We hold onto a lot of cloud though going through the rest of the Christmas period, the cloud

02:11thick enough in places to give the odd spot of drizzle, rain though mainly reserved for

02:16the north-west of the UK, and wherever you are, those temperatures stay above the seasonal

02:19average with plenty of frost-free weather in store.

02:22That's pretty much it from me, but of course you can keep tuned to The Metaphysics Forecast

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02:31take care and have a happy Christmas. Bye bye for now.