Met Office Afternoon Weather Forecast 23/12/2024 - Rain into the north and west - video Dailymotion

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A warm front bringing cloud and outbreaks of rain to Scotland, western England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This slowly moving southeastwards but conditions staying mostly dry towards the southeast. Feeling chilly across eastern areas, and milder further west. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 23/12/2024. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern

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00:00Hi there. Here at the Met Office we've been talking about a mild rather than white Christmas

00:05for some time. Despite the fact that it was a cold weekend in many places and some areas

00:11saw snow, the cold air that has arrived through the weekend is now on its way out as this

00:17very large area of mild but gloomy weather arrives during the rest of Monday and it's

00:23here to stay until after Christmas. The warm front moving into western parts will bring

00:28drizzly rain to Scotland, much of western England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Some

00:33heavier bursts from time to time but mostly this is light and patchy rain and it's slowly

00:40progressing eastwards across the country. So staying mostly dry in the east and as the

00:45cloud builds it's going to still feel chilly in the east of the UK, 6 or 7 Celsius. The

00:51milder air confined for the time being to western areas, 11 or 12 Celsius for western

00:56England and Northern Ireland. That milder air is going to spread nationwide though

01:02overnight so actually the coldest air overnight will be at the start of the night and it progressively

01:08turns milder as the night continues. After dark the cloud just thickens, it lowers a

01:15lot of hill fog, some gloom by the start of Christmas Eve and those relatively high temperatures

01:24for the time of year, we're talking about double figures widely certainly across northern

01:28and western UK as the wind picks up but still 8 or 9 Celsius towards the southeast so the

01:35same kinds of temperatures that we'll have seen through the day. It is again a damp start

01:40to the day for much of Wales, northern England, much of Scotland and Northern Ireland although

01:45the rain to the south generally petering out first thing Christmas Eve and it's going to

01:51be increasingly northwestern parts that see the damp weather on Christmas Eve itself.

01:56Drier towards the south but still a lot of low cloud covering the hills of western UK,

02:01some drizzle over the hills and coasts, hill fog, mist and murk. A few cloud breaks here

02:07and there but on the whole it's a grey day and a remarkably mild day for the time of

02:13year. Certainly for Christmas Eve we could see temperatures of 14 or 15 Celsius in one

02:20or two of the milder spots and actually it's towards the north where we're going to see

02:24the mildest air because that's where the southwesterly wind will be strongest and it will continue

02:29to strengthen during Christmas Eve night, heading into the big day itself. Across northern

02:36parts of the UK 40 to 50 mph wind gusts are possible for Christmas nights. Further south

02:43it's lighter winds, one or two cloud breaks but where that happens we could see some mist

02:47patches forming and a lot of low cloud once again so that cloud covering the hills of

02:52the west bringing some patchy drizzle and hill fog but the more persistent and heavier

02:57rain tending to have fizzled out by this stage. Now we head into Christmas Day and it's more

03:03of the same. It's a grey start to the day but it is a mild start with temperatures widely

03:099 to 12 Celsius. Outbreaks of rain and a strong wind for the northwest of Scotland in particular

03:17and that rain really accumulating over the next few days, 40, 50 mm in places. But it's

03:23drier to the south, actually for many it is a dry Christmas Day. There'll be some glimmers

03:29of brightness coming through across central and eastern parts of the UK but on the whole

03:33it is a cloudy one. Nevertheless with lighter winds in the south and mostly dry, it's not

03:39looking too bad for a Christmas Day afternoon walk. The wet and windy weather largely affecting

03:46northwest Scotland at this stage but it is going to be breezy generally across northern

03:50parts of the country. And another mild one, not quite as mild as Christmas Eve but still

03:5511 to 12 Celsius from the top to the tail of the country. So yeah, it's turning mild,

04:03it's turning windy, it's turning grey but actually there'll be some dry weather around

04:08for Christmas Day and into Boxing Day certainly away from the far northwest. Bye bye.

Met Office Afternoon Weather Forecast 23/12/2024 - Rain into the north and west

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