Met Office Tuesday Morning Weather Forecast 24/12/2024

24 December - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

Transcript

00:00Hi there. During the last 24 hours we've seen a warm front to bring a lot of cloud, but

00:05also much, much milder weather in time for Christmas. So we're now in the weather pattern

00:11we've been talking about for a while that is going to affect the whole of the UK for

00:16Christmas Day and Christmas Eve. It's just going to stay cloudy, a lot of low cloud covering

00:22the hills of the west, misty around coasts, drizzle here and there, particularly for northwest

00:27England and more especially western Scotland where the rain will be persistent through

00:30the rest of the day with a strengthening southwesterly wind. But with all of this cloud coming from

00:36the Atlantic it is going to be a remarkably mild Christmas Eve. Widely 13 Celsius, could

00:42see 14, perhaps 15 degrees, somewhere like northeast Wales, given the wind will be warming

00:48up and drying out over the hills as it crosses the country. There will be some cloud breaks

00:53here and there, Midlands for example, northeast England, northeast Scotland, possible brighter

00:59spells but on the whole it's a grey and gloomy Christmas Eve and little change then as we

01:04go into Christmas Day. So it's going to stay cloudy overnight, again one or two cloud breaks

01:10across central and eastern parts, they'll be fleeting. Most places will stay cloudy

01:15with a lot of low cloud covering the hills of the west, bringing some bits and pieces

01:19of drizzle and more persistent rain into northwest Scotland. Christmas Day doesn't

01:23start off quite as mild as Christmas Eve, in fact on the whole the day will be about

01:28a degree or two less mild compared with Christmas Eve but it's a similar sort of theme with

01:35southwesterly winds, strong winds for the north and northwest of Scotland, 40-50 mph

01:41wind gusts and continuing to stay wet in the northwest of Scotland. Elsewhere it's patchy

01:47drizzle over hills and coasts of the west but mostly dry elsewhere and with lighter

01:52winds in the south and relatively mild winds it's not going to be a bad afternoon for getting

01:57out for a walk, might not be the crisp winter's day that a lot of people appreciate on Christmas

02:02Day but at least it will be mostly dry and settled, the weather shouldn't cause too many

02:07problems. 11-12 Celsius across the board so yeah, another mild Christmas Day, this sort

02:14of weather becoming increasingly traditional at Christmas time I think in the UK but as

02:20we go through the week ahead and into the weekend it does gradually turn a little colder

02:25with some more unsettled weather arriving for next week.