Met Office Friday morning weather forecast 03/01/2025

Met Office

03 January - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

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00:00Thanks for joining me for your morning weather update from the Met Office. If

00:03you're watching on YouTube don't forget to hit subscribe. Plenty of cold air has

00:09spread its way southwards, a frosty start for many and some Met Office warnings in

00:13place for snow showers which continue to feed in over northeast Scotland. Showers

00:18more of a mixture of rain sleet and snow for western Scotland, Northern Ireland

00:21and northwest England but with temperatures around freezing here it

00:24could well be icy. Check out our app and website for full details of the weather

00:29warnings. Through the day we'll continue to see some of those showers feeding

00:33into Northern Ireland, western Scotland, northwest England. Chiefly of rain at low

00:37levels but some snow on the hills. Snow showers will continue to come in on a

00:41brisk wind over northeastern parts of Scotland. Snow showers and strong winds

00:45means blizzard conditions at times and that won't be very pleasant for

00:50traveling in throughout the day. A few showers coming in over North Wales but

00:54much of mid and south Wales, southern England, the Midlands, eastern England

00:58staying dry and bright with some sunshine through the day. Temperatures

01:01going to struggle though, we're starting well below freezing and struggling to

01:05get much above four or five degrees Celsius through the day. Feeling colder

01:09with the winds coming in along these North Sea coasts and temperatures barely

01:12getting above freezing across the northern isles. Now as we go through the

01:16evening time temperatures will quickly drop back down below freezing. Still a

01:20few showers coming in over northern England and western Scotland so again it

01:24could be icy as those temperatures tumble. Most of the showers still will

01:29be of rain or sleet at low levels but some snow is possible on some higher

01:34roads through the course of the evening. Temperatures again across the south

01:38dropping down below freezing at minus two minus three maybe a little lower

01:43than that in some rural spots. The breeze just showing signs of picking up in the

01:47far southwest perhaps not quite as cold here and that is a sign of things to

01:52come as we go through the weekend. During Saturday though again many places dry

01:56and bright a few showers keeping going in western Scotland again chiefly of

02:00rain at low levels some snow over the hills but for a good chunk of the

02:04country most of Saturday will be dry but cloud is going to increase from the

02:09southwest. The breeze will be picking up as well and we will see some wet weather

02:13coming in here initially of rain but could turn to snow later on. As the wet

02:18weather moves in temperatures will tick up so by the end of the day we could be

02:21up to seven or eight or nine in the far southwest but for most places again

02:26temperatures going to struggle to get much above three or four Celsius. Now we

02:29do need to watch this wet weather coming in for the weekend. It's an area of low

02:34pressure out in the Atlantic slowly chugging towards us over the next 24 to

02:3948 hours. It's coming in from the Atlantic so it's going to bring moisture

02:44but it's also going to bring milder air eventually across the south. This warm

02:49front will bring the warmer air but as the wetter air, wetter weather hits the

02:55cold air in place that could turn things pretty nasty for a time. Some heavy snow

03:00likely not lasting long across the south but could last for a while over the

03:05Midlands, Wales, Northern England, parts of Scotland. Some uncertainty about

03:08exactly how far north we get so how much snow we do see but we could certainly

03:13see quite widely several centimetres of snow over Northern England, parts of

03:17Scotland and ice is likely to be a risk over parts of the Midlands and Wales. We

03:22could see freezing rain for a time and that could cause some serious

03:28disruption. So we have warnings in place for the weekend, snow and ice across the

03:32south, snow warning in place across Scotland. Strengthening winds here will

03:36also again create drifting of the snow and potential blizzards and strong winds

03:41also likely across the south and then as it all melts as we head into Monday that

03:46could cause some flooding. So plenty to keep an eye on with this weather system

03:51moving in as we go through the weekend. Keep up to date yourself as I said at

03:54the start. If you're watching on YouTube hit subscribe and you can see those

03:58weather warnings for yourself on our app and on our website.

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