Met Office Thursday Afternoon Weather Forecast 09/01/2024

09 January - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

Transcript

00:00Hi there. For the vast majority, it's a cold but bright winter's day and it's going to

00:07be sunny for the vast majority as well. But it's going to continue to feel cold and there

00:13will continue to be some wintry showers, sleet and snow showers continuing to move into the

00:18north of Scotland. One or two peppering the coast of Northern Ireland, North and West

00:22Wales, North West England and the South West. These are the exceptions. For most though,

00:26you can see cloud-free skies but feeling cold. Temperatures of three or four Celsius

00:31typically in the south, zero to two Celsius further north below freezing where we've got

00:36snow cover and any modest elevation. And that means that under clear skies, as soon as the

00:42sun goes down, temperatures will plummet overnight. We'll also see some freezing fog patches form,

00:48particularly for Northern Ireland, parts of Wales into the Midlands for example. And temperatures

00:54well, fairly widely at minus three to minus five Celsius but where we've got snow cover,

01:01for example, Northern England, parts of Scotland, we could see minus 15, minus 16, minus 17.

01:06One exception, the far south-west where a band of rain will move in and that's going

01:11to lead to milder weather in Cornwall, parts of Devon as we begin Friday. But the rain

01:16falling onto frozen surfaces could cause some slippery surfaces and a few more flakes of

01:22snow likely above 150 metres. So Dartmoor, for example, three, four centimetres possible

01:28once again on Friday morning. But elsewhere, it would be rain and a risk of ice during

01:33the morning. That tends to fizzle out by the afternoon and other than some freezing fog

01:37patches persisting into the late morning, early afternoon period, for many it's another

01:42dry and bright day but it's going to feel cold out there. Temperatures in some places

01:46not rising above zero or one Celsius. And that leads us on to another very cold night

01:52on Friday night under this ridge of high pressure. That's going to lead to widespread frost and

01:58some icy patches once again going into the start of the weekend. Again, an exception

02:02there, the far west of the UK with a weather front bringing clouds, so a milder start but

02:07also eventually moving milder air in, first of all in the north and then later by the

02:13start of next week into the south as well.