Met Office Friday Afternoon Weather Forecast 10/01/2024

Met Office

10 January - national forecast presented by Alex Deakin

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00:00Welcome to your latest weather update from the Met Office.

00:03It is slowly turning milder, but for most of us,

00:06it'll still be a cold weekend.

00:08And it's certainly cold out there this afternoon.

00:11The view from space shows some speckles in the North Sea.

00:14There's showers just drifting and clipping the East Coast.

00:17Thicker cloud, though, down to the Southwest.

00:19That is a weather front, and that

00:21is slowly trying to introduce milder air.

00:23But the dominant feature is this large area

00:26of high pressure that's building in across the country.

00:29Keeping things dry, keeping things mostly sunny by day,

00:32but also keeping things pretty chilly.

00:34There's that weather front, though.

00:35It's brought more cloud to the Southwest,

00:37a very different day for southwest England, south world.

00:39A little bit of rain and drizzle here and there.

00:41Maybe a few flakes of snow over the hills as well.

00:44One or two showers along the South Coast.

00:46As I mentioned, those showers just trying to feed in

00:49from the North Sea, clipping easternmost counties

00:51of England, Northeast Scotland.

00:53But many areas dry, fine, and sunny.

00:56But it is cold.

00:57Temperatures struggling to get much of a freezing,

01:00certainly where any fog lingers.

01:01And there are a few fog patches around.

01:03Two or three, the top temperature for most places.

01:06But it is a bit milder in the Southwest.

01:07Later on, could get to eight or nine in the far Southwest.

01:10That blanket of cloud will keep the temperatures up

01:13a little bit overnight across the Southwest.

01:15And the cloud will thicken as the weather front edges

01:17in across Northern Ireland, bringing

01:19a little bit of rain in here.

01:21Again, maybe the odd flake of snow over the hills.

01:24For many areas, though, it's dry.

01:25And the biggest concern tonight perhaps

01:27will be the fog, as well as the tumbling temperatures.

01:30Some dense patches of fog are likely

01:32to form through the night across parts of England and Wales

01:35in particular.

01:36Temperatures, again, are going to be dropping sharply.

01:40Frost forming rapidly this evening.

01:42And by first thing Saturday morning, minus 3, minus 4.

01:45That's in urban areas.

01:46Rural parts could get down to minus 16, minus 17

01:49across where there's snow lying on the ground

01:51through Northern England and Scotland.

01:53Again, though, further west with that cloud,

01:55temperature actually holding up.

01:56Milder nights across Northern Ireland and West Wales.

02:00But there will be some rain here as well.

02:02So a dull, damp start to Saturday.

02:03That rain, light and patchy, will creep its way

02:06into western fringes of Scotland,

02:09maybe at times into North Wales, a few spots of rain as well.

02:12But perhaps a drier day in the southwest of England,

02:15although still pretty cloudy here.

02:17Fog is going to be stubborn, slow to clear.

02:19The Welsh Marches, Northwest England, the Midlands,

02:22East Anglia, patchy in nature, but quite

02:24dense and very stubborn.

02:27And where the fog sticks, temperatures

02:28will really struggle.

02:29But for a good part of eastern England, eastern Scotland,

02:32it's another dry, bright day.

02:33And actually, it may well cheer up in Northern Ireland.

02:35It'll certainly get a bit milder here as well, 6, 7 degrees,

02:38maybe a little higher in the southwest.

02:40Again, many areas, though, temperatures

02:42struggling 3 or 4 degrees.

02:43And where that fog does stick, we probably

02:46won't get above freezing.

02:48That fog may thicken up a little bit during Saturday evening.

02:51But we are going to start to see a bit more of a change

02:53as we head through the second half of the weekend.

02:56The cloud continuing to edge in, not much

02:58in the way of rain on it.

02:59But of course, anything falling out the sky

03:01could freeze up and make things a little icy during the weekend.

03:04But behind me, the cloud is starting to thicken once more.

03:08And that is a little bit more of a lively weather front,

03:11starting to push in towards the northwest during Sunday.

03:14High pressure, though, still in control,

03:16still bringing a lot of dry and cold weather

03:19for England and Wales.

03:20Perhaps not quite as sunny on Sunday over the Midlands.

03:23But parts of eastern England, again,

03:25could have some of that patchy and dense fog.

03:27But the cloud breaking up a little bit

03:29for Wales, southwest England.

03:30So probably a brighter day here with some sunshine.

03:32Those weather fronts will bring cloud and rain

03:34into the northwest and a strengthening wind.

03:36But look at where the wind is coming from.

03:38It's coming from the south.

03:39So it will be slowly introducing milder air, so 7, 8, 9 degrees

03:44across northern Britain.

03:45Temperature a little higher on Sunday further south,

03:47but still on the cold side at 4 or 5 Celsius.

03:50Even here, though, it should turn a bit milder

03:52as we head into next week.

03:54Do keep up to date with the forecast.

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