Met Office Saturday Morning Weather Forecast 11/01/2024

11 January - national forecast presented by Alex Deakin

Transcript

00:00Morning will all end the weekend, quite a bit warmer than we started, but then for most

00:06of us that won't be too difficult. A hard frost out there this morning. There's also

00:10some thick fog patches to contend with over parts of the Midlands, eastern and northern

00:15England along with the Welsh Marches. Further west it's not as cold as recent mornings,

00:19the start of the change. This bank of cloud is a weather front making for a damp drizzly

00:23start for Northern Ireland. Should get a bit brighter here through the day, that rain and

00:27drizzle with some snow mixed in over the hills edging into western Scotland, but nothing

00:31too heavy, turning a bit damp across parts of north Wales, maybe Cumbria too. But a good

00:36chunk of England and Wales will stay dry. It'll be quite cloudy in the west, but for

00:40the Midlands and eastern England and northeast Scotland we should hang on to some sunshine,

00:45but provided the fog clears. And for parts of the Midlands and eastern England, that

00:50fog won't clear. It's going to be patchy, but it is quite dense in places this morning,

00:53so something to be aware of before hitting the roads. And as I say, it may well last

00:57for much of the day where it has formed. And that means temperatures are going to struggle

01:02to get much above freezing where it's foggy. In the sunnier skies in the east, 2-3 degrees,

01:06so similar to the values we've had of late. But further west temperatures are starting

01:11to tick up a little bit. We should get highs of 5 or 6 degrees Celsius. And the milder

01:16air will continue to slowly push in further as we go through the night. The cloud edging

01:21further in as well. That fog thickening up though for parts of eastern England, at least

01:25for a time overnight. And again, quite dense in places. The rain and drizzle tending to

01:29fizzle out. So most places will be dry as we start tomorrow. But overall, quite a lot

01:35of cloud across the UK. Temperatures will still dip. Well, we've got some clearer skies

01:40down below freezing over eastern parts of England in particular. Towns and cities well

01:45below freezing by first thing tomorrow morning. But further west, more places will stay above

01:50freezing overnight tonight as that milder air continues to very slowly push in. It'll

01:54still feel cold for much of tomorrow across the south. A little bit of light rain and

01:58drizzle as possible in this thicker zone of cloud. That tends to fizzle out through the

02:02day. But thickening cloud in the northwest, that will bring a bit more in the way of wet

02:05weather to western Scotland and the Western Isles, eventually to the Northern Isles. And

02:09we could see some at times over Northern Ireland. With this wet weather into Scotland, if it

02:15peps up later on, we could also see the snow melting pretty rapidly. And those two combining

02:21is something we need to watch here. The snow will be melting because temperatures are going

02:25to be high. And you can tell that by the wind direction. It is going to get quite windy

02:28in these western areas, particularly over northwest Scotland. But look at where the

02:32wind is coming from. It is trying to push that milder air in. By the end of the day,

02:37in parts of the west, we could be close to double digits, whereas still pretty chilly

02:41despite some sunshine over the Midlands, southern and eastern England, 4 or 5 degrees.

02:46That is higher than today, but still below average. You're still feeling pretty chilly.

02:51But the milder air will eventually arrive in all areas by the time we get into the new

02:56working week. But we need to watch that wet weather coming in with the snow melts. Something

02:59we'll be keeping an eye on. You can keep up to date yourself with the forecast. Best way

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