Met Sunday afternoon weather forecast 12/01/2025

12 January - National weather forecast presented by Jonathan Vautrey.

Transcript

00:00Hello there, very good afternoon to you. After being in control of our weather for the past

00:05few days, high pressure is now losing its grip across the UK. It's slowly going to be

00:10drifting off towards the south east, whereas in the north west we've got low pressure starting

00:14to bring in some frontal systems. This will allow for some patchy outbreaks of rain across

00:18western Scotland today. Some drizzle is certainly also possible for areas of Northern Ireland

00:23underneath the widely cloudy skies here. For parts of England and Wales there will be some

00:27sunny spells around at times to enjoy, but some of us here will also see freezing fog

00:32patches lingering well into the afternoon. And if that fog does persist, it will be feeling

00:36quite cool. Temperatures will struggle much above low single figures. Something a touch

00:41milder in the west though, eight or nine degrees Celsius here. So we start to see winds coming

00:46in from a southerly direction. Those winds though really will start to strengthen across

00:51northwestern areas during this evening and overnight. Gales developing quite widely around

00:56coastal areas, locally turning severe for the Outer Hebrides into the Highlands as well

01:01as we move towards the early hours of Monday morning. Some heavier pulses of rain also

01:05arriving here closer towards dawn. There's going to be a drier and calmer night for England

01:10and Wales with some clear spells around, but underneath those clear skies temperatures

01:14will drop off more. So some patchy frost is possible for eastern Wales, more widely down

01:18into southeastern areas of England as well. But just notice how much milder it's going

01:22to be across the far northwest of Scotland to start off Sunday morning, a 10 degree temperature

01:27difference between what we'll be experiencing in the southeast. And that is because there's

01:32winds now really coming in from a southwesterly direction. If we trace the isobars back, we

01:37can see that the source of that air is coming all the way down from the Atlantic, a very

01:42mild source being in some very mild conditions for the time of year. Whilst mild, there are

01:49quite a few isobars on the chart here, so it is going to be quite gusty for Northern

01:54Ireland and Scotland right throughout Monday. Heavy pulses of rain around at times, quite

01:59a damp, wet day. The rain will eventually push into parts of Cumbria, the far northwest

02:03of Wales around Anglesey as well. The rest of England and Wales managing to stay dry,

02:08but it is going to be noticeably cloudier on Monday compared to those sunny spells we

02:11do have around today. Still temperatures struggling a touch, but around 5-7 degrees Celsius is

02:18closer towards average for the time of year here, but widely double figures across Scotland

02:23and Northern Ireland. And this north-south contrast is going to continue throughout a

02:28good portion of the forthcoming week. Northern areas will generally be milder, but also windier

02:33with a greater chance of seeing some rain around at times. In the south you will manage

02:37to stay dry, but there will be some fog lingering in places and it will also be cooler as well,

02:42some locally frosty nights still to come as well. We'll have plenty more updates across

02:47the YouTube channel on what you can expect during the next week, so do subscribe for

02:50those and we'll see you again here very soon. Bye bye.