Met Office Friday Evening Weather Forecast 17/01/2025

Met Office

17 January - national forecast presented by Alex Burkill

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00:00Hello again, very good evening to you. Lots of dry weather to come as we go through much

00:05of this weekend, but we are actually going to see our temperatures dropping a little

00:08bit. We still have high pressure to the southeast of us and it's this that's leading to the

00:13largely calm picture that we have currently, but with that we have some of our air coming

00:18in from the continent and that's a cold direction at the moment and so that's why we're going

00:23to see our temperatures dropping through the weekend. But looking at the details and a

00:27bit of rain across the far north-west of Scotland through the evening, that clears

00:31away and then it's a largely dry night, but a largely cloudy night for many of us. Limited

00:36clear breaks, perhaps across parts of northern Scotland there will be some clear skies and

00:41a few breaks elsewhere, but most places having a lot of cloud and with that there could be

00:46some drizzly rain in a few places too. Despite the cloud, temperatures are actually going

00:51to drop relatively low. I mentioned the cold air that we have coming across us and so that's

00:55going to lead to many places across England and Wales in particular dropping close to

01:00freezing if not a little bit below in some places, particularly over higher ground, so

01:04a touch of frost is possible. Also the far north of Scotland where we do get some clearer

01:08skies could see a touch of frost here as well. So a bit of a chilly, cloudy start to the

01:13day for many of us on Saturday. With that though, as we go through the day I am expecting

01:18a bit more sunshine than we saw through Friday, especially across, well, northern parts of

01:23Scotland, perhaps parts of northern Northern Ireland and also northern England, Wales,

01:27south west England. Here we should have some decent breaks developing as the winds come

01:31from the south and as they bounce over any higher ground to the lee of high ground downwind.

01:37That's where we have the greatest chance of seeing some lengthy sunny breaks. Across central

01:42southeastern parts of the country, here it is going to stay fairly cloudy and with that

01:47again there could be some drizzle around and with temperatures around if not a bit below

01:51freezing in some places, some of that drizzle could be frozen so we could get some snow

01:55grains in places as well. Like I said then, a chilly feel to things, temperatures a little

01:59bit lower than on Friday for many of us, markedly so across northern areas where they could

02:04be about 4 or 5 degrees lower than it was on Friday. So a chillier feel here and a feeling

02:10even chillier still towards the south where temperatures are a fair few degrees below

02:14average for the time of year. Later on as we go through Saturday evening and overnight

02:19not a huge amount changes. There will still be quite a lot of cloud towards central southern

02:23parts, perhaps a bit more cloud spilling a bit further northwards into north Wales and

02:27northern England but still some clearer skies across parts of northern England and north

02:31Wales and some clear skies across many parts of Scotland as well and some for parts of

02:36northern Ireland too. There is a front coming in from the west but it's not a particularly

02:39strong one and it's not making a huge amount of progress but we could see some rain pushing

02:44into the far west of northern Ireland by the early hours of Sunday morning and perhaps

02:47towards the outer Hebrides as well. Where we get the clear skies across parts of northern

02:52England, north Wales in particular, likely to turn quite frosty and there could be some

02:56fog, some freezing fog patches first thing on Sunday morning but similar to Saturday

03:00morning really despite the cloudier skies towards the south it is still going to be

03:04quite chilly and a touch of frost is quite possible here. Through Sunday itself then

03:09this front in the west does continue to gradually make its way eastwards but like I said it's

03:14quite a weak feature so just a bit of rain pushing initially across parts of northern

03:18Ireland feeding a bit into western Scotland and then there may be some rain reaching far

03:23western parts of England and Wales later and overnight into Monday but not a huge amount.

03:28For many it is going to be a similar-ish date to Saturday really, some cloudy skies, a bit

03:33of brightness particularly to the north of any higher ground but again where the clouds

03:38thick enough we could have some drizzly rain and even some snow grains again in a few spots.

03:43The temperatures look similar, a little bit lower than Saturday for some places and when

03:46you're stuck under that cloud with that cold air that we have across us it is going to

03:50feel pretty chilly indeed. Now looking further ahead and as we go into the beginning of next

03:56week like I said that front makes its way across but it makes slow progress, won't bring

04:00a huge amount of rain for many of us. We are still under the influence of the high pressure

04:04but it is drifting away towards the east and later on next week there is the potential

04:09for some more unsettled weather to push its way in. So you will want to keep on top of

04:13that. Whatever you are up to this weekend though I do hope you have a great one. Bye

04:17bye.

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