Met Office Wednesday afternoon weather forecast 22/01/2025

Met Office

22 January - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

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00:00Hello, the relative calm before the storm.

00:04The weather is going to be getting livelier

00:06over the next 24 hours.

00:07Storm Eowyn will arrive Thursday night and into Friday.

00:11Quite a bit of cloud covering the southeast of the UK today.

00:14Then there's a clearer zone.

00:15This band of cloud will provide a spell

00:18of wet and windy weather during Thursday.

00:20And then behind me, well, the cloud

00:22is brewing up a little bit.

00:24But if we look at what storm Eowyn is at the moment,

00:27it's this weak area of low pressure.

00:30But it isn't going to stay like that.

00:31It's gradually going to intensify

00:33as we go through the next 24 hours

00:35and then really intensifies as it

00:38heads towards the Republic of Ireland during Thursday night

00:42and into Friday.

00:43It then crosses close to Northern Ireland

00:45and into Scotland.

00:46The strongest winds where the isobars are closest together

00:49in this zone, in its southern flank.

00:52That's where we're going to see damaging gusts of wind.

00:54But it is going to be a very windy day everywhere.

00:57Could be disruption right across the UK.

00:59More on that in a moment.

01:01First of all, though, let's get through this afternoon.

01:03Weak weather front still providing some rain and drizzle

01:05over parts of East Anglia and the southeast.

01:07Quite a gray, gloomy, murky, cold day here.

01:10Apart from that, though, many places dry.

01:12A few showers for North Wales, West Coast of Wales,

01:15West Coast of Scotland.

01:17But elsewhere, tending to brighten up a little bit.

01:19Some places seeing a little bit of sunshine.

01:22And the winds are, at the moment, pretty light.

01:25Temperatures still struggling.

01:26A touch below average in most of the locations,

01:28particularly across East Anglia and parts of the southeast

01:30where it's dank and murky.

01:32Struggling to get much above three or four Celsius.

01:34A bit of brightness elsewhere.

01:36Maybe six or seven degrees Celsius.

01:39As we go through this evening,

01:40that's dank and drizzly weather should tend to pull away

01:43from the southeast.

01:44A few showers keeping going in the west here and there

01:46around coast.

01:47But most places having a dry night with decent clear spells.

01:51And where the skies are clearest,

01:53northeast England, northeast Scotland,

01:55we will see a frost.

01:56And many towns and cities actually not far away

01:58from freezing to start Thursday morning.

02:01Fairly chilly old starts,

02:03but actually temperatures starting to rise further west

02:06because that line of cloud I pointed out

02:08on the satellite picture earlier,

02:09that's this band of rain.

02:11That's moving in through tomorrow.

02:12Now this will be pretty lively.

02:14It's going to bring a spell of rain across Northern Ireland

02:17fairly sharply in the morning.

02:18And then the winds picking up around the coast of Wales,

02:21southwest England, and through the day

02:22along the south coast of England as well.

02:24So we've got Met Office yellow warning in place

02:27for those gusty winds.

02:28That rain will zip through,

02:30but it will be quite heavy certainly for a time

02:33and linger for much of the afternoon

02:35across Northern England, parts of Scotland.

02:37Be a bit of snow mixed in as well over the hills,

02:39particularly over Scotland, but also Northern England.

02:41Tends to clear through further south.

02:43So something a bit brighter and drier through the afternoon,

02:45but still fairly blustery

02:47given the winds have been pretty light for a while.

02:50That will be quite noticeable.

02:51Temperature wise, five, six, seven.

02:53So just started to creep up for many places,

02:55nine, 10 across parts of the south and west.

02:57So it is going to turn a little milder,

02:59but as we go through Thursday evening,

03:03as that rain band clears away,

03:05we will see those temperatures falling away quite sharply.

03:08And then eyes out to the southwest.

03:11The cloud will start to thicken up

03:12through the course of Thursday night.

03:14This is the first sign of Storm Eoin

03:18pushing into the far southwest of Ireland

03:20with some heavy rain during Thursday evening.

03:22But of course, it's not going to stop there.

03:24The storm system intensifying through Thursday

03:28and then tracking across parts of the Republic of Ireland,

03:31Northern Ireland up towards Scotland.

03:33As I said, where these isobars are closest together,

03:35that's where the strongest winds are going to be.

03:37But it is going to be a very windy day right across the UK.

03:41The weather fronts providing the rain,

03:43they tend to scoot out of the way.

03:44So certainly across the south, much of Friday will be dry.

03:48The strongest winds likely through the first part of Friday

03:51across the south and during Thursday night,

03:53certainly across the Republic of Ireland.

03:55Let's put the wind gusts on as we go through Thursday night,

03:58really whipping up along the south coast

04:00of the Republic of Ireland, then into the west.

04:03There's darker colours there,

04:05but then as the storm system moves its way

04:07up to the western Scotland,

04:09some really strong gusts for Northern Ireland

04:12across the Irish Sea as well,

04:14generally across Northern England.

04:15So it's in this swathe that we're most concerned

04:18about the strength of the wind.

04:19And well, it stays pretty windy through Friday night.

04:23And as the storm system clears away,

04:24we'll see some of the strongest winds

04:25across Northern Scotland actually develop

04:27during Friday night and into Saturday.

04:30So there are a number of Met Office warnings in place

04:33for the next few days.

04:35Amber warning issued this morning,

04:37covering central and southern Scotland,

04:39Northern Ireland, parts of Northern England

04:41and North Wales.

04:42Gusts here widely 60 to 70 miles an hour inland.

04:46We could easily get to 80 miles an hour,

04:48possibly in exposed areas up to 90 miles an hour.

04:51Those kinds of winds are gonna cause structural damage,

04:53bring down power lines, potentially bring down trees.

04:55So expect power issues,

04:57maybe even disruption to mobile phone services,

05:00certainly widespread travel disruption

05:02with these kinds of gusts of wind.

05:04But it's not only in the amber warning area

05:07that we are concerned.

05:08Broader yellow wind warnings covering

05:10pretty much all of the UK.

05:12Those winds may be a little lighter elsewhere,

05:14but still potentially damaging,

05:15still likely to cause some disruption.

05:18There are also other warnings in place for rain.

05:21As we see Thursday's rain,

05:23followed by more rain on Friday for Wales,

05:25parts of Southwest England.

05:27That does bring the potential for some flooding.

05:29And as storm Eowyn moves in,

05:31it will bring some snow over the hills

05:33of Northern England for a time,

05:35and then lingering over the hills and mountains

05:37of Northern Scotland.

05:38So we've got a snow warning in place here

05:41and the wind warnings continue

05:43across parts of Scotland into Saturday.

05:47So, as I said, plenty going on.

05:49Likes to be more wet and windy weather

05:50coming in on Sunday as well.

05:52Please do keep up to date with the forecast.

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