Met Office Thursday Afternoon Weather Forecast 23/01/2025

Met Office

23 January - national forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

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00:00Storm Eoghan will hit the UK tonight with damaging gusts of wind on Friday.

00:05Met Office red warnings are in place across Northern Ireland, Central and

00:09South Western Scotland. The storm system has been intensifying as we've been

00:14through Wednesday night and into Thursday. This massive cloud under there

00:18that's where the storm is picking up intensity and will continue to do so as

00:22it approaches the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom over the next 12

00:26hours or so. Full details on that in just a second. First of all we've got to

00:30get rid of today's weather because there's some lively downpours out there

00:33right now. Gusty winds too for West Wales and South Western England. Met Office

00:37yellow warning in place gusts of 50 or 60 miles an hour. They'll be easing in the

00:41south and west. The sky is actually bright in here this afternoon but

00:44staying pretty wet across much of Eastern England, Northern England and a

00:48good part of Scotland with a little bit of snow over the hills. Some brighter

00:52spells in Northern Ireland but also a few showers coming in here through the

00:55rest of the day. Temperature wise still cold under that zone of cloud and rain

00:59struggling temperatures 5-6 degrees but it is turning a little milder across the

01:03south 7, 8, 9 maybe double digits in the far southwest. And then all eyes down to

01:09the southwest as the cloud starts to move in from storm Eowyn. The rain

01:14getting into southern parts of the Republic of Ireland through this evening

01:17then spreading northwards. Some snow mixed in over the hills of Northern

01:21Ireland that shouldn't last too long but then the wet weather swings across most

01:24areas by the end of the night. Heavy pulses of rain pushed along by a strong

01:29and well very strong and gusty wind with some more snow over the hills of

01:34Northern England and into Scotland. Let's look at the winds in detail because yes

01:38it is going to turn wet. Yes there'll be some snow on the hills but the winds are

01:42likely to cause the biggest disruption, the most damage. There's the storm system

01:48itself just drifting up to the northwest of Northern Ireland. The strongest winds

01:53here on its southern flank. That's where the isobars are really squeezed together.

01:58If we rewind again and run through the night, put the wind gusts on, we can see

02:03just how strong, how damaging they are likely to be. Initially getting into

02:08southwestern parts of the Republic of Ireland around about midnight but then

02:12look at this zone of really strong winds that get into the west coast of Ireland

02:16and then across into Northern Ireland by Friday morning rush hour. So some of the

02:21strongest winds likely across Northern Ireland on Friday mornings rush hour but

02:25also look at this zone of very powerful winds across the Irish Sea into

02:29southwest Scotland and then as the storm itself, the middle, the centre of the low

02:33heading its way up across the Western Isles. These strong winds on its southern

02:36flank get into central and western parts of Scotland. That zone of damaging gusts

02:42of wind through the early part of the afternoon. The storm itself then heads up

02:47across the Northern Isles with strong winds still across northern Scotland

02:50even as we head into Saturday. It's going to be a very, very windy spell right

02:55across the UK but let's focus in on the warnings because of that storm system.

02:59Red warnings for Northern Ireland and central and western parts of Scotland.

03:05Gusts of wind in this zone widely 60-70 mph. Gusts of 80-90 mph

03:10expected. The possibility in exposed areas of gusts of 100 mph. Those

03:15kind of winds are damaging. They are going to cause structural issues, bring

03:19down power cables, branches, cause widespread travel disruption as well.

03:24There are amber warnings flanking that red warning over northern England, North

03:28Wales and northern Scotland. Broad yellow warnings covering the whole of the UK.

03:33That's for the winds but there's also a warning for snow across Scotland, mostly

03:39over the hills but could cause some disruption on some of the higher routes

03:41and of course with the winds that means blizzards and a rain warning with today's

03:46rain followed by further heavy rain could cause some flooding issues over

03:49parts of Wales and southwest England. A lot of warnings in place. Check out the

03:54Met Office website or our free app for full details. You can go and see how you

03:58could be impacted and what you can do to prepare yourself for this storm system

04:03coming in. Again, lots and lots of information available on our website and

04:07please do keep up to date with the forecast. Here's how the day looks

04:12weather-wise. A very wet start. There's the snow over northern Scotland. Further

04:16spell of strong winds burrowing there across northern Ireland then into

04:21western Scotland. So it's really through the morning into the early afternoon

04:25that those damaging gusts are likely in this but a very gusty day everywhere.

04:28Notice actually much of England and Wales fine and bright sunny spells for a good

04:32chunk of the day once the initial rain has passed through but it stays very wet

04:37across the far northwest and those strong winds will continue in northern

04:41Scotland well into Friday night and the warnings continue into Saturday morning

04:46to temperature wise well double digits across the south haven't seen that for a

04:49while but obviously won't feel all that mild with the with the wind and that

04:53initial burst of rain and still pretty cold across northern Scotland hence why

04:57we're continuing to see some snow over the hills which will continue through

05:01Friday evening as well so Friday evening's rush hour still pretty grim

05:06across northern areas and the warning in force for those winds elsewhere it

05:11tends a little drier but and then another finger of rain coming into the

05:14southwest what happens after storm Aon well it will be clearing away as we head

05:19into the weekend drifting up to the north but they'll still be quite a few

05:23showers around into western areas on Saturday generally though a bit of a lull

05:28before this next area of low pressure comes in weather fronts bringing more

05:31rain falling onto the rain that we're going to see over the next 48 hours that

05:36could cause some issues so we need to keep our eyes on that for the winds also

05:41picking up not the same kind of level with this area of low pressure but still

05:46the potential for further disruption during the second half of the weekend

05:49from this area of low pressure as always here at the Met Office we will be

05:53keeping a very close eye on things and we will be keeping you updated best way

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