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Met Office Thursday Afternoon Weather Forecast 23/01/2025
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23/01/2025
23 January - national forecast presented by Alex Deakin.
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Storm Eoghan will hit the UK tonight with damaging gusts of wind on Friday.
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Met Office red warnings are in place across Northern Ireland, Central and
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South Western Scotland. The storm system has been intensifying as we've been
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through Wednesday night and into Thursday. This massive cloud under there
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that's where the storm is picking up intensity and will continue to do so as
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it approaches the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom over the next 12
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hours or so. Full details on that in just a second. First of all we've got to
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get rid of today's weather because there's some lively downpours out there
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right now. Gusty winds too for West Wales and South Western England. Met Office
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yellow warning in place gusts of 50 or 60 miles an hour. They'll be easing in the
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south and west. The sky is actually bright in here this afternoon but
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staying pretty wet across much of Eastern England, Northern England and a
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good part of Scotland with a little bit of snow over the hills. Some brighter
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spells in Northern Ireland but also a few showers coming in here through the
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rest of the day. Temperature wise still cold under that zone of cloud and rain
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struggling temperatures 5-6 degrees but it is turning a little milder across the
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south 7, 8, 9 maybe double digits in the far southwest. And then all eyes down to
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the southwest as the cloud starts to move in from storm Eowyn. The rain
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getting into southern parts of the Republic of Ireland through this evening
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then spreading northwards. Some snow mixed in over the hills of Northern
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Ireland that shouldn't last too long but then the wet weather swings across most
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areas by the end of the night. Heavy pulses of rain pushed along by a strong
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and well very strong and gusty wind with some more snow over the hills of
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Northern England and into Scotland. Let's look at the winds in detail because yes
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it is going to turn wet. Yes there'll be some snow on the hills but the winds are
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likely to cause the biggest disruption, the most damage. There's the storm system
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itself just drifting up to the northwest of Northern Ireland. The strongest winds
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here on its southern flank. That's where the isobars are really squeezed together.
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If we rewind again and run through the night, put the wind gusts on, we can see
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just how strong, how damaging they are likely to be. Initially getting into
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southwestern parts of the Republic of Ireland around about midnight but then
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look at this zone of really strong winds that get into the west coast of Ireland
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and then across into Northern Ireland by Friday morning rush hour. So some of the
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strongest winds likely across Northern Ireland on Friday mornings rush hour but
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also look at this zone of very powerful winds across the Irish Sea into
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southwest Scotland and then as the storm itself, the middle, the centre of the low
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heading its way up across the Western Isles. These strong winds on its southern
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flank get into central and western parts of Scotland. That zone of damaging gusts
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of wind through the early part of the afternoon. The storm itself then heads up
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across the Northern Isles with strong winds still across northern Scotland
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even as we head into Saturday. It's going to be a very, very windy spell right
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across the UK but let's focus in on the warnings because of that storm system.
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Red warnings for Northern Ireland and central and western parts of Scotland.
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Gusts of wind in this zone widely 60-70 mph. Gusts of 80-90 mph
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expected. The possibility in exposed areas of gusts of 100 mph. Those
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kind of winds are damaging. They are going to cause structural issues, bring
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down power cables, branches, cause widespread travel disruption as well.
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There are amber warnings flanking that red warning over northern England, North
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Wales and northern Scotland. Broad yellow warnings covering the whole of the UK.
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That's for the winds but there's also a warning for snow across Scotland, mostly
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over the hills but could cause some disruption on some of the higher routes
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and of course with the winds that means blizzards and a rain warning with today's
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rain followed by further heavy rain could cause some flooding issues over
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parts of Wales and southwest England. A lot of warnings in place. Check out the
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Met Office website or our free app for full details. You can go and see how you
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could be impacted and what you can do to prepare yourself for this storm system
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coming in. Again, lots and lots of information available on our website and
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please do keep up to date with the forecast. Here's how the day looks
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weather-wise. A very wet start. There's the snow over northern Scotland. Further
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spell of strong winds burrowing there across northern Ireland then into
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western Scotland. So it's really through the morning into the early afternoon
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that those damaging gusts are likely in this but a very gusty day everywhere.
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Notice actually much of England and Wales fine and bright sunny spells for a good
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chunk of the day once the initial rain has passed through but it stays very wet
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across the far northwest and those strong winds will continue in northern
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Scotland well into Friday night and the warnings continue into Saturday morning
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to temperature wise well double digits across the south haven't seen that for a
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while but obviously won't feel all that mild with the with the wind and that
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initial burst of rain and still pretty cold across northern Scotland hence why
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we're continuing to see some snow over the hills which will continue through
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Friday evening as well so Friday evening's rush hour still pretty grim
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across northern areas and the warning in force for those winds elsewhere it
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tends a little drier but and then another finger of rain coming into the
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southwest what happens after storm Aon well it will be clearing away as we head
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into the weekend drifting up to the north but they'll still be quite a few
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showers around into western areas on Saturday generally though a bit of a lull
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before this next area of low pressure comes in weather fronts bringing more
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rain falling onto the rain that we're going to see over the next 48 hours that
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could cause some issues so we need to keep our eyes on that for the winds also
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picking up not the same kind of level with this area of low pressure but still
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the potential for further disruption during the second half of the weekend
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from this area of low pressure as always here at the Met Office we will be
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keeping a very close eye on things and we will be keeping you updated best way
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