Met Office Thursday afternoon weather forecast 30/01/2025

30 January - National weather forecast presented by Aiden McGivern.

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00:00Hi there, blue skies for many of us during Thursday afternoon, plenty of sunny spells

00:04and fine weather, although the far north east of Scotland is still affected by an area of

00:08low pressure which is moving away. That's going to bring showery rain for Shetland and

00:12perhaps for Orkney as well, a few showers along with a gusty and cold feeling wind.

00:17Lighter winds elsewhere, plenty of sunny spells, just one or two showers into the west, otherwise

00:21a fine afternoon for the vast majority. And with bright blue skies, feeling perfectly

00:26pleasant 7 or 8 Celsius in the south, right average for the time of year, 3 or 4 though

00:30for the north east of Scotland and feeling cold with the wind. Northern Ireland turns

00:35cloudy by the end of the afternoon ahead of this system which is an occluded front, that's

00:39going to bring a spell of heavy rain from the west to the east overnight and as it bumps

00:45into the cold air ahead of it, there'll be a spell of hill snow for northern England

00:49and Scotland because temperatures are going to fall away for parts of Scotland and the

00:53east and north of England during the evening. Frost in places as low as minus 3 or minus

00:594 Celsius for sheltered parts of north east Scotland and with that cold air in place there'll

01:03be some hill snow, mostly the falling snow above 200 metres, settling snow above around

01:08500 metres or so. One or two roads could be affected first thing, but it is a temporary

01:14situation during the early hours before milder air arrives by the end of the night. And the

01:19rain pushes through, gusty rain, gusty winds I should say, and heavy rain for a time. By

01:25the end of the night it's into the Midlands, the south and south east of England. Showers

01:30following but also some clear spells into Northern Ireland and Wales and temperatures

01:34recovering, these are the temperatures by dawn rather than the minimum temperatures

01:38which will likely occur earlier in the night. A lot of cloud first thing for many central

01:44and eastern parts of the country, some rain to clear slowly from the south east but the

01:49heavier stuff is really early doors. And it stays gloomy in the east of England but brighter

01:55skies are moving into the west. A fine end to the day for Northern Ireland, Western and

01:59Northern Scotland and Wales in the south west, temperatures of 9 or 10 Celsius and with light

02:04winds a pleasant enough afternoon, albeit with a lot of cloud there remaining for the

02:09east of England. That tends to fizzle away into Friday evening and then it's a repeat

02:14performance with clear skies initially on Friday night before the next system brings

02:19a spell of cloud and rain in by the start of the weekend. So the weather chopping and

02:25changing over the next few days but at least there will be some decent sunny spells in

02:29between any wetter systems moving through from the west. We'll keep you updated right

02:34here from the Met Office. Bye bye.