Week Ahead 03/02/2025 – Rain clears, frosts return - video Dailymotion

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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 03/02/2025. After a changeable start to the week, the weather settles down as high pressure arrives. Bringing you this week’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.

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00:00Hi there and welcome to the Met Office forecast for the week ahead. A big change

00:04this week for the UK's weather as high pressure builds by the end of the week

00:07bringing a return to overnight frosts and widespread settled weather but for

00:12the start of the week we've still got low pressure in charge in fact this low

00:15is a very deep feature moving to the north of Iceland on Tuesday morning and

00:20swinging a weather front into Scotland and Northern Ireland a wet night to come

00:24here and as we start off Tuesday the wet weather is pushing through the south and

00:28southwest of Scotland could be some issues with a yellow warning in force

00:32until lunchtime and then it's Western England and Wales that see the rain move

00:37in during Tuesday morning and early afternoon eventually that rain pushes

00:41into the rest of Northern England as well as the Midlands and central

00:45southern England ahead of that some sunshine 11 degrees but increasingly

00:48breezy behind it we've got some sunny spells returning also some blustery

00:52showers and feeling a little colder in the northwest of Scotland now the front

00:56tends to fizzle away as it moves through the southeast of England later

01:00Tuesday so not much rain here and indeed it's moving into an area of high

01:04pressure which is building from the south and that's the high that will come

01:07to dominate things for the rest of the week and in fact potentially beyond so

01:12actually we start off with plenty of fine weather across the south on

01:16Wednesday just one or two showers into Wales and the southwest more frequent

01:20showers for northwest England Scotland and Northern Ireland on a blustery

01:24westerly breeze and those showers falling as sleet and snow over the hills

01:28of Scotland but they'll be interspersed by sunny spells and by the end of the

01:32day for many parts of certainly England or Wales it's settled it's dry it's sunny

01:36temperatures around average for the time of year meanwhile on the other side of

01:41the Atlantic a deep area of low pressure is moving through Greenland and then

01:46into Iceland and in the wake of that we've got this cold plunge over the

01:50West Atlantic that helps to force the jet stream to dive south that has a

01:53ripple effect around our neck of the woods because it pushes the jet stream

01:57to the north of the UK and to the north of the Norwegian Sea sending all this

02:01warm air up into Norway and the Arctic meanwhile that helps to build this very

02:08large area of high pressure over the UK itself and keep it in place for some

02:13time so the jet stream becomes very very amplified and as a result we end up with

02:19high pressure sitting over us and blocking Atlantic weather and that means

02:25clear skies on Wednesday night will lead to a widespread frost on Thursday

02:30morning with temperatures several degrees below freezing in rural parts so

02:34chilly start but a bright start some freezing fog patches around they'll be

02:37slow to clear where they do occur but otherwise you can see up and down the UK

02:42it's sunny skies from Shetland to the Outer Hebrides, Northern Ireland, Wales

02:46the southeast it's mostly dry and settled just some patchy cloud coming

02:51into the southeast and that thickens a bit more by the start of Friday along

02:56with an increased breeze that will lead to potentially less frosty conditions

03:01towards the southeast but otherwise under clear skies and light winds

03:04elsewhere it's another widespread frost again some freezing fog patches to wake

03:08up to on Friday but we do have a bit more cloud across much of central and

03:13southern England as well as East Wales on Friday still some holes in the cloud

03:17could bring one or two showers into the south coast otherwise for the vast

03:21majority it's another dry bright and increasingly cold feeling day now by the

03:27end of Friday we've got this increasingly breezy weather coming in

03:32from the east and the Easterlies are the results of high pressure relocating from

03:38the UK into Scandinavia. Easterly winds at this time of year are always going to

03:43be cold and indeed through the weekend this particular Easterly will be cold

03:48enough to give some sleet and snow showers especially across eastern and

03:53southern parts of the UK but not all Easterlies are the same not all Easterlies

03:59can be likened to 2018's beast from the east and certainly for the time of year

04:05you'd expect even colder air to be upstream of the UK than what we're

04:12seeing through the weekend so this isn't going to be nearly as cold certainly at

04:16first or as widely disruptive as the beast from the east of 2018 but it will

04:23still be cold and if it continues throughout next week there's always the

04:28possibility that even colder air will arrive and with the additional risks of

04:35wintry weather and in fact it does look like this Easterly wind will continue

04:41throughout much of next week this is a chart showing the most likely weather

04:44patterns each day going out to the next two weeks and what's strongly coming out

04:49of this chart is that once we get that high pressure over Scandinavia which is

04:54this color it's the dominant weather pattern throughout next week this color

04:59comes in as an also a possible scenario and that's high pressure to the north

05:04which will also give us Easterly winds and the Atlantic weather highlighted by

05:08these blue colors only start to make a reappearance around the middle of

05:12February so it looks likely that will start off next week with high pressure

05:17to the east of the UK and east to south easterly wind and it's going to feel

05:21cold with some wintry weather around but not as cold as it could be

05:27nevertheless if that easterly continues throughout next week there is always the

05:31chance of a situation like this where we get even colder air coming from the east

05:36but it is of course way too early to give specifics on all of that will keep

05:40updated right here at the Met Office and you can find all those updates in our

05:44usual channels. Bye bye.

Week Ahead 03/02/2025 – Rain clears, frosts return

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