Met Office Wednesday afternoon weather forecast 05/02/2025

05 February -  National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

Transcript

00:00Hi there, something we've not seen for a while, a high pressure system sitting over the UK

00:06bringing widespread sunny skies and frosty nights. That's what we'll see over the next

00:11couple of days at least. Plenty of sunshine developing then for the rest of Wednesday

00:15in many places but not everywhere. There will be one or two showers and some patchy cloud

00:19across England and Wales, more frequent showers coming into the north and west of Scotland

00:23falling as snow. Over the West Highlands, 300 metres or so that snow will fall and some

00:29hail mixed in as well. Feeling cold in the brisk breeze further north but with light

00:33winds and those sunny skies in the south. Pleasant enough, highs of 8 or 9 Celsius and

00:38temperatures will fall away quickly overnight as the sun goes down with light winds and

00:43widely clear skies by this stage as high pressure sets up over the UK. The showers in the north

00:49as well, they're going to fade away overnight so for the vast majority it's simply clear

00:53skies and light winds although a brisk breeze will continue into the north and west of Scotland.

00:58That will keep temperatures up at 5 or 6 Celsius, otherwise it's minus 1, minus 2 degrees

01:04in towns and cities and a few degrees below that in some of the most sheltered spots.

01:09So a widespread frost, some fog patches first thing particularly towards the south east

01:13and they'll tend to clear through the morning and then it's just a crisp, bright winter's

01:18day. Some patchy cloud into the south east and that brisk breeze continuing in the north

01:23and west of Scotland but otherwise for the vast majority it's sunny skies, light winds,

01:27feeling very pleasant indeed, 7 or 8 degrees. Later Thursday we'll see a bit more cloud

01:33arriving into the south and across central parts and that's a sign of another change

01:39going into Friday and the weekend. We're going to see the high pressure that's centred over

01:44the UK begin to move. It's going to move from sitting directly over the country into Scandinavia

01:51and at this time of year when we see high pressure move into Scandinavia we get colder

01:57easterly winds but the easterly winds arriving through the weekend aren't drastically cold.

02:03They're going to bring a mix of patchy rain and sleet across central and southern parts

02:08of the UK. The brightest skies will remain towards the north west. It will feel cold

02:13in the wind of course but temperatures not much lower than 3 to 5 degrees by day through

02:18the weekend with a lot of cloud cover. Not quite as pleasant as it's expected to be over

02:23the next couple of days. Bye bye.