Met Office Thursday afternoon forecast 06/02/2025

6 February - National weather forecast presented by Aiden McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there, if you're a fan of crisp but bright winters days, you'll love Thursday afternoon.

00:06High pressure has finally arrived and cloud-free skies are prevalent up and down the country

00:10from Shetland down towards the far south-west.

00:14But actually there is some patchy cloud and increasingly so for East Anglia and the south-east

00:18with the easterly breeze starting to pick up and it'll also be breezy towards the north

00:23and west of Scotland with some strong gusts for the Outer Hebrides and some patchy cloud

00:27here.

00:28But elsewhere, blue skies, plenty of sunshine and light winds so feeling very pleasant indeed

00:33with highs of 7 to 9 Celsius.

00:36Now the cloud I mentioned in the south-east will become more extensive during Thursday

00:40evening and it will bring some showers into Kent, also parts of the far south coast.

00:46With that patchy cloud and with the easterly breeze picking up, well actually that'll help

00:50to stir the air up, it'll trap some warmth and so it won't be quite as frosty overnight

00:53across the Midlands, the south and south-east of England, East Wales.

00:57Scotland, Northern Ireland, North West England, North Wales seeing plenty of clear skies,

01:01light winds and so here temperatures will fall away, a frost in places and some fog

01:06patches first thing.

01:08But plenty of bright weather once again for the north and west of Scotland, certainly

01:11Northern Ireland, sunny spells, North West England and West Wales.

01:15Elsewhere increasingly cloudy and with that thicker cloud and stronger easterly breeze

01:20we're going to see some showers move into the south.

01:24Things will be sleety in places because it's going to be feeling cold, it'll feel especially

01:28cold in the wind but temperatures a few degrees down on recent days, 4 to 6 Celsius.

01:35Now the sleety rain I mentioned in the south, well that could give a very slight covering

01:40of snow over the Downs, the Chilterns and then later on Friday night over the Welsh

01:44Mountains perhaps more widespread and deeper snow over the Welsh Mountains and perhaps

01:50the hills of the south-west as well.

01:53So we're talking about hill snow, not low level snow, it would be rain and sleet at

01:57lower levels because although we've got an easterly it's nowhere near like the beast

02:01from the east.

02:02To find out the full reasons for that watch Alex Deakin's 10 Day Trend which you can find

02:06on the YouTube channel but in short the easterly has a southerly component, it's coming up

02:12from the south-east and we've got some milder air mixed in with this area of low pressure

02:17moving up from the south as we start the weekend rather than properly cold air coming all

02:23the way from Siberia which is what happened with the beast from the east.

02:26So not all easterly winds are the same, this one through the weekend and into the start

02:30of next week is likely to bring some hill snow but at lower levels more likely cold

02:36rain, sleet and very minimal amounts of snow I should say and it's going to be increasingly

02:43grey as low pressure brings a series of weak fronts in from the south.

02:49So yeah, colder, greyer skies as we go into the weekend and the start of next week away

02:55from the far north-west and some sleet and hill snow in places.

03:00You can find all the latest updates on our YouTube channel as always.

03:03Bye bye.