Met Office Wednesday afternoon weather forecast 12/02/2025

Met Office

12 February -  National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

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00:00Welcome to your Afternoon Weather Update from the Met Office.

00:03Another fairly drab and dismal day out there for most places.

00:07But it's not just across the UK where there's a lot of cloud.

00:10It's smothering much of northern and central Europe,

00:13all thanks to a chunky area of high pressure,

00:16which is keeping the easterly breeze going.

00:18Although not as strong as yesterday,

00:20it's still funneling in quite a lot of thick cloud.

00:23That cloud providing a few spots of drizzly rain here and there as well.

00:27Even the odd flake of snow likely over the hills of northern England and southern Scotland.

00:32A few more showers, light showers, going into the Midlands,

00:35East Anglia and the South East, perhaps even into East Wales.

00:38But most places dry and drab.

00:41Now there are a few breaks in the cloud.

00:43We've seen some sunny spells in Devon, Cornwall.

00:45A few breaks appearing in West Wales and certainly Western Scotland,

00:48the favoured spot for a bit of blue sky through the rest of today.

00:52Wherever you are though, it is on the chilly side

00:54and it feels particularly cold again on these North Sea coasts.

00:58As I mentioned, the wind not as strong as yesterday,

01:00but any breeze coming in from the North Sea at this time of year is going to make it feel cold.

01:04The thermometer will read five or six at best

01:07and when you add on that breeze, it feels much closer to freezing.

01:12So yes, a pretty chilly day, a pretty grey day.

01:15Still some light showers here and there as we go into the evening.

01:18But again, nothing too heavy.

01:20Most places will have a dry night.

01:23We'll keep a lot of cloud, but I think we'll see a few more breaks developing in the cloud tonight.

01:27Of course, Western areas in particular.

01:29So some lengthy clear spells allowing a frost for Western Scotland.

01:33Also parts of North West England, West Wales, South West England

01:36and parts of Northern Ireland are seeing a few breaks in the cloud.

01:40Temperature wise, well, it depends on that cloud cover.

01:43If we keep the cloud, it's tending to hold up at two or three degrees.

01:46But certainly that blue hue on the map suggesting a fairly extensive frost

01:50across Western Scotland with clear skies and any clearer skies further south

01:54will also allow temperatures in rural areas to get down to freezing.

01:57So another pretty chilly start to Thursday.

01:59But a better chance of seeing a few more sunny spells across Western areas in particular.

02:04But even further east, there may be a few more glimmers of brightness.

02:08However, it will actually probably feel a bit colder tomorrow.

02:11Slightly colder air is moving in.

02:13The odd shower, but most places just again, drab and dry.

02:18But I say temperatures are going to struggle a little bit.

02:20The winds in the east will be a little bit lighter tomorrow,

02:23but temperatures only four or five degrees at best.

02:25Where we'll see the breeze picking up is in the southwest,

02:28actually getting quite gusty here by the end of the day as the cloud starts to thicken

02:33and eventually some outbreaks of rain just trickling in towards the Isles of Sey and West Cornwall.

02:39That is some signs of an attempted change in our weather pattern

02:43as we head towards the end of the week.

02:45But it is only going to be an attempt.

02:47These weather fronts just gradually edging in but fizzling out

02:50as they bump up against high pressure further east.

02:53And this high pressure to low pressure battle is likely to continue into the weekend.

02:58Weather fronts will make slow progress across the country.

03:01They could provide some damp weather and even a little bit of snow in places

03:05during the course of the weekend.

03:07But even by the end of the weekend, those weather fronts not making much progress.

03:10High pressure and the cold air still in place across many eastern areas.

03:13So it's a real battleground as we head into next week.

03:16For more on that, you can catch our 10-day trend forecast.

03:20Alex Burkill will be recording that and that will be available on our YouTube channel

03:24by this afternoon.

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