Met Office Thursday afternoon weather forecast 20/02/2025

Met Office

20 February-  National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin

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00:00Thanks for joining me for your Thursday afternoon weather update from the Met

00:04office. For most of February we've been looking out east but now we have to look

00:09out west. The weather's changed you've probably noticed much milder but also

00:13much wetter and windier. Here's the satellite picture the UK smothered in

00:17cloud already and a real mishmash of low-pressure systems and weather fronts

00:22out in the Atlantic. This area of cloud is developing that's going to bring a

00:26spell of wet and very windy weather during Friday. But before we get there

00:31through the rest of today weather fronts crossing the country the isobars pretty

00:34close together it's blustery it's gusty and you can see from the radar I've

00:38already seen some pretty heavy rain. More to come as well one zone of rain

00:41crossing Scotland's heavy showers crossing southern parts of England. We

00:45need to watch this area across North Wales around lunchtime then into

00:49northern England southern Scotland some really intense rain from that maybe

00:53some hailstones and all of a sudden the winds will start to gust up as well.

00:58Some pretty nasty traveling conditions particularly on the M62 for example.

01:02It does turn a bit dry and a bit brighter in many western areas through the

01:05afternoon into the evening time but it stays pretty gusty those winds drawing

01:10up mild air from the southwest. So it isn't cold certainly a lot warmer than

01:15most of February so far temperatures into the teens we could squeak up to 15

01:19in one or two locations. Still some pretty heavy rain across parts of

01:22Yorkshire into the early evening and through the rush hour but it does scoot

01:26away and many places become a lot drier through the first half of the night but

01:31it doesn't last. Look at this that cloud we saw earlier on the satellite picture

01:35just pushing in further outbreaks of rain getting quite heavy in the west and

01:39the winds getting stronger through the night in these western areas as well but

01:43still drawing in that mild air so overnight temperatures double digits to

01:48start Friday for a good chunk of the country. So again a mild start but for

01:53quite a few of us a wet start and increasingly windy as I mentioned we do

01:57have warnings in place for gusty winds south coast of Wales west coast of Wales

02:02the east coast of Northern Ireland southwestern parts of Scotland gusts of

02:0550-60 miles an hour during Friday morning into the early afternoon maybe

02:10even close to 70 miles an hour along some coasts. We also have warnings for

02:14the rain which increases over southwest Scotland through the morning and then

02:18peps up and lingers across much of Scotland during the day. Much of central

02:23and eastern England will have a dry start to Friday many eastern counties

02:26will stay dry all day but it's far from dry in the west that rain building up

02:31those gusty winds which will start to ease a little bit through the afternoon.

02:35Northern Ireland Wales actually may well cheer up a little bit for Friday

02:39afternoon so again turning a little bit brighter as I said staying mostly dry

02:43until the evening time across East Anglia and the southeast but those

02:46gusty winds will be noticeable still bringing that mild air temperatures

02:51again into the teens again we could reach 15 or perhaps even 16 Celsius

02:55where we see a little bit of sunshine. Now that rain will creep its way towards

02:59East Anglia and the southeast there's a bit of a question mark about how long it

03:03lingers into Friday evening but it could be a bit of a damp end to the day here.

03:08Elsewhere though it is turning a little bit drier or with some showers getting

03:12into the Western Isles of Scotland so that weather front as I said bit of a

03:15question mark about how quickly it clears through Friday and into Saturday

03:20but generally speaking he's squint and there's a little bump in the isobars

03:24there that means a little ridge of high pressure bringing some drier conditions

03:28for Saturday but look at this for Sunday another low more weather fronts the

03:32isobars very tightly packed a very blustery day on Sunday and further heavy

03:37rain to come further warnings have been issued for Sunday you can see all of

03:42those warnings for yourself see how you could be impacted by visiting our

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