Met Office Sunday Evening weather forecast 16/03/2025

16 March - national weather forecast presented by Marco Petagna.

Transcript

00:00Hello, here's your latest weather update from the Met Office. I'm Marco Pitania. We've got

00:04plenty of fine and settled weather across the UK at the moment, all thanks to high pressure

00:08dominating. But with that high pressure, there's quite a bit of cold air trapped below it.

00:11But over the next few days, notice the high starts to drift away towards the east and

00:14south-east of the UK. That opens the door to a much milder south-easterly flow. And

00:19towards the end of the week, that could also allow weather fronts to start approach from

00:22the south and west, introducing more unsettled weather by the end of the working week.

00:26Looking at things in more detail now for the overnight period, and we've got a weak weather

00:29front pushing south and westwards across England and Wales, bringing a fair bit of

00:33cloud here, some patchy rain as we go into the overnight period. The clearest skies tonight

00:37generally reserved for the north and west of Scotland, and here we'll see the coldest

00:40temperatures too, dipping below freezing here, giving a widespread frost. In fact, by the

00:44morning on Monday, we could see temperatures in some rural spots down to minus five Celsius.

00:49Across England and Wales though, with more cloud around, the frost here will be more

00:52patchy, and certainly in towns and cities, temperatures just about holding above freezing.

00:56As we go into Monday itself then, the sunshine towards the north-west will tend to fade as

01:00we go through the day, as clouds start to increase from the south-east. And generally

01:04speaking, across many southern and western parts of the UK, there will be a fair bit

01:07of cloud around, still a chance of a few showers down towards the south-west of England, and

01:11the clearest skies going into the afternoon are likely to develop across the east and

01:15south-east of England as we start to import some drier air from the near continent.

01:19Despite the sunshine though, it's going to be quite a chilly day once again. South to

01:23south-eastly flow, only lifting temperatures to around about nine or ten Celsius at best,

01:28perhaps peaking down towards the south-east very locally at 11 degrees, 11 will be 52

01:32in Fahrenheit. As we go into the evening and through the overnight period, the cloud will

01:35tend to push away north-westwards as drier air moves in from the near continent, so all

01:40parts seeing much clearer skies as we go into Monday night. But we will pay the price though

01:44for those clearer skies, turning quite frosty across many parts by Tuesday morning. Notice

01:48those blue colours on the map. Certainly across parts of Scotland, we could get down to minus

01:52seven, even minus eight Celsius in one or two rural spots by Tuesday, whereas across

01:56the south, certainly below freezing in the more rural spots.

02:00As for Tuesday itself then, after that cold and frosty start, plenty of sunshine is expected,

02:04pretty much wall-to-wall sunshine in fact across many parts of the UK. Just a small

02:08chance of a shower with some thicker cloud up towards the far north-east, but elsewhere

02:11with that sunshine, again not feeling too bad out and about, despite the bit of a south-eastly

02:16breeze, with temperatures peaking again at nine to 11 Celsius, 11 down towards the south

02:21there is 52 in Fahrenheit.

02:23As we go through the rest of the week, there will be plenty of sunshine for a time, but

02:26towards the end of the week, as I say, low pressure could approach from the south and

02:29west, introducing more unsettled conditions.

02:31That's pretty much it from me, but of course you can keep tuned to The Met Office Forecast

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02:39take care for now, bye bye.