Met Office Friday Afternoon Weather Forecast 28/03/25

28th March - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there, a spell of rain clearing through and then a couple of days of changeable, cooler,

00:07showery weather before more settled and warmer weather arrives from Sunday.

00:11For the time being though, the rain clears the far south-east around lunchtime, much

00:17brighter skies with some decent sunny spells in places but also this unstable west-north-west

00:22of the Airstream and that airflow is going to be particularly brisk in the north-west

00:27with coastal gales, western and northern Scotland feeding in plenty of showers with the risk

00:32of hail and thunder in places and some hill snow as well.

00:36So the further north-west you are, the more likely you are to experience this cool breeze

00:41along with frequent showers towards the south-east once the early rain clears, 15 Celsius possible

00:46in any sunny spells and the winds ease across southern parts overnight.

00:51The showers die away, plenty of clear spells for England, Wales, eastern and southern Scotland.

00:56Still some showers remaining for the north, central and western part of Scotland and for

01:01Northern Ireland the cloud thickens by dawn so that's going to keep things frost free

01:06in the north-west but under clear skies and with lighter winds elsewhere, 2-3 Celsius

01:12widely and in some places below freezing with a few mist patches first thing across central

01:17and southern parts of the UK but the mist disappears quick enough and plenty of sunshine

01:22across England and Wales through the morning, eastern Scotland seeing a bright start as

01:26well however when the next weather system rolls in that's going to bring a spell of

01:30rain once again to Scotland, Northern Ireland and then pushing into parts of north-west

01:35England, west Wales and the far south-west by the end of the afternoon.

01:39It's a relatively weak front towards the south but it will be persistent and heavy at times

01:44as far as the rain is concerned for western Scotland as it pushes through.

01:48That's followed by further showers into the far north-west but ahead of the front we keep

01:52the sunshine for east Midlands, east Anglia and the south-east and that's where the highest

01:56temperatures will be once again, 13-14 Celsius, perhaps 15 degrees into the afternoon if we

02:02get enough sunshine.

02:03It will still be breezy, that breeze helping to push the rain through but it's a weakening

02:08band of rain so largely just an area of cloud and some spots of rain as we go into the evening.

02:14Frequent showers continuing for the north of Scotland, elsewhere drying up with some

02:18clear spells and once that front's out of the way, by Sunday we've got higher pressure

02:23building in from the south and that's going to stay with us throughout much of next week.

02:28In fact it's going to be positioned to the east of the UK.

02:31We're going to see sunnier and warmer weather drawn north across much of the country from

02:37the continent.

02:38So a brief spell of changeable, cool, showery weather for a couple of days before higher

02:43pressure returns.