16 May - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern
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00:00Hi there. One big difference today compared with yesterday is that I think fewer people will be affected by low cloud.
00:08There'll be a bit more sunshine across the UK, but still some low clouds to talk about,
00:12and it's mainly affecting the east coast of England with high pressure to the north and an east to northeasterly breeze,
00:18making it feel cool on that north sea coast and keeping the cloud onto some of these north sea counties.
00:25It will come and go at times, but yeah, that's where it's going to stay grey.
00:30Elsewhere, plenty of sunshine, certainly more sunshine to come for parts of the Midlands and the southeast compared with Thursday.
00:36And feeling very pleasant in the sunshine, 22, 23 Celsius, the top temperatures towards Wales in the southwest,
00:42and fairly widely high teens, low 20s, but on that east coast it's going to feel a lot cooler with temperatures in the low teens more likely.
00:52And then once the sun goes down, the low cloud in the east will tend to creep back inland.
00:56And it'll struggle to get over the Pennines, breaking up a little, so more patchy across northwest England, southwest Scotland into east Wales and the southwest,
01:05but certainly a fair amount of cloud appearing overnight.
01:09Under the cloudy skies, 9 or 10 Celsius, but where we do keep the clear spells, western Scotland, northern Ireland, west Wales and the southwest,
01:15more like the mid-single figures, so a cold start in places.
01:20First thing this weekend, plenty of sunshine nevertheless for northern Ireland, western Scotland, west Wales into Cornwall.
01:26The thick cloud elsewhere will give a few spots of drizzle across some of the eastern parts of the Pennines,
01:32North York Moors for example, before it then tends to retreat back to the coast,
01:36although some patches will remain, I suspect, and there's a little bit of uncertainty once again about the extent to which the low cloud will return to the east coast.
01:46And as we go into the afternoon, plenty of sunny skies return widely, just some patches of cloud here and there,
01:53but otherwise it's going to be a pleasant enough afternoon, again 20, 21, 22 Celsius in places,
02:00but again that cool breeze coming down the North Sea to affect coastal parts of England and Scotland.
02:08Then on Saturday night, it's likely that we'll see a repeat performance,
02:12areas of low cloud in the North Sea coming inland to an uncertain extent I would say,
02:18and then on Sunday retreating back towards the east coast, but it stays dry, it stays settled throughout the weekend
02:26and there will be plenty of sunshine away from that east coast.
02:31We keep high pressure into the start of next week, but there will be a few showers around on Monday and Tuesday
02:36before a more definitive change at the end of next week.
02:40Bye-bye.