An unsettled start to the working week as Storm Debi brings heavy rain and strong winds overnight and into Monday, some coastal gales possible and strong winds inland in northwest England. Warnings are in force. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 12/11/23. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Jonathan Vautrey.
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00:00 Hello there. Many of us will be waking up to a very unsettled start to the new working
00:04 week all courtesy of Storm Debbie that has been named by Met Air and the Irish Weather
00:08 Service. It's this area of low pressure that will very quickly deepen overnight, those
00:12 ice bars really squeezing together, providing this wave of gales severe for a time along
00:17 coastal areas of the Irish Sea, spreading its way into parts of Northern Ireland, Northern
00:20 Wales and into Northern England as well. These darkest colours here indicating that we've
00:25 got the potential for 80 mile an hour gusts of wind around some coastal areas, perhaps
00:29 even over the Pennines for a time during the morning and even other inland areas of Northern
00:34 England, North Wales, South East Northern Ireland have the potential to see 55 to 65
00:38 mile an hour gusts of wind as well. So please do take care. Some significant disruption
00:42 is possible during the day with flying debris in places, very large waves around coastal
00:48 areas and disruption to transport and infrastructure. It's not just the strong winds that will provide
00:53 the disruption. Some heavy rainfall is also coming in association with Storm Debbie.
00:58 Across Sunday evening, though, we've got some lighter, patchier rainfall across parts of
01:02 Northern England, spreading its way into Scotland as we head later on in the night. But it's
01:07 here in the southwest that we see the rainfall associated with Storm Debbie beginning to
01:10 arrive into England, Wales turning heavy, but particularly persistent for Northern Ireland
01:15 in the second half of the night. And here we could potentially see some flooding issues
01:19 as we head towards dawn on Monday morning. With all the rain and the cloud moving its
01:23 way in, it's not going to be too chilly of a night for most of us, generally holding
01:26 up around six to nine degrees Celsius. But where the winds are just a touch lighter,
01:31 some clearer spells across parts of northern Scotland, a very patchy frost is possible
01:35 in the sheltered rural glens. But please do be prepared for a very disruptive morning
01:40 rush hour period with those significantly strong winds, severe gales around the Irish
01:45 Sea coast pushing into northern areas of England and Wales and also a lot of spray on roads
01:50 due to this heavy rainfall that will be pushing its way in across Northern Ireland, parts
01:54 of Wales, Northern England and then eventually into Scotland later on in the day. As it does
01:59 arrive, it will be eastern Scotland that becomes a particular focus again for flooding issues,
02:03 where we see easterly winds moving around the northern edge of Storm Debbie, pushing
02:07 in that rainfall persistently over the course of the day. 30 to 50 millimetres of rain is
02:11 possible here. The southern central areas of England and Wales, some brighter spells
02:15 of early and perhaps even into south eastern areas of Northern Ireland later on as well.
02:20 There's still some quite blustery winds around over the course of the day, so that will just
02:24 take the edge off the feel of things. But on the thermometer, at least temperatures
02:27 slightly milder with 15 to 16 degrees Celsius possible underneath the more persistent cloud
02:32 of rain for Scotland and northern England, only around 10 degrees Celsius. Storm Debbie
02:38 will eventually clear its way off as we head into Monday evening, pushing its way into
02:42 the North Sea. That will take most of those strongest winds and the heaviest rainfall
02:46 with it. So things calming down ever so slightly, but still quite an unsettled night. We'll
02:51 start to see showers pushing their way in from the west. Some of those could turn heavy
02:55 for a time. Quite a lot of clouds still across northern areas of England and Scotland, but
02:59 some clearer spells across central southern areas of England and Wales. Temperatures still
03:04 holding up around 6 to 10 degrees Celsius for most of us with those showers and the
03:08 cloud still hanging around. Tuesday then turns into a day of showers for the vast majority
03:14 of the UK. They'll be most frequent in the west, again heavy at times with some thunderstorms,
03:19 hail in the mixture also. Again, it will be the northern half that sees most of the cloud
03:25 over the course of the day. You might start to see some sunnier breaks developing in between
03:28 those showers across southern areas, maybe even into parts of northern Ireland later
03:32 in the afternoon as well. But still quite an unsettled, changeable day for a lot of
03:36 us. Temperatures on the board around 9 to 14 degrees Celsius, but still quite breezy
03:42 for a lot of us. So again, just taking the edge off the feel of things, feeling cool
03:46 if you are exposed to some of those more blustery conditions. Do please stay up to date with
03:51 the forecast. We'll have plenty of updates on our social media channels in regards to
03:55 Storm Debbie and further unsettled weather is likely to occur during the second half
03:59 of the week as well. So we'll provide regular detail on that and subscribe to YouTube for
04:04 all the latest updates as well. See you again soon. Bye bye.
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