Met Office Morning Weather Forecast 18/11/23 - Feeling very mild
Heavy rain especially in southwest to start, moving east through the morning. Turning dry later across most of the UK with rain lingering longest in the far east. Scotland and Northern Ireland have more showers throughout the afternoon – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the morning of 18/11/23. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
Transcript
00:00 Welcome along to what for most of us is a wet start to the weekend.
00:04 But generally, the rain is shifting away.
00:06 And for many, it'll brighten up a little bit as we go through Saturday.
00:10 The reason for the rain, not hard to spot, is a huge area of low pressure out in the Atlantic.
00:16 This will dominate our weather through the rest of the weekend as it edges closer.
00:20 Its weather fronts are moving across right now and heading out into the North Sea.
00:25 But it will still spiral bands of showers across the country as we head through tomorrow.
00:31 And the ice is squeezing together as well.
00:33 So that tells us, particularly in the South, it's going to be quite windy on Sunday, too.
00:37 Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, however.
00:40 Bring it back to the rest of today.
00:41 These weather fronts currently making for a soggy start to Saturday.
00:44 Some heavy bursts of rain, especially in the southwest.
00:47 A lot of spray and surface water on the roads here, parts of the M4 and the M5.
00:52 Heavier rain is migrating, moving its way from west to east and clearing away.
00:56 So Wales, southwest England, the Midlands should brighten up before lunchtime.
01:00 Northern and eastern England also cheering up, although it may take most of the day before the rain completely clears from Norfolk and Kent.
01:08 Scotland and Northern Ireland should also turn a little drier for a time.
01:11 But more showers coming in here through the afternoon, particularly into western Scotland.
01:15 Parts of the east may also brighten up.
01:17 Quite windy across the Northern Isles and generally a pretty breezy day for most.
01:22 That breeze will help to punch a few holes in the cloud and bring us a little bit of weak sunshine.
01:27 But it's quite mild.
01:28 Our temperatures with a bit of sunshine could easily reach 14, 15, maybe even 16 degrees Celsius.
01:34 So quite mild, although northern Scotland will stay in single figures here, particularly where it stays fairly dank.
01:40 There'll be more showers packing in across Scotland during this evening and for Northern Ireland.
01:44 In fact, for most places, after some clearer weather for a time over England and Wales, the showers return through the early hours, blown along by a brisk wind.
01:53 Notice there's the area of low pressure.
01:55 You can see it here and the winds in the south, as I mentioned, picking up through Saturday night and into Sunday.
02:02 All makes for a pretty mild start to Sunday, double digits across much of the south.
02:07 But it will be a blustery day again here, particularly on the south coast.
02:11 And those winds will be bringing lots of clouds and further showers.
02:15 It's not going to rain all day.
02:16 The rain will tend to come and go throughout something a bit drier in eastern Scotland, maybe even a bit more sunshine poking out here.
02:23 For Scotland, the winds will probably be lighter on Sunday than Saturday, but further south, the winds will be a little stronger tomorrow.
02:29 Temperatures again a touch above average, getting into the teens across the south after that mild start.
02:34 But it's not feeling all that mild.
02:36 You're exposed to that gusty wind.
02:39 As we go through Sunday evening, we'll continue to see plenty of showers.
02:42 But into next week, there are signs of high pressure heading in, which should bring something a bit drier for most of us.
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