Dry with some clear spells in south and central areas of the UK overnight, but rain works its way into southern Scotland, northern England, Northern Ireland and western Wales. Further outbreaks of rain on Monday in western areas and cloudy elsewhere with some blustery winds. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 17/12/23. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Jonathan Vautrey.
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00:00 Hello there. This weekend has certainly been one of mixed fortunes across the UK. Western
00:05 Scotland in particular has been very wet with persistent heavy rainfall throughout all of
00:10 Saturday and Sunday has led to some locations seeing around 150mm of rain building up in
00:17 36 hours. That's in contrast to some eastern areas of Scotland where it has stayed relatively
00:22 dry thanks to the shelter of the mountains. And across the rest of the UK as well, some
00:26 dry conditions, even some sunny spells through central eastern areas of England on Sunday.
00:31 We'll hold on to some of those clearer spells into the evening and overnight period as well.
00:35 Southern central areas should stay largely dry but the rain will be moving its way into
00:39 Northern Ireland, Southern Scotland, North West England and Western areas of Wales. Far
00:44 North West of Scotland though where we have seen that repeated and persistent rainfall
00:47 will be turning drier with some clearer spells into the overnight period. And where you do
00:52 have those slightly clearer intervals, temperatures could just drop down into single figures,
00:56 7, 8 degrees Celsius. But underneath the most persistent cloud through the central slice
01:00 here it is going to be a mild night. Temperatures holding up in double digit figures between
01:05 10 and 12 degrees Celsius. We'll still have those outbreaks of rain to contend with then
01:10 as we start off the new working week, particularly for Western areas. The rain will be slightly
01:14 lighter and patchier forward towards the east, perhaps even some early brightness for southeastern
01:19 areas of England, though the cloud will be thickening here later on in the day. Still
01:23 quite a blustery windy day for England and Wales, but the winds will be easing out for
01:27 Northern Ireland, central areas of Scotland as the sun begins to poke its way through
01:30 the cloud into the afternoon. Though for the North West of Scotland we've got another band
01:34 of rain arriving later on. We'll see those northwesterly winds in the North West though
01:38 starting to feed in some slightly fresher conditions. So temperatures down here compared
01:43 to the weekend not seeing much higher than 9 degrees Celsius. But elsewhere underneath
01:48 the cloud and the rain, a relatively mild day. Temperatures a touch above average for
01:52 the time of year between 11 and 13 degrees Celsius. As we head into Tuesday, our attention
01:59 turns to the next set of fronts that are going to start pushing their way in from the south
02:02 west. Looking like Wales and England will bear the brunt of this and see most of the
02:07 rainfall. That rain will start arriving as we head throughout Monday evening and overnight,
02:12 along with quite extensive areas of low cloud pushing its way in could produce some fog
02:16 even to lower levels. So quite a murky, dreary and damp night to come here. For Scotland,
02:22 Northern Ireland, there will be a few showers, but some clearer spells developing and underneath
02:26 those clear skies, it will be a noticeably cooler and chillier night compared to some
02:30 recent ones down to three or five degrees Celsius. But again, further towards the south
02:35 and east where you're underneath the cloud and the rain, a relatively milder one, loads
02:39 of around 11 degrees Celsius. Quite a wet start to Tuesday across a good portion of
02:45 England and Wales. Tricky travelling conditions. First thing on the rush hour to do take care.
02:50 There will be some spray on roads. Most certainly the rain will slowly clear its way off as
02:55 we head throughout the day and behind that you'll see the sunnier, brighter skies developing
02:58 in from the north west. Scattering of showers, though they could be falling as snow and sleet
03:03 over the higher ground of Scotland and will be accompanied by some relatively blustery
03:08 winds, maybe some localised coastal gales across the north of Scotland as well. And
03:12 with that northwesterly feed of winds, we'll start to see those fresher conditions arriving
03:17 across more areas of the UK. So a lot of us starting to see that notice change in the
03:22 air. So return to some slightly cooler conditions, seven, eight, nine degrees Celsius as the
03:27 highs for a lot of us in the far south east still just about reaching double digit figures,
03:32 maybe 12, 13 degrees Celsius. It looks like that northwesterly feed of air is going to
03:39 continue as we head for the second half of the week. Those ice bars tightening at times
03:43 once again, so some gales and stronger winds around at times further frontal systems trying
03:47 to push their way into the north west, perhaps the south east staying the driest overall,
03:52 but we'll keep you up to date on all of the comings of the next week across the YouTube
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