Week Ahead 12/02/2024 – A mild but unsettled week- Met Office UK Weather

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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 12/02/2024.

After a sunny and chilly start, the rest of the week will bring much milder weather but also further rain for most areas at times.

Bringing you this forecast for the week ahead is Met Office meteorologist Annie Shuttleworth.
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00:00 Hello there, welcome to your latest week ahead forecast. It's been a sunny start to the week

00:04 but it will turn a bit wetter for the rest of the week but much milder. That's as this

00:09 mild Atlantic air approaches through the course of the night and we will be staying with that

00:13 mild Atlantic air through the rest of the week across much of the country. The far north

00:17 will be in that cooler air from time to time having said that though. There'll also be

00:21 a series of low pressure systems that arrive with this mild air so that will bring some

00:26 further rain through the rest of the week. However, there will be some windows of opportunity

00:31 to get out and about in some dry weather here and there so it's worth taking a look at the

00:35 details day to day. So through the course of Monday night we see that mild air arriving

00:39 from the southwest bringing with it some frontal systems as well so there'll be some rain arriving

00:44 into the southwest. Ahead of it though we've still got this blue colour, this colder air

00:48 so it will be a chilly start once again for many northern and eastern areas of the UK

00:53 but we'll see the best of any sunshine through the morning across eastern areas and then

00:57 across Scotland later on in the afternoon. Elsewhere though it will turn much cloudier

01:02 and wetter from the south and west. Many areas seeing some quite persistent rain by the time

01:06 we get to the afternoon. The rain will be heaviest across parts of Wales as well as

01:11 the coastal areas and the hills as well through the afternoon but that is being brought by

01:15 the milder air so highs of 11 or 12 degrees in the south, a little bit lower in the north

01:20 where we have got that drier and brighter weather. And then through the course of Tuesday

01:25 night into Wednesday that frontal system does push off into the east however we do then

01:30 see these occluded fronts. One drapes itself across Northern Ireland, Southern Scotland

01:34 and the other moves into southern areas of England and Wales. So that's where we'll see

01:38 the most persistent rain throughout Wednesday. In between those areas we'll see some rain

01:42 particularly through the morning. Into the afternoon though it will turn drier for many

01:45 areas but still across coastal areas and the hills in central areas of England and Wales

01:50 it will still be quite drizzly. In the far north though once again the best of any sunshine

01:55 and drier weather across the UK. Highs of 14 degrees possibly even 15 degrees on Wednesday

02:01 though despite the rain and clouds. It will be feeling very mild for the time of year

02:06 by day but also by night we should be largely frost free for many areas of England and Wales

02:12 throughout the course of the week. And then Thursday is when I think we'll see the wettest

02:16 weather of the week as this frontal system pushes up from the south. There is some uncertainty

02:21 in the exact details of when the rain will arrive and how far north it will spread but

02:25 we're expecting quite widespread rain throughout Thursday. By the time we've got to Thursday

02:30 the rain isn't particularly welcome if you're getting outside but also the ground is well

02:34 saturated so it could start to cause some flooding issues particularly across southern

02:38 areas of England and Wales. As I said there is some uncertainty with quite how far north

02:44 the rain will reach but it's likely to reach there by at least the afternoon. But it will

02:50 be another mild day with highs of 14 or 15 degrees, that's a few degrees above average

02:55 for the time of year but sunshine will still be fairly limited through much of the week.

03:00 However there is a better chance of seeing some sunshine on Friday as we get this ridge

03:04 of high pressure move in for a time as we're between weather systems. This is the weather

03:09 system from Thursday and we have this weather system that will approach by the end of Friday

03:13 but in between these two a little opportunity for some drier and brighter weather. There

03:19 will be quite a lot of cloud around still, some drizzly rain for some areas but I think

03:23 particularly for eastern areas we could see some sunshine particularly lasting through

03:28 much of the day and many areas we'll see a dry day. However that frontal system will

03:31 probably bring some wetter weather into Northern Ireland, perhaps into the south west by the

03:35 end of the day. So some details still to be ironed out before the end of the week but

03:41 into the weekend we're likely to see pressure slowly but surely starting to build from the

03:46 south and we'll stick with that milder weather so a greater chance of seeing some dry interludes

03:51 into the weekend. But it's worth keeping up to date with the details in the forecast day

03:55 to day and you can do that by downloading our app. See you later.

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Week Ahead 12/02/2024 – A mild but unsettled week- Met Office UK Weather

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