Showers and rain persist across parts of Scotland and northern England through the morning. Some patchy rain across southern England with a band of rain slowly moving east and northwards, from the far east of Northern Ireland across Wales and central England through the day. Some brighter spells will develop across southern areas of England and parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland through the day. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the morning of 20/03/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Clare Nasir.
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00:00 Hello there, welcome to your Wednesday morning weather update from the Met Office.
00:04 It's the 20th of March. Now through today, cloudy for most away from the northwest.
00:09 We'll see some outbreaks of rain as well. The rain will weaken through the afternoon
00:13 as it slowly pushes towards the North Sea and the Low Countries.
00:17 And then quieter weather into Wednesday night before wet and windy weather
00:21 arrives from the northwest on Thursday. For the time being, a little showery rain
00:27 can't be ruled out across northern Scotland. Cloudy with some patchy rain and drizzle
00:31 for Aberdeenshire and Angus. Now across more southern parts of Scotland,
00:35 that's outbreaks of rain which could be persistent, particularly across Tyne and Wynne,
00:39 Northumberland towards Cumbria. Rain across the far southeast of Northern Ireland.
00:43 So for the likes of Fermanagh as well as Tyrone, you could get away with a bright start.
00:48 The rain could be quite persistent across western parts of Wales and it will extend
00:52 towards mid Wales through the day. Some patchy rain where the cloud is thick enough
00:56 across central southern England, East Anglia as well as Lincolnshire.
00:59 But here the rain will always be patchy and there will be cloud breaks allowing
01:03 for some brighter weather. So through this morning, we watch as this band of clouds
01:09 and rain continues in this position. Now the rain could pep up again across
01:13 the northwest of England through the morning, also extending down towards Wales.
01:19 The rain comes and goes across northern counties of England and notice towards
01:22 the south a little bit of showery rain but the cloud will break, some sunshine.
01:26 Sunshine extends across the whole of Northern Ireland, central and western areas
01:30 of Scotland through the afternoon, feeling warm in that sun. But along this east coast
01:34 with an onshore breeze feeling cold, 8 or 9 degrees Celsius and rather damp here as well.
01:39 We could squeeze an 18 down towards the southeast, a warm end to the day,
01:43 helped with a little bit of mid-March sunshine. Now through Wednesday evening
01:48 and overnight, any rain tends to dry up and then where we see clearer skies,
01:53 we could see a touch of frost before more cloud arrives around midnight
01:57 and then outbreaks of rain across Northern Ireland and western Scotland
02:00 to start the day on Thursday. Elsewhere, yes it's a quiet end to the night.
02:06 Temperatures a bit lower than what they have been, 6 to 8 degrees Celsius chilly
02:09 across eastern Scotland and again thicker clouds here in the odd spot or two of rain.
02:14 So it's a wet and windy morning across much of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
02:18 This bank of cloud and rain extends southwards and eastwards through the day.
02:22 Winds will be a feature as well, particularly across Scotland where we could see gusts
02:26 in excess of 50 miles an hour and the air turns colder, pushing ever southeastwards.
02:31 So through Thursday morning, mostly dry from Yorkshire southwards, much of Wales,
02:35 away from the far north-west, Ireland seeing some rain through the morning
02:38 and this is the back edge to that cold front and the winds will pick up further here
02:42 as that rain all spreads across Scotland and some patchy rain for Northern England as well.
02:47 One or two filaments could extend down as far south as Lincolnshire,
02:51 but to the south of that we will see some broken clouds and some sunshine
02:54 and yet again temperatures on the up, 15, 16, 17 degrees Celsius colder in the north-west
03:00 and that pretty much sets the scene for Friday as well as the weekend
03:03 with blustery showers but also a little sunshine.
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