Outbreaks of rain across Scotland and the west of the country continue through the morning, with a few showers further east. The intensity of the rain weakens through the day as it moves south and eastwards, leaving brighter, showery conditions across Scotland and Northern Ireland as the rain becomes confined to the south east of England.- This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the morning of 22/08/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Clare Nasir.
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00:00A very good morning to you on this Thursday morning. It's a lively start to the day with
00:05rain and wind warnings in force. Let me take you through the details of that first. Now
00:10cumulatively over the last, well, 12 to 24 hours we've seen up to around 75 millimetres.
00:16That could be topped up through the next few hours a little bit higher here. And then a
00:19wind warning across central and southern parts of Scotland and north-west England. It's windy
00:24here with gales and gusts inland associated with this cold front up to around 50 miles
00:28an hour along the coastline up to 60 miles an hour. But it will improve. The winds will
00:33lose their sting. However, first thing, if you are stepping out, you're going to run
00:37into some rain away from the Western Isles across most of Scotland down towards northern
00:42England, particularly towards the north-west there, Cumbria, Lancashire, also Liverpool
00:46Bay, Merseyside. Brighter skies emerging already though across Northern Ireland come 7am this
00:51morning. We hang on to some rain across the far south-east. And it's a windy start without
00:56bricks of rain for western parts of Wales as well as the West Country. Filaments of
01:00rain just clipping the Midlands, eastern counters of England. Brighter skies towards the south-east
01:04but it is a breezy morning. So as we start the day, we watch as this band of rain here
01:10with its back edge just clearing the north-west, slowly pushing down towards central and eastern
01:17areas of England. Now we lose the intensity of the rain through the morning and we gain
01:22some sunshine across Scotland. Northern England through around lunchtime seeing that sun come
01:27out and Wales through the afternoon. Eventually the West Country also seeing some sunny spells
01:33as we see the rain, which will be patchy by this point, becoming confined to the south-east.
01:37East Anglia seeing more in the way of clouds and perhaps a few showers for Lincolnshire.
01:41But a brighter end to the day. Windy in the north-west of Scotland with a few showers
01:46but more rain waiting in the wings across Ireland. Before that though, temperatures
01:4916, 17 in the north, 20 to 21 further south and east. And it will be windy as we head
01:55into evening time across these parts. Now through Thursday evening, still some showers
02:01in the north. They could be heavy but they'll be scattered. And drier skies with some late
02:06sunshine. The central belt, eastern counters. Notice more cloud nudging up across southern
02:10parts of Northern Ireland and rain slowly moving across the Irish Sea towards Wales
02:16as we head through evening time. Elsewhere, a pleasant evening to come and that sun will
02:21actually make a difference after a bit of a wet afternoon across eastern counters. But
02:26more rain waiting in the wings and notice through Thursday evening, this evening it's
02:31pushing ever northwards as well as eastwards. We won't see the rain across the far north-west
02:37of Scotland but some showers here. The rain will intensify with strong winds if not gales
02:42across Irish Sea, particularly as we head into the early hours of Friday morning. And
02:47that swirl of cloud and rain then makes inroads towards eastern counters through the first
02:52part of the day before clearing. We'll see the clearance coming through across the far
02:56south-east around lunchtime on Friday into the afternoon. Sunshine then will emerge as
03:01scattering of showers in the north. We lose the winds across eastern counters. We gain
03:05some brighter weather and here's your outlook through Saturday. So it will be windy in the
03:10north-west on Saturday. Sunshine and showers elsewhere. Temperatures just below par in
03:15terms of seasonal average and then come Sunday, fine and dry across more central and southern
03:19areas and we continue to see those showers across the north as well as the north-west.
03:24Temperatures typically 16 or 17. Wherever you are, take care and I'll see you again
03:28soon.