A high pressure system remains across the UK for most of the afternoon resulting in dry, bright and clear weather for most. Temperatures will be warm with some low cloud expected in Scotland later in the afternoon. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 16/09/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.
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00:00Hi there, the weather settles down this week for the whole of the UK with high pressure
00:06building in leading to weather fronts and low pressure systems being deflected well
00:11to the north of the UK. This is the low pressure that brought some mixed weather over the weekend
00:15to the north. It's associated cold front, a weaker fare, moving south, clearing the
00:19cloud across the south and southwest although it will take some time for parts of Devon
00:24and Cornwall to turn sunnier into the afternoon. Nevertheless, once that happens for the vast
00:28majority, it's a dry and bright afternoon and there will be some high and medium cloud
00:34about but for most it's light winds, it's sunny spells and it's going to feel warm in
00:40the sunny spells certainly compared with the cold weather that we ended last week with
00:4522-23C in the south, mid to high teens further north and west. Nevertheless, by the end of
00:53the afternoon we will see some lower cloud arriving into the Outer Hebrides and that
00:57will affect much of western Scotland and the far north by the evening with some light
01:03outbreaks of rain and drizzle pushing in as well. Shetland sees that after midnight for
01:08example. The breeze picks up here so with the breeze and the cloud it's going to stay
01:13mild in the far northwest overnight but further south where we've got the clear skies, temperatures
01:18will fall and in some places a few patchy mist and fog areas will form, particularly
01:24Vale of York, Trent Valley for example, Welsh Marches but elsewhere where we've got the
01:29clear spells, temperatures dipping to 8 or 9C in main urban areas, 2-4C in some sheltered
01:35spots. So a few mist and fog patches first thing across England and Wales, they'll soon
01:39clear leading to blue skies widely. Meanwhile, the low cloud across the north and northwest
01:44of Scotland will tend to push away to the far north as the day progresses although it
01:50stays largely cloudy for the Northern Isles, Lewis and Harris for example. Some broken
01:56cloud in the far north of Scotland and with a slight adjustment in the wind direction,
02:00the winds coming in from the south and southwest for northeast Scotland, some fern assisted
02:08temperatures will turn up and as a result low to mid-20s for the far northeast of Scotland
02:15but elsewhere, high teens, low 20s, similar to Monday afternoon's highs and plenty of
02:23sunshine as we end Tuesday afternoon up and down the country with the exception of the
02:27far north and northwest, again a few spots of light rain and drizzle for Shetland for
02:31example and as the night progresses we'll see a bit of a breeze coming in from the North
02:36Sea and that will allow some low cloud to move in across East Anglia and the southeast
02:41and that coming into central and southern parts of England overnight but it will push
02:46back during the day on Wednesday with higher pressure setting up over Scandinavia and this
02:52easterly airflow. That means that by Thursday the highest temperatures across the country
02:56will be in the west of Scotland, northwest England, southwest England and west Wales
03:01for example with a cooler breeze down those North Sea coast and some patchy cloud at times
03:07but with high pressure in charge, it's going to be a prolonged settle spell at least for
03:11Monday to Thursday before some showers turn up as we end the week. Bye bye.