The high pressure system remains over the UK in the evening and into the morning. Most parts will be dry and clear for most of the night. Cloud will thicken overnight in the north and north west of Scotland, bringing some patchy rain and drizzle. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 16/09/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern
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00:00Hi there. It may have taken until mid-September, but higher pressure is here and it's here
00:06to stay for more than a couple of days, leading to widely settled and, for many, sunny skies.
00:13One exception overnight will be across the north and north-west of Scotland, where the
00:17cloud will thicken, it will lower, it will be gloomy, fairly misty and some patchy rain
00:22and drizzle will turn up across Skye, Lewis, Harris and later on Shetland. It will turn
00:28breezy here as well, so of course that's going to keep the temperatures from falling
00:31too far. A mild night in the far north-west, a much colder night further south, where towns
00:37and cities, eight or nine Celsius under clear skies, but in some sheltered rural spots as
00:42low as two to four Celsius and cold enough in one or two locations for a mist or fog
00:48patch. But they won't last long. Under higher pressure, the mist and fog will clear through
00:53the morning and we'll see another largely sunny day up and down the country. But once
00:58again, this front just dangling into the north and north-west of Scotland will bring that
01:03thicker cloud first thing and some light outbreaks of rain and drizzle. However, through the
01:08day, around that area of high pressure, the winds will push the cloud out of the way and
01:15we'll see warmer and brighter weather spread north across much of Scotland. So, by the
01:20afternoon, as you can see, most of the UK seeing cloud-free skies. Yeah, there'll be
01:25some patchy cloud coming into the east coast there and there'll still be some lingering
01:28cloud in the far north. But in between, warm sunny spells, temperatures typically reaching
01:3419 to 22 Celsius, could get as high as the mid-20s somewhere in the north-east of Scotland
01:41as the wind warms up and dries out over the hills to the south. Then the cloud continues
01:47to thin in the far north, pushed away by the winds coming in from the south and south-east.
01:53But at the other end of the country, there will be some cloud arriving from the North
01:57Sea into the east of England and then through the night, parts of the Midlands, perhaps
02:00east Wales as well. Ahead of that, a few mist and fog patches once again in the north and
02:05west under clear skies and it'll be in the north and west where we see the lowest temperatures.
02:11Most places 9 to 12 Celsius, but in some sheltered and particularly low-lying spots,
02:17we'll see the low to mid-single figures. Actually, it's over hills and mountains where we'll
02:23see higher temperatures because there'll be an inversion where the temperature tends to
02:27rise instead of fall as you go higher up in the sky. That's typical under an area of higher
02:32pressure and it's higher pressure in place as we start off Wednesday. Yeah, there'll
02:38be some cloud around, especially through the Midlands and eastern parts of England.
02:41Much of that will thin and retreat back to the North Sea coast through the day and then
02:46beautiful sunny skies for the vast majority and a stark contrast for the far north of
02:52Scotland where it'll be blue skies rather than grey on Wednesday. As a result, a warmer
02:56day to come for many, temperatures up into the low 20s widely and again, mid-20s possible
03:02in some favoured locations. Into the rest of the week on Thursday and into Friday, we
03:08keep higher pressure nearby, but increasingly on Friday and the weekend, chances of some
03:13showers developing.