High pressure keeping things settled in the north whilst low pressure brings more unsettled conditions in the south with a yellow warning in place for thunderstorms. A fine day for northern and western Scotland, and sunny spells developing for Northern Ireland and northwest England. Staying cloudy for eastern Scotland and northeast England. Scattered thunderstorms and showers affecting central and southern parts of England and Wales, bringing a risk of heavy downpours and hail. Best of sunny spells to the southeast - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 21/09/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Jonathan Vautrey.
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00:00Hello there, good afternoon. It is somewhat mixed fortunes across the UK today in terms
00:05of our weather, with two pressure systems affecting us. It's high pressure in the north,
00:09keeping things a bit more settled, but low pressure is increasingly moving its way into
00:13the south to provide a slightly more unsettled theme over the next couple of days. For Scotland
00:18at least, with high pressure in charge, a fine day for the Highlands. Argyll and Bute,
00:21a lot of sunshine, clouds still looming though through the central belt and along those eastern
00:25coastal regions. A few sunny spells should hopefully emerge for Northern Ireland, parts
00:28of north-west England as well, but you'll see those showers starting to move their way
00:32in for Wales, central south-western areas of England. These graphics, not to be taken
00:36too literally, they will be scattered in nature, so not everyone will see the thunderstorms,
00:40but there is a warning in force throughout the rest of the day because where they do
00:43occur, we could see some torrential downpours of rain, hail, frequent lightning as well,
00:48so some travel disruption is possible and it's worth staying up to date with the forecast.
00:52You can also use the radar feature in the Met Office app to track any showers and thunderstorms
00:56as they develop during the day. If you manage to dodge the showers though, there will still
01:00be some decent sunny spells for central south-eastern areas, and so temperatures here climbing towards
01:0525 degrees Celsius. 20 degrees Celsius is also possible for the likes of Oban and other
01:10areas of north-west Scotland, where we see a lot of sunshine during today. That cloud
01:15along eastern coastal areas though will keep it a bit cooler, 13-12 degrees Celsius here,
01:20and it will start to ingress a bit more inland as we head throughout this evening, spreading
01:23its way back in, but far north-west of Scotland again, staying relatively clear. Into the
01:27evening though, those showers will push their way in across Wales, might clip the far south
01:32of Northern Ireland even, before we see another pulse of thundery rain moving its way in across
01:37the Channel Islands and then into southern areas of England come dawn tomorrow morning.
01:42Quite a muggy, mild night for a lot of us, temperatures not dropping much below 13-16
01:47degrees Celsius, but it'll be cooler again in those rural spots of north-west Scotland,
01:52particularly in those sheltered valleys, we might even see a little touch of air frost
01:55there. For Scotland and Northern Ireland, even into
01:59Northern England, Sunday is a relatively similar day. Again, the best of the sunshine will
02:02be further towards the west, whereas that cloud will try and burn its way back towards
02:06eastern coastal areas again, but could produce the odd spot of drizzle. For the south though,
02:10it is this band of thundery rain that will push its way steadily northwards, again turning
02:14very wet for Wales, central southern areas of England. Further disruption is possible
02:18with this rain already falling in places that have seen quite a lot of rainfall over
02:22the past couple of days. Still quite muggy and humid in amongst all of this, temperatures
02:26a little down, but still around 20-21 degrees Celsius, and still feeling pretty warm in
02:31that sunshine across north-western Scotland. Quite cool though, across those eastern coasts
02:36of Scotland and north-east England. This rain will linger across Wales and stall
02:40a bit into the Midlands as well as we head into Sunday evening, but it should eventually
02:45gradually move its way eastwards as we head during the day on Monday. And into the new
02:50working week, things are generally still staying on the slightly unsettled side. Tuesday could
02:55be a bit of a calmer day for many of us. Wednesday though, and into the midweek, is certainly
02:59looking increasingly wet and windy. But as we do head into the new week, temperatures
03:04are going to be dropping down a bit. For all of us, it is certainly going to be turning
03:07cooler over the next few days. There'll be plenty more updates on that across our YouTube
03:12channels, so make sure you are subscribed and ready for all of those. Otherwise, we'll
03:17see you again here very soon. Bye bye.