Weekend weather – A cold one with further rain & some hill snow 07/11/19
The weekend will start cold with a frost for many. As further rain arrives from the west it could turn to snow on some hills, although there’s a fair bit of uncertainty about how much. Alex Deakin has the latest.
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00:00Welcome to your weekend weather
00:02forecast from the Met Office.
00:03It's going to be cold this weekend.
00:05And yes, there is more rain to come.
00:08Cold enough so that that rain actually
00:10will bring a bit of hill snow in places,
00:12particularly so on Saturday.
00:14That's an area we're keeping a close eye on.
00:16There's quite a bit of uncertainty about that.
00:18But it does look as if certainly western areas
00:20should at least be a little bit drier and brighter on Sunday.
00:24Here's the bigger picture.
00:25Warm weather system is pulling away.
00:27A little ridge of high pressure is trying to build in.
00:29And then there's another weather front out to the west.
00:32In between those two weather systems,
00:34colder air will be slipping southwards.
00:36So Friday night's going to be chilly,
00:38with a frost in quite a few spots.
00:41With that cold air in place, as this weather front arrives,
00:43bringing moisture, bringing rain across Northern Ireland.
00:46But hitting that colder air could
00:48start to bring some snow over the hills of Wales,
00:51especially on Saturday morning.
00:53And then as that wet weather moves its way further east,
00:56again, over hills in Northern England,
00:57possibly even parts of the Midlands,
00:59over some hills here and southern Scotland,
01:01we could see a little bit more snow.
01:04Now, as I said, there's a bit of uncertainty
01:05about the timing of this band of wet weather moving in.
01:08And that is crucial as to whether we
01:10see rain or snow on the hills.
01:13So, yes, stay tuned for updates about that.
01:15But certainly many eastern areas should
01:16have a dry and a bright start to Saturday, but it will be cold.
01:19Rain, though, does look like edging its way further east.
01:22Some scattered showers in northeast Scotland,
01:24but much of Scotland may well be dry and bright
01:27through the day.
01:27Northern Ireland staying fairly soggy.
01:29Showers coming into Wales once that rain band has moved through.
01:32Southwestern areas may turn a bit brighter with some sunshine,
01:35but there'll be showers coming in here as well.
01:37The southwest will likely see the top temperatures 10 or 11
01:40decrease, but for most we're in single figures.
01:42And stuck under that rain band, it's
01:44going to feel cold, five or six Celsius at best.
01:48That rain band is this weather front,
01:50which kind of fizzles out a little bit
01:52as we go through Saturday night and into Sunday.
01:54But still, it's low pressure dominating into Sunday,
01:57across the east.
01:58So there'll still be a lot of cloud here
02:00with the winds coming in from the North Sea, outbreaks
02:02of rain across northeast England,
02:03parts of the Midlands, ebbing away and slipping
02:06a bit further south.
02:07Further west, something a bit drier and a bit brighter
02:09on Sunday.
02:10We should see some sunshine, but again,
02:12it is going to feel cold.
02:14Temperatures struggling in single figures in many areas.
02:17Notice there's another area of rain
02:18working into the northwest later on in the day.
02:22As I said, it is going to feel cold temperatures, many places
02:24still in single figures.
02:26And again, we'll see some pockets of frost
02:28and potentially some pockets of fog in the mornings also.
02:31So yes, plenty going on.
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