Weekend weather - Rain, wind, large waves 26/09/19
An unsettled, autumnal weekend’s expected, especially for parts of Wales and England with heavy rain, strong winds, coastal gales and large waves. But there will also be some interludes of fine weather – find out when and where with Met Office meteor
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00:00Hello, and welcome to the Met Office forecast for the weekend. An action-packed weekend
00:05of autumnal weather coming up. Lots going on. There will certainly be rain at times,
00:10some places particularly wet, and it will be windy, especially for Wales and England
00:16in locations around coastal areas, risk of gales, and those gales likely to coincide
00:22in some places with high astronomical tides. So that brings the threat of some particularly
00:29big waves. You can see the isobars as we start off the weekend fairly tightly packed
00:33across England and Wales. Risk winds here, but for Scotland and Northern Ireland, a slow-moving
00:38area of low pressure and slow-moving showers. Actually, for much of central and northern
00:44Scotland, it's a dry and bright start, albeit with a chill in the air. For the Northern
00:48Isles, some persistent wet weather, and that pushes into Caithness and the far north-east
00:52of Aberdeenshire through Saturday. Otherwise, across Northern Ireland into northern and
00:57western England as well as Wales. Showers coming through, and then they move their way
01:00eastwards by Saturday afternoon. Some heavy downpours out there, but a brisk breeze carries
01:05them through. 30, 40-mile-per-hour gusts around southern and western coasts. Feeling cool
01:10with that breeze, but it turns even windier and cloudier later Saturday as this low starts
01:16to move in. This low actually deepens as it crosses the country on Saturday night, and
01:21that brings some uncertainty to the forecast in terms of its exact depth by the time we
01:26get to late Sunday. More on that and why it's important in a moment, but certainly
01:31it's going to bring some wet weather initially on Saturday night into northern and western
01:35England as well as Wales. Over the hills, Wales, south Pennines, in these locations
01:40will already have seen quite a number of showers over the next few days, and 30 to 40 miles
01:46in just a few hours on Saturday night could bring some flooding impacts. Yellow warning
01:51in force. The wet weather sweeps across much of England and Wales, as well as Northern
01:55Ireland on Saturday night. By Sunday morning, some uncertainty in terms of how far north
02:01it goes across southern and central Scotland, whether it affects the central belt as we
02:05start the day or not. That's open to doubt. Otherwise, the rain gets replaced by showers
02:10across much of England and Wales, and the winds a key feature by this stage. Saturday
02:15night into the first part of Sunday across the coastal parts of Wales and southern England.
02:2150 mph gusts coinciding early on with high tides could bring some impacts to coastal
02:27areas, so big waves, spray, overtopping waves, that sort of thing. Some brighter skies as
02:34the main area of rain moves through, but potential for some torrential showers to develop across
02:39eastern England into Sunday afternoon. That's certainly something we'll be watching closely.
02:44The rain persistent there across northern England and the far south of Scotland, but
02:48the north of Scotland sees brighter skies and a few showers come in on a cool northerly.
02:53And it's that northerly that could cause us problems later Sunday, because as this low
02:58moves away, remember it's potentially still deepening at this stage, well it's likely
03:04to bring a swathe of strong winds all the way from the north of Scotland into the North
03:08Sea coast of England. And, depending on the exact depth of that low, well these winds
03:13could cause problems. Again, coastal gales possible, and coinciding with those high tides
03:20there is the risk of coastal impacts with big waves and spray and so on. But still some
03:26days away, so the exact details of how this low will behave and the strength of the winds
03:31and the coastal impacts, still some uncertainty there. Otherwise clearing skies behind that,
03:36there is some improvement in the weather there for the start of next week, but certainly
03:41before we get there, lots to talk about for this weekend. The winds, a key feature for
03:46southern and eastern Britain, and the coastal impacts as well, worth keeping an eye on.
03:51Not to mention the rainfall. Wales and the South Pennines, yellow warning there for some
03:56heavy rainfall and the risk of flooding. So lots to keep an eye on over the next couple
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04:05Bye bye.