Weekend weather – fine for most 04/07/19
It won’t be a scorcher but it won’t be a washout either; most places will enjoy fine weather this weekend. Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern has the forecast.
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00:00Hello and welcome to the Met Office forecast for the weekend.
00:04The weather this weekend is looking, well, fine most places.
00:08Most of the time will be dry and bright.
00:10It will be fairly cloudy, especially noticeable in the south where we've had a lot of sunshine
00:15through the working week and it will cool down in the south through the weekend.
00:19Because we start off on Friday afternoon with temperatures in the high 20s across southern
00:23Britain, the cloudier skies are further north with some drips and drabs of rainfall sinking
00:28south across Scotland into northern England and Northern Ireland.
00:31Now they're associated with this cold front and it's this feature that will really dominate
00:35proceedings through the weekend.
00:37Not much rain on it but it is bringing cloudier skies further south, very slowly, and introducing
00:43cooler air to the north.
00:45So actually there will be a chill in the air first thing for sheltered parts of Scotland
00:49but here, sunshine for many.
00:52Sunny spells through the day, even where we've got a bit of cloud it's bright.
00:56With the odd shower in the far north, Northern Ireland seeing the cloudier skies brighten
01:01up through the day as well.
01:02But an area of cloud extends through central parts of England and north and mid Wales and
01:08that's where we could see a few showers, a few heavier showers first thing for northern
01:12England perhaps.
01:13But for many places it's dry and that cold front marking a boundary between the very
01:18warm air in the far south of England, so somewhere like Southampton, Isle of Wight could get
01:2326 or 27 Celsius but come a little bit further north and it's a cooler day, 18 to 21 Celsius
01:29typically.
01:30So still feeling pleasant enough in any sunnier spells across northern parts of Britain and
01:35there will be clear spells through the night, again a chilly night to come in places on
01:39Saturday night.
01:40The cold front then sinks into southern Britain and by this stage it is bringing cloudier
01:46skies to southern parts of England, south Wales as well.
01:49And these blobs of blue, well they just indicate areas that will catch the odd shower through
01:54Sunday and there will be one or two showers for Scotland and northern England.
01:59But for northern Ireland, for much of Wales into the Midlands, East Anglia, it's a day
02:03of sunny spells, a cloudier day to come for the far south and certainly a cooler one compared
02:09to Saturday's warm or hot sunshine.
02:12So most places looking at temperatures of 18 to 22 Celsius on Sunday, there will be
02:18areas of cloud especially across southern Britain making it rather grey from time to
02:22time but not much rainfall.
02:24Many places staying dry through the weekend most of the time, nothing spectacular but
02:29compared to June's downpours and blasts of heat, well it's looking like an altogether
02:35much more pleasant weekend of British summer weather.
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