Wednesday afternoon forecast 28/09/22

28 September - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin

Transcript

00:00Welcome along to your national weather update, a chilly feel out there again today, a mix

00:05of sunshine and showers. Some places seeing lots of showers and some places not seeing

00:10any at all. Here's the bigger picture, the view from space. There's low pressure out

00:14in the North Sea and it's spiralling and plenty of showers down the eastern side and persistent

00:19rain here just heading down across the borders through the early afternoon. That's going

00:23to turn things pretty wet over northeast England during the afternoon. Plenty of showers across

00:27Wales and southwest England but elsewhere in between these two zones, many places not

00:33seeing too many showers at all and mostly staying dry and bright. But the winds are

00:37generally feeding down from the north and so it's never a warm wind direction. Stuck

00:43under that cloud across Newcastle, going to feel pretty cold this afternoon, 11 or 12

00:47Celsius with a fairly brisk breeze. Elsewhere a bit of sunshine should just tick those temperatures

00:52up to the mid-teens, still below average for the time of year. Through the course of

00:58the evening we're going to see this rain pepping up and spiralling southwards across northern

01:01England, certainly quite wet across the M62 for a while and then that rain through the

01:05night drift across the Midlands into Wales and eventually into southern England as well.

01:11Away from that little zone of rain that spirals south, many places will have a dry night,

01:16there'll be some clear spells and still in relatively cool air. So temperatures are likely

01:20certainly across England and Wales to drop down to single figures. A fresh start then

01:24to Thursday and actually quite a damp start across parts of the south, a lot of cloud

01:29across southern England, south Wales early on. But it should be scooting away, clearing

01:34out into the Channel and then we're just left again with a mix of sunshine and showers,

01:38but not too many showers, most of them likely across to the east of the Pennines and spreading

01:44south into the Midlands. The odd one keeping going across northeast Scotland as well. Much

01:49of western Scotland, northern Ireland dry and bright and the afternoon looking fine

01:53across the south, January too. But again the breeze still coming down from the north, but

01:59not as strong the wind and feeling a little warmer I suspect, particularly across northeast

02:03England, 15 degrees here possibly and further south 17 or maybe 18 Celsius. So for many

02:10Thursday is the driest day of this fairly cool and showery week, but we're going to

02:15see a bit more of a change as we head into Friday. The showers fade out on Thursday

02:19evening, so it's going to turn quite cold on Thursday night. But up to the northwest

02:23is a fairly angry looking zone of rain. A couple of weather systems coming together,

02:29this one in particular intensifying as it comes across the UK and that's going to bring

02:34a spell of wet and increasingly windy weather. Look at those isobars pinching together as

02:38it moves through. So spell of rain crossing the country during Friday, a bright cold start

02:44across much of eastern England, but the rain will get here in the afternoon. But this is

02:47Friday morning's chart. Some heavy rain there for a while across northern Ireland, western

02:52Scotland that will spread its way eastwards during Friday afternoon and those winds picking

02:57up as well. This is the gust graphic showing the strongest winds likely to be across the

03:02northwest through the early hours of Friday morning and then increasingly across the northeast

03:07as we head into Friday afternoon. But even further south going to get pretty gusty, especially

03:12along the English Channel coasts later on on Friday. So a wet and windy spell to come

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