Saturday morning forecast 16/07/22
16 July – National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin
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00:00Hello, welcome to our national weather forecast.
00:03We are expecting extreme heat across the UK
00:06through the early part of next week.
00:07We have issued a red weather warning.
00:10This heat is unprecedented, potentially
00:13causing widespread health and infrastructure issues.
00:16It's all to do with high pressure that's
00:18moving in through the weekend, but then
00:20kind of edging away into the early part of next week.
00:22And as it does so, it allows the heat
00:24to be drawn up from the south.
00:27How high are those temperatures going to get?
00:29Well, easily into the mid to high 30s,
00:31and possibly across parts of eastern England,
00:34we might get up to 40 degrees Celsius.
00:36That would be a record for the UK.
00:39But the heat will be extending further north as well.
00:42So we have warnings in place, that red warning
00:44I mentioned, across a good part of England,
00:47certainly including many of the major populated areas,
00:50but also the amber warning that was been issued a few days ago.
00:54And we now have an extension into parts
00:56of Wales and southern Scotland in these areas
00:59temperatures are going to be extreme.
01:01As I said, potentially causing disruption, power issues,
01:05along with those health concerns.
01:07There's a lot of advice on the Met Office website
01:10and the NHS website about how to try and stay cool
01:13during these very hot times.
01:16During Friday evening, it's far from hot actually,
01:19a pretty cool night to come.
01:20One or two showers across the northeast of England.
01:22They're fading away, a bit of patchy rain
01:25just trickling back into the far northwest.
01:27But for most, a dry night, a clear night,
01:29certainly compared to earlier in the week,
01:31pretty cool night, single figures in some rural areas.
01:35As we go through Saturday, well, for most,
01:37it's just a fine summer's day.
01:39Yes, we'll start off with cloud and rain
01:40across Caithness, Sutherland and Orkney,
01:42that'll spread up towards Shetland.
01:44One or two showers across the Highlands
01:45and the Western Isles.
01:46But for most places, it's a dry day with plenty of sunshine.
01:50It will cloud over come the afternoon for Northern Ireland,
01:53with a bit of rain trickling in here.
01:55Temperatures, well, a little bit above average,
01:57pleasantly warm, I suppose you'd generally describe it
02:00with temperatures into the low 20s further north,
02:03whereas mid to maybe high 20s further south.
02:06But those temperatures are going to rise.
02:09We'll see a bit more of that rain
02:10spilling into Scotland and Northern Ireland
02:12on Saturday evening.
02:13But for most of England and Wales,
02:14a balmy summer's evening to come.
02:17Overnight, that rain will maybe push away
02:19from Northern Ireland, but we'll keep some outbreaks
02:21going across parts of Scotland.
02:23Again, for England and Wales, it's dry,
02:25but it is getting warmer,
02:27and it's not just those daytime temperatures
02:29we're concerned about.
02:30The nighttime temperatures will be ticking up
02:33over the coming nights also.
02:34And again, that creates health problems
02:37because the body just doesn't have that time to recover.
02:40Sunday starts dull and damp across a good part of Scotland,
02:42but the rain soon pulls away,
02:44brightening up through the central belt
02:45and across the south.
02:46Sunny spells for Northern Ireland,
02:48plenty more sunshine, strong sunshine
02:51for England and Wales.
02:52UV levels will be high this weekend
02:54and temperatures will be getting higher Sunday.
02:57We're back up over 30 degrees Celsius,
03:00Northern Ireland, southern Scotland,
03:01back into the mid-20s and continuing to rise
03:05as we go through the early part of next week.
03:08That's when we're concerned about the extreme heat.
03:10Temperatures we've never seen before across the UK
03:13with 40 Celsius possible, particularly on Tuesday.
03:18Please keep up to date with forecasts
03:21and the latest advice from the Met Office
03:24and from the NHS and the government in general.
03:27As I said, these are unprecedented times
03:30with these temperatures,
03:31so it could have potentially very serious issues.
03:34The best way to keep up to date with all the latest
03:36is to make sure you're following the Met Office
03:38across social media.