Friday morning forecast 20/05/22

20 May – National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

Transcript

00:00Hi there. Bright spells and showers remain the theme during the next few days but Thursday

00:06night at least starts off largely dry with clear spells particularly across southern

00:11Scotland, much of England, Wales and eastern Scotland. Now for western Scotland, Northern

00:16Ireland, thicker cloud coming and going at times. The showers, well ebbing and flowing

00:21I think through much of the night they stay away but they will reappear into the Western

00:26Isles by the end of the night, particularly the far north-west of Scotland. Breezy here,

00:31lighter winds elsewhere and the cloud thickens from the south as the night goes on. Eleven

00:36or twelve degrees the overnight low in the south, eight or nine in places further north.

00:42Now we're going to see these weather fronts take over during Friday, they'll bring showery

00:47rain but ahead of them another plume of fairly unstable weather across the continent and

00:54just like a night or two ago we're going to see some very heavy rain affecting the

00:59continent with some lively thunderstorms but we're just on the northern extent of that

01:03and it's most likely to be light rain for the most part but could see some heavier bursts

01:08towards the south-east depending on how close those thunderstorms get. The real thunder

01:12activity though largely staying away and then further showers push on for the rest of the

01:17UK and perhaps some longer spells of rain into western Scotland as well as north-west

01:22England by the end of the afternoon. It's a cool day with temperatures of 19 degrees

01:26in London, 16, 17 elsewhere and some persistent wet weather pushing through Scotland, northern

01:31England for the evening rush hour, clearing out the way then for the evening and then

01:36well still some showers for western Scotland but for many it's a clear night, patchy cloud,

01:42western areas, clear spells further east and temperatures similar compared to Thursday

01:49night. A bright start though for Saturday, plenty of sunshine for central and eastern

01:53parts of the UK. The cloud quite quickly builds and fills and by the afternoon many places

02:00will see a mixture of bright spells, cloudy conditions and some sun poking through. The

02:07cloud could give one or two showers for say parts of Wales and the south-west, the Midlands

02:11but most of the shower activity once again, western parts and central parts of Scotland

02:16where it will be pretty cloudy through the day. Temperatures up to 21 degrees in London

02:21but most other places 15 to 17 degrees. And then we start off Sunday with outbreaks of

02:28rain crossing the north, turning to showers and there will be further sunny spells in

02:33between those showers. Bye bye.