Tuesday morning forecast 22/03/22

22 March - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

Transcript

00:00Hello and welcome to the latest national weather forecast from the Met Office. It's been another

00:05fine day across much of the UK and there will be more spring sunshine to come during the

00:10rest of the week. High pressure close to the east then becomes increasingly centred over

00:15the UK from Wednesday into Thursday and Friday and that high pressure isn't going anywhere

00:22for the foreseeable so for the next seven days at least it's going to continue to bring

00:26plenty of warm sunshine. Having said that, variable amounts of cloud will drift across

00:33the country through the evening and overnight, initially from the west and then another area

00:37of medium cloud coming up from the south. Now, any of these medium level clouds could

00:43bring a few light showers but, well, for the vast majority it's a dry night so there will

00:49be clear spells on and off. The clearest sky is northern Scotland where temperatures could

00:53dip to minus three Celsius but where we've got the cloudier conditions it's going to

00:58be frost free. A fresh start or a chilly start in place is on Tuesday morning. You'll see

01:03that cloud across central areas moving south and a few spots of rain associated with it

01:08but it tends to fizzle away by the afternoon, perhaps reforming to give a few showers across

01:14northern England and southern Scotland later in the day. But otherwise, away from that

01:18area, plenty of sunshine and in western parts a sunnier day compared to Monday. Temperatures

01:23reaching 16 to 18 Celsius quite widely from central Scotland down to the south of England

01:29could see 19 to 20 Celsius in London or Cambridge for example. The far north, Shetland, staying

01:36cold with a brisk breeze off the North Sea but for most those temperatures are well above

01:41average for the time of year. Into the evening then and clear skies for the vast majority

01:45and as a result we'll see another chilly start to Wednesday. I think temperatures in

01:51urban areas, low single figures, in the countryside dipping just below freezing. So a touch of

01:56frost around, a few fog patches in places predominantly northeast and eastern England

02:02but that high pressure, well keeping things fine, keeping weather fronts at bay for the

02:06time being and Wednesday looks like a much more extensively sunny day once any of those

02:11fog patches have lifted. Up and down the country it looks like blue skies will prevail.

02:17Just a few shower clouds perhaps bubbling up across east Anglia and the southeast by

02:23the end of the afternoon. So the odd shower is possible here but really the exception

02:29rather than the rule. For the vast majority it's sunny and it's warm again, 19 Celsius

02:34the top temperature, 17 for Glasgow, 15 for Aberdeen. Into Wednesday evening then we keep

02:40the clear skies, we keep the sunshine and then Thursday is looking like another widely

02:46fine day, just a bit more cloud for north and north-west Scotland. Much more on social media, bye bye.