Saturday morning forecast 19/02/22

19 February-National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hello again. Storm Eunice and its most powerful winds will gradually come down through Friday

00:05night. More wet and windy weather is expected this weekend but not on the same scale as

00:09Eunice. However, through the rest of Friday, still the risk of widespread gales for the

00:13southern half of the UK as Eunice pulls away. Still the risk of 70 mph wind gusts for a

00:19time. Eventually overnight the winds will all end. But further showers come into Scotland,

00:24Northern Ireland, Northern England, those falling as rain and sleet at lower levels,

00:27over the hills. And with temperatures dropping away, with lighter winds, with clearer spells,

00:32there is the risk of a few icy patches first thing for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern

00:37England. In the south, clear spells, a cold start for many first thing on Saturday, but

00:42a bright start, plenty of sunshine. We keep that sunshine through much of the morning

00:46for Scotland, for much of central and eastern England. But towards the west, turns wet and

00:51windy. Another spell of lively weather moves in, heavy rain, hill snow in the north and

00:57winds gusting to 40 or 50 mph for southern parts of the UK, 60 perhaps around coasts.

01:03Not on the same scale as Eunice, nevertheless not welcome at all, particularly following

01:09the impacts of Eunice. That's out of the way by the late afternoon. Another little feature

01:15pushes through Northern Ireland into parts of Western Scotland and Northern England.

01:18That again, rain and sleet at lower levels, snow over hills also moves through relatively

01:23quickly. Some brighter skies coming into the west following the earlier wind and rain,

01:2811 Celsius in the south-west, 5 or 6 elsewhere, so feeling quite cold. Then, into Saturday

01:35night quite quickly, another weather system approaches, this bringing a spell of rain

01:40and then increasing winds as it's tightening ice bars approach northern parts of the UK,

01:46although it will be increasingly windy up and down the country. It's following a very

01:50different track to Eunice and its biggest impacts will be across northern parts of

01:54the UK compared to southern areas. Something a little quieter briefly on Saturday evening,

02:01some clear spells, but then quite quickly, just after temperatures drop away, a band

02:06of rain moves in, turning increasingly wet in the north and the west, the heaviest rain

02:10over northern and western hills. And we start off Sunday with temperatures rising following

02:16a touch of frost early in the night, 9s and 10s in the south, 3 to 9 further north, but

02:23increasingly windy, cloudy and in some places, very soggy. The more persistent rain pushes

02:30into central and then southern parts of England during Sunday itself. It's replaced by showers

02:35for Scotland and Northern Ireland and again, colder air pushes south, so those showers

02:40will be falling as rain, sleet and hail at lower levels, snow over the hills. A wet and

02:45windy day then for many, particularly for England and Wales, where that rain becomes

02:49more persistent in many places into the afternoon, the wettest weather for north Wales, north-west

02:54England. Scotland and Northern Ireland, blustery showers, but it's later in the day on Sunday

02:59that the winds pick up more significantly and there's the risk of 50, 60 mph wind gusts

03:04in the north, with 70 or 80 possible in exposed coastal or hilly locations. And so those winds

03:11could very well cause impacts, especially for northern parts of the country, not welcome

03:15following the passage of Eunice. It will be mild, south-westerly winds blowing in mild

03:22air for the south, 13 Celsius, but increasingly cold for the north as those showers turn more

03:28wintry. Stay up to date, we may update these warnings as we get closer to Sunday and of

03:34course, there's more unsettled weather to come over the next few days and you'll want

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