Friday morning forecast 11/02/22

11th February - National weather forecast, presented by Clare Nasir.

Transcript

00:00Hello there. Welcome to your weather update from the Met Office.

00:04All changing to the weekend as cloud and rain and wind arrives.

00:08Before that though, the air is turning steadily colder.

00:11Let's take a look at the next 24 hours or so.

00:14This area of low pressure brought with it snow and gales.

00:17It's clearing towards the North Sea through Thursday night and into Friday.

00:21We then gain a ridge of high pressure, still some showers towards the far north and west.

00:26But the key feature of weather into Friday will be how cold it is.

00:29A widespread frost with the risk of some ice.

00:32All change though through Saturday as that weather front waits in the wings

00:36and brings with it cloud, rain and wind.

00:39For the time being, that's Thursday into Friday.

00:41You can see that driving wind.

00:43We lose the showers across eastern Scotland,

00:45but still some clipping eastern counters of England through evening and overnight.

00:49A few showers then run in across West Wales as well as Northern Ireland.

00:52And further showers are likely across the western northern periphery of Scotland.

00:57Inland though, it's going to turn really cold, bitterly cold.

01:00In the countryside, temperatures could be as low as minus 4 to minus 10 degrees Celsius

01:05across the highlands of Scotland.

01:07But that does lead into a fine start to the day on Friday.

01:10Watch out for some mists and fog patches.

01:13They will be short-lived, but certainly the risk of ice first thing.

01:16Many areas though getting away with a dry morning, a bright morning with some sunshine.

01:20A lighter breeze for a time.

01:22As the cloud slowly thickens from the west,

01:25still some showers across the north and the west of Scotland,

01:27but many areas getting away with a dry day.

01:30The sunshine turning hazy across eastern Scotland and north-west England later on in the day

01:34as the winds pick up further strength.

01:36So feeling cold under that thickening cloud.

01:39So that's the picture on Friday.

01:41Into the weekend, things look decidedly unsettled.

01:45Rain arrives from the west.

01:46The winds will pick up, so expect gales across the north and the west, particularly through Saturday.

01:51And then some heavier bursts of rain will arrive across England and Wales as we head into Sunday,

01:55with showers across the far north as well as the west.

01:58Temperatures slightly milder than what they have been,

02:00even so it will turn colder yet again across the north-west later on in the weekend.