Friday morning forecast 28/01/22

28th January - National weather forecast, presented by Clare Nasir.

Transcript

00:00Hello there, welcome to your weather update from the Met Office. Mostly dry through Friday

00:04across many areas, although a fair amount of cloud towards more northern and western

00:08areas. Brighter skies towards the south-east, wetter weather towards the north-west. Now

00:12high pressure has never been too far away, exerting an influence into the early hours

00:16of Friday morning. Ice bars opening up, some mist and fog, low cloud in the south and some

00:21frost. At the same time, these ice bars gathering towards the north-west through Friday, meaning

00:27some stronger winds, more cloud and also some outbreaks of rain. First of all though, Thursday

00:32evening, some showers lurking across the far north of Scotland. Elsewhere, under the influence

00:36of high pressure, a lighter breeze. Watch out for mist and fog in the south, some low

00:40cloud and temperatures falling close to freezing if not below. So fairly widespread frost here,

00:45pockets of frost further north-east across England, even eastern parts of Scotland through

00:49the first part of the night before more cloud arrives across Northern Ireland and Western

00:53Scotland and the winds pick up some strength. So first thing then on Friday morning, bright

00:58for some, particularly England and Wales, eastern Scotland seeing some brighter weather

01:02but certainly some sunshine down towards the south-east, any mist and fog lifting around

01:06mid-morning. You can see there's rain though moving up towards the Northern Isles, covering

01:10much of Caithness and Sutherland. But the wind direction is loaded with moisture, a

01:14lot of cloud delivering, lots of low cloud, rain and drizzle to the western highlands

01:18through the day. And then we'll see some brighter weather to end the day across East Anglia,

01:22central southern England as well as the south-east. Temperatures typically coming in around 9

01:26to 11 degrees Celsius and certainly you will notice the difference if you're stepping

01:30out on Friday evening. Relatively mild for the end of January but certainly will be damp

01:36in places, a lot of thick cloud around and eventually the winds will pick up even further

01:41as the rain intensifies towards the north-west of the country. So expect gales into Saturday

01:47morning as this band of cloud and rain slowly slides down to these parts. Elsewhere, yes

01:52Saturday morning will dawn cloudy with some patchy rain and drizzle, particularly over

01:56the higher routes. So let's just pick up on that weather through the weekend. On Saturday

02:01morning, very windy in the north with gales as this weather front sinks down towards the

02:06south. And then again a ridge of high pressure exerts its influence from the south-west,

02:10so fairly widespread frost into Sunday morning before this system skirts up towards the north

02:16and again the risk of gales, even severe gales for a time and also some quite heavy rain.

02:21So backtrack to Saturday, here's your afternoon cities list. Cloud outbreaks, rain temperatures

02:2712 to 13 degrees Celsius, a cold night to come into Sunday. Brighter skies on Sunday

02:32towards the south-east, feeling a bit colder. Watch out for rain and wind in the north.

02:36I'll see you later. Bye bye for now.