Saturday morning forecast 22/01/22
22 January - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.
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00:00Hello, welcome to your latest updates from the Met Office.
00:03This weekend's kind of can be summed up
00:05as dry, but rather drab.
00:07Lots of cloud across the country, but not much rain,
00:10thanks to this chunky area of high pressure.
00:13It's been ambling in from the West,
00:15and it's here to stay, sticking around throughout the weekend
00:20and beyond.
00:21At times, weak weather fronts will
00:23affect the far Northwest, and the isobars squidging together
00:26here as well.
00:27So it's going to be breezy, getting particularly
00:29gusty across the far North later on Sunday.
00:31But for most, under this area of high pressure,
00:33the winds will be light.
00:35But there is going to be quite a lot of cloud around.
00:38Certainly, more cloud on Friday nights
00:39will mean it's not as cold.
00:42Yes, we'll see some breaks in the cloud.
00:43Of course, the eastern pockets of frost are still possible.
00:46But for most, we will be staying above freezing,
00:50thanks to that cloud.
00:51The thick cloud in the Northwest,
00:52still bringing a bit of drizzly rain
00:54to the Highlands and the Western Isles.
00:56Quite breezy here as well, so that
00:57will keep the temperatures up here, 7 or 8 degrees.
01:00Most towns and cities, 2 or 3 degrees Celsius.
01:03But as I said, some pockets of frost
01:05are still possible where the skies do stay clear.
01:09And of course, where the skies stay clear,
01:11should lead to some sunshine on Saturday morning.
01:13But that's going to be in short supply.
01:14For most, it's going to be a grey start.
01:16It'll be eastern England, northeast Scotland,
01:18and perhaps parts of the south that
01:20do see some breaks in the cloud and a bit of sunshine.
01:23Whereas the hills of Northwest England,
01:25and certainly across the Highlands and Argyll and Bute,
01:28there will be outbreaks of rain and drizzle.
01:30The far north of Scotland may brighten up, actually,
01:33later in the day.
01:33And it's here, Caithness, Sutherland,
01:35down to the Moray coastline, where
01:37we'll see the top temperatures, 10, 11, maybe 12 Celsius.
01:41Elsewhere, we're looking at 8 or 9 degrees,
01:43a little bit warmer than Friday.
01:45But of course, you won't have as much sunshine, certainly not
01:48across the south and the east.
01:50So fairly gloomy skies persisting
01:52through a Saturday afternoon, and not much
01:54changing through Saturday evening.
01:56The rain may tend to peter out for a time
01:58across the northwest.
01:59And elsewhere, it just stays dry and cloudy
02:02as we head into Sunday.
02:03Similar story, then, there will be some breaks
02:05in the cloud on Sunday, so a bit of sunshine
02:07possible for parts of Wales, northeast England,
02:10again, northeast Scotland, but the Highlands,
02:13the Western Isles continuing to see a bit of drizzle.
02:15And as I said at the start, that wind
02:17starting to strengthen further here.
02:19It's going to be a breezy weekend,
02:20but gets very gusty by the end of Sunday.
02:23Elsewhere, the winds are light, some temperatures again,
02:25probably just about getting up to 7, 8, or 9 Celsius.
02:29A little higher if we do see any spells of sunshine
02:32coming through.
02:34As for the outlook, well, high pressure remains in charge.
02:37So even well into next week, it looks like largely dry
02:40conditions will persist.
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