Saturday morning forecast 15/01/22

15 January - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hello and welcome to the latest from the Met Office. We'll start the weekend with copious

00:05amounts of low cloud and fog, but brighter skies are looking more likely on Sunday, even

00:12some sunshine in many places. We're going to go from one high to the next over the next

00:16few days, so the one constant is that the weather is staying settled. However, initially

00:21on Friday night and Saturday we are going to see a lot of low cloud and fog as this

00:26high moves away. The two highs, this one and the next one that comes along later in the

00:31weekend are separated by a weather front which will help to clear the low cloud and fog by

00:37Sunday and bring much brighter skies to many places, albeit with quite a few showers and

00:42a brisk wind in the far north. And then this high comes to dominate the weather for next

00:47week and that means that we're going to see more of the same I think throughout much of

00:51next week. And that means plenty of settled weather but not entirely sunny skies because

00:56we have seen a lot of cloud for Scotland and Northern Ireland this week. That continues

00:59on Friday night. Meanwhile, for much of England and Wales, clear at first and then mist and

01:04fog soon form, especially across parts of the Midlands into eastern England where it

01:08will be dense in places there is a fog warning in force. There will also be some fog elsewhere

01:12but also low cloud for much of South Wales, central and southern parts of England. A few

01:19clear spells however, North Wales for example, North West England and a widespread frost

01:23forming once again across England and Wales with temperatures in some shelter spots down

01:27to minus three to minus five Celsius. So a freezing foggy start to the day once again

01:32on Saturday and those stubborn fog patches perhaps continuing all day in places, say

01:38for example parts of eastern England. So watch out on the roads first thing for that. Otherwise

01:44a lot of low cloud I think across parts of England and Wales, some brighter skies in

01:48places but certainly it looks generally cloudy across the UK. The clouds thick enough to

01:53give a few spots of rain or showers, mainly towards the West and North West and it's going

01:58to feel cold. Temperatures around average or just below and where we get the fog persisting,

02:03those temperatures, well not far from zero throughout much of the day I think. Into Saturday

02:08night a change comes along and that's the weather front I mentioned. It brings a spell

02:11of rain into North West Scotland by the evening and then that area of rain fizzles out as

02:17it pushes south across Scotland and Northern Ireland. So not much rain associated with

02:21it but it does help to clear the skies into the north of Scotland by the end of the night.

02:25It also turns the air colder and windier. Further south a bit more of a breeze, perhaps

02:30a bit more cloud and so less frosty and foggy compared to previous nights but you wouldn't

02:35discount it entirely. So a lot of cloud I think first thing Sunday but as this front

02:41moves south bringing some dribbly bits of rain, it's going to clear the air and for

02:46Scotland, Northern Ireland, for Northern England and then North Wales, parts of the

02:50Midlands, decent sunny spells breaking out. Even some brighter spells further south as

02:54well but that's where the cloudier stuff will remain and for Northern Scotland a windy day

02:59to come on Sunday with some showers and cloudier again for North West Scotland. But in between

03:04you can see plenty of blue skies so much brighter day for many of us on Sunday and a touch milder

03:10as well, particularly given that we won't have those lingering fog patches. So a bit

03:14of a contrast through the weekend as we clear the low cloud and fog and replace it with

03:19blue skies and sunshine but the overall settled theme remains and that's how it looks well

03:24into next week. Follow us on social media, keep you updated. Bye bye.