Friday afternoon forecast 04/03/22

04 March - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

Transcript

00:00Hello again. West is definitely best if you're after bright skies through this Friday. Across

00:06the east it's dull, it's dismal, it's pretty dank. Here's the satellite image showing this

00:11big stripe of cloud with outbreaks of rain. Clearer skies further west. Further west still

00:16we do have an area of low pressure that looks pretty nasty but that is not heading our way.

00:21A little ridge of high pressure and there's that weather front that's been with us for

00:25a couple of days and is not moving anywhere very quickly. It's going to continue to bring

00:30cloud and rain across north east England, down through into the east midlands, parts

00:35of east Anglia too and at times Aberdeenshire also. Further west, well we do have some showers

00:40it has to be said across Wales and south west England but for much of the west it's dry,

00:45it's bright and we do have quite a bit of sunshine. Temperatures though, well responding

00:50to a bit of sunshine we might squeak up to double figures. It's pretty chilly everywhere

00:54however if you are stuck under that cloud and rain, well 5-6 degrees Newcastle down

01:00towards east Yorkshire that's going to feel pretty bleak. Rain and drizzle will continue

01:05across parts of eastern England well into the evening, perhaps clearing away from the

01:09far north east of England, certainly ebbing away from eastern Scotland. Clear skies then

01:14for Scotland, Northern Ireland will allow a fairly extensive frost and frost too for

01:18parts of north west England and Wales where we keep the clearest skies. But with the cloud

01:23and the rain continuing over eastern England that will keep the temperatures a few degrees

01:27above freezing here. But elsewhere as I said we are likely to see a frost certainly in

01:31rural areas, even some freezing fog possible through Northern Ireland and Scotland. But

01:36generally here it's a cracking start. So what should be a super sunny Saturday, we'll see

01:40sunny skies for most of Wales, south west England, north west England too but for the

01:45midlands, particularly the east midlands, Lincolnshire, east Anglia and the south east

01:50it's grey, it's dank, it's rain and drizzle on and off for much of the day and again it's

01:55going to have a big impact on the temperatures. Feeling pretty cold if you're stuck under

01:59that thick cloud and persistent rain and drizzle. Temperatures only 4-5-6 degrees at best. Further

02:05west again with some sunshine we should squeak up to double figures in one or two places

02:10but even these numbers are still below average for the time of year and it stays pretty cold

02:15into Sunday. However the rain should at least start to fizzle out, still around on Friday

02:20on Saturday evening across eastern England for sure but it will fizzle out I suspect

02:24overnight just left with a few showers across parts of the east and moving into the south

02:29west as we head into Sunday because high pressure is moving in for the weekend. But it is going

02:36to allow an easterly wind to pick up across the south so that is going to make it feel

02:40really quite cold on Sunday. Temperatures even where we see some sunshine only single

02:45figures but add on that wind across the south and it feels more like 3 or 4 at the very

02:49best so it is going to be a cold feeling weekend for sure. Many places having a dry

02:54weekend and for some there will be plenty of sunshine around as well. More details as

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