Saturday morning forecast 01/01/22
01 January - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.
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00:00Happy New Year from everyone at the Met Office.
00:03Certainly, the weather is going to be blowing a few cobwebs away
00:06on New Year's Day, a blustery day with a gusty wind.
00:09Bright spells for many, however, and most places
00:13will be dry for much of the day.
00:15And it is going to be a very mild start to 2022.
00:21There's a little bit of patchy rain around
00:22across parts of Scotland through New Year's Eve.
00:25Maybe it'll shower for Northern Ireland as well.
00:28But the bulk of England and Wales staying dry, quite cloudy.
00:31And as I said, it is very mild if you're out celebrating
00:35the start of the new year.
00:37Bit of rain clearing away from Scotland
00:39by the time we get to dawn.
00:40So most places will start dry on Saturday,
00:44but with a lot of cloud.
00:45And again, the winds continuing to come up from the south
00:48and keeping those temperatures well above average
00:50for the time of year.
00:51We're starting New Year's Day in double figures.
00:54Also starting windy, particularly
00:56along the West Coast.
00:57Very blustery across the western side of Scotland.
01:01Gusts of 60, maybe 70 miles an hour for a time
01:03across the Western Isles.
01:04They'll ease steadily through the day.
01:06We'll see this zone of thicker clouds with patchy rain
01:09working from west to east across England and Wales,
01:12but really fizzling out as it does so.
01:14And arriving across East England and the southeast,
01:16perhaps late in the afternoon.
01:18Showers will keep going in Western Scotland,
01:20but it will stay windy.
01:21But elsewhere, say, much of the day
01:24will be dry and a bit brighter than recently,
01:26with a better chance of seeing some sunny spells.
01:29That wind will be blowing the cobwebs away for sure,
01:31but it will also be continuing to bring mild air temperatures
01:35again widely into the teens.
01:38We could see highs once more of 14 or 15 degrees Celsius.
01:43Through the evening, that patchy rain
01:45could easily continue across the southeast,
01:47especially across parts of Kent.
01:49And then we look further west as zones of heavy showers
01:52come into England and Wales to start Sunday.
01:55That will clear out into the North Sea.
01:57But then look at this, another little feature
01:59that needs watching, actually.
02:00Really nasty.
02:01This could have some quite heavy rain and some gusty winds
02:04as it moves in on Sunday morning across the southwest
02:07and then spreads more widely across England and Wales
02:10during Sunday.
02:11Some uncertainty about the intensity
02:12and the exact position, but that could
02:14bring a spell of very heavy rain and gusty winds.
02:18We'll keep a mixture of sunshine and showers
02:19for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
02:21Quite gusty winds all the time, but especially
02:23on Sunday along the south coast.
02:26Still pretty mild, but temperatures just dropping down
02:30a degree or so and obviously feeling
02:32pretty grim under that zone of wet and windy weather coming
02:35into central areas.
02:36Low pressure continuing to dominate,
02:38but in the hour we will see a shift.
02:40We're going to lose the southwesterly winds
02:43and introduce the winds more from the north
02:45as we go through Monday and more particularly
02:47into Tuesday and Wednesday.
02:49A ridge of high pressure should bring some brighter skies,
02:53but we'll notice the change in temperatures in particular
02:55if we just rewind back to New Year's Day.
02:59Very mild air across the UK, but things
03:01start to turn cooler through Sunday and Monday
03:05and then we open the door to these northerly winds
03:07bringing much colder air by Tuesday and Wednesday.
03:11So quite a change on the way through the middle part
03:14of the week, but a very mild start to 2022.
03:18Watch out for some heavy showers,
03:19especially across the south during the course of Sunday.
03:23Keep up to date for the rest of the year
03:26by following the Met Office on social media.