Monday afternoon forecast 17/01/22

17 January - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

Transcript

00:00Hello again. Blue skies Monday for many of us today, another fine winter's day with plenty

00:05of sunshine across most of the country, although not all of the country seeing that sunshine.

00:11There is a lot more cloud for the far north and west of Scotland and some patchy cloud

00:15into parts of northern England as well, particularly towards the west. Otherwise, after a cold

00:19start it is a largely sunny day and for the vast majority it's staying dry as well. Temperatures

00:26around average for the time of year feeling quite pleasant in that sunshine with light

00:30winds and of course under those clear skies and with light winds overnight, quite quickly

00:34those temperatures will drop away widely, fog forming especially across central, eastern

00:40and southern parts of England into east Wales as well. Cloudier skies for Scotland, Northern

00:45Ireland and increasingly some cloud drifting into the south and south west of England.

00:50Where we see that happen, fog and frost will be kept at bay but where we keep the clear

00:54skies and the freezing fog, temperatures falling below freezing, several degrees below

00:59freezing in towns and cities as low as minus five in the countryside. So cold start to

01:04Tuesday, a freezing start with that fog slow to clear especially across central and eastern

01:09parts of England whilst cloud steadily pushes in from the south and that will help to clear

01:15the fog. Where that happens it will lift into low cloud before dispersing. Cloud also thickening

01:19for Scotland, Northern Ireland, north west England with some outbreaks of rain pushing

01:24into the north west and a strengthening wind, the wind picking up towards the far west as

01:28well. Some mist patches remaining towards central and eastern parts of England, otherwise

01:33bright or sunny spells here but for many it's a much cloudier day by the afternoon compared

01:38to Monday afternoon and as a result it won't feel quite so pleasant but temperatures not

01:42far off what we're seeing through Monday. The rain tending to be on and off for central

01:48and western parts of Scotland into Northern Ireland, north west England during the evening

01:51but eventually some more persistent wet weather will push south across Scotland, a couple

01:57of weather fronts moving through and they'll move south across the whole of the UK during

02:02Tuesday night and into the first part of Wednesday. As you can see they're coming in along the

02:07eastern side of this area of high pressure which tends to build back in once the fronts

02:12clear. So the main impact of these weather fronts, because they won't contain a huge

02:16amount of rainfall, is that they clear the sky to colder but also brighter weather for

02:22Thursday and into Friday. So further overnight frosts and sunshine by day as we end the week.

02:28Follow us on social media and we'll keep you updated on all the latest. Bye bye.