Weekend weather – Dry and drab and a little colder
The weekend promises very little rain and not much sunshine with many places either cloudy or foggy and dry. The fog will be patchy but thick and could be very slow to clear.
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00:00Hello, and welcome to your weekend forecast from the Met Office. The last weekend, of
00:05course, before Christmas. Not going to offer much in the way of brightness. It looks like
00:09being a fairly grey, gloomy affair for many. But there's not going to be much in the way
00:13of rainfall either. It's looking dry for the vast majority at times. And in a few spots,
00:19there could be some quite dense patches of fog around. When the outlook is like this
00:23at this time of year, you can usually guarantee high pressure is nearby. And this one is sitting
00:28right across the UK. And it's going to stick around through the weekend and into the first
00:33part of the Christmas week as well, keeping things largely dry. But we will notice temperatures
00:38dropping off as we go into the weekend. It is going to feel quite a bit colder. And for many,
00:43it is going to be pretty cloudy too. Now, not everywhere. I suspect much of northern Scotland,
00:48parts of southern Scotland, far north of England, west Wales, southwest England will see some
00:52brightness and a bit of sunshine coming through. But certainly for much of east Wales and a large
00:58portion of England, it's going to be fairly glum. And particularly across these eastern areas,
01:02mist, low clouds and even in places some stubborn fog patches. Staying fairly cloudy too across
01:08northern Ireland. But even here, we may see some brightness and a bit of sunshine. Could see
01:13temperatures climbing up in the southwest up to double digits. Where it stays misty and murky,
01:18though, we're going to struggle to get much of a five or six Celsius. Notice the highest
01:23temperature probably going to be over the mountains of Scotland. On the tops of the
01:27mountains here, we could for a time on Saturday get temperatures into the teens. High pressure
01:33still with us then through Saturday night and into Sunday. Just a slight shift in the position
01:39of the high just opens the door to some colder air coming in. But that's not really until next week.
01:46Generally speaking, not a lot of change on Sunday. Again, where we've got breaks in the cloud,
01:50there could be some frost to start the day and there will again be some fog patches coming. And
01:57once they come, they're likely to stick around. It's hard to shift fog at this time of year.
02:01Bit of a change of the breeze coming in more from the North Sea across these eastern areas.
02:06Again, parts of northern Scotland, West Wales, southwest England doing OK for
02:10brightness and sunny spells. But for most, dry and glum sums it up. And again, temperatures
02:17below average for most for the time of year, five, six degrees, especially where it stays
02:21misty and murky. And even the mountains of Scotland won't be as warm on Sunday. As for
02:26the outlook into Christmas week, well, the dry theme continues, but it is set to perhaps turn a
02:31little bit colder and we could see some changes in terms of that high pressure as we head towards
02:36the Christmas period. That could bring some wet weather and possibly even some wintry weather as
02:43well. But it's just too early at this stage to put any kind of detail. So the message is throughout
02:48next week, stay tuned to the Met Office forecasts. And the best way to do that is to stay connected
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