Wednesday afternoon forecast 19/01/22

19 January- National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there. Following a cloudy start to the day in places, brighter skies or even some

00:05sunny skies follow for the rest of Wednesday. But it will feel cold with northerly winds

00:11arriving bringing some showers mainly to the northeast and the east coast. And these showers

00:18will be increasingly wintry later as the cold air arrives directly from the Arctic. And

00:24you can see as that cold front clears away during Wednesday afternoon, the blues spreading

00:28south across the UK. Still something a little milder in the far south and it's a cloudy

00:33start to the afternoon here but any rain swiftly clearing away from the far southeast. Brighter,

00:40clearer spells following but also a keen northerly wind making it feel really quite cold. So

00:47temperatures across northern parts of the UK dropping away through the day with highs

00:51of, well, four to seven Celsius. Ten degrees possible in the south but those temperatures

00:57will be dropping quite quickly after the sun goes down. The northerly wind also bringing

01:02some showers to central and northern Scotland. Increasingly these will be falling as sleet

01:06and snow or hail in places are covering over the hills and perhaps a centimetre or so at

01:12lower levels across northern Scotland overnight. But not a great deal of snowfall. For most

01:18it's a dry night with lengthy clear spells and a widespread frost. The lowest temperatures

01:23overnight will be across Scotland, minus five Celsius or lower in some sheltered spots.

01:29Despite the frosty, very cold start to the day fairly widely, it is a bright start with

01:34plenty of sunshine you can see across central and western parts of the UK. I think a bit

01:39more cloud there for northern Ireland, northern Scotland, eastern England and in the northeast

01:43and east we'll see further showers. And again these will be of a wintry mix. Mostly sleet

01:48and snow I think, but really amounts falling and settling on the ground quite minimal,

01:54a centimetre or so in places. But otherwise for most it's a dry day, a sunny day in many

01:59places but a cold day. Temperatures well below what they've been during the last couple of

02:04days. We're looking at low to mid-single figures and feeling particularly cold with that strong

02:09wind in the northeast and east. Into Thursday night with those widespread clear skies and

02:15with cold air in place I think it's going to be another widely frosty night. A bit more

02:20cloud into the north of Scotland, northern Ireland as well as winds switch direction

02:24so could stay frost free here but otherwise mostly a frosty start to Friday. And in some

02:30places particularly towards the south and southwest could be the coldest night of the

02:34winter so far. We'll keep you updated on that and everything else and you can follow those

02:38updates on social media. Bye bye.