Wednesday afternoon forecast 09/06/21

09 June - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there and welcome to the latest update from the Met Office. Rather a lot of cloud

00:04across northern and western UK during the rest of Wednesday. Warm sunny spells elsewhere

00:10and a ridge of high pressure still keeping things generally settled for much of the country.

00:15However, these weather fronts are arriving into the north and the west and they contain

00:20a lot of humidity, a lot of cloud, some outbreaks of rain. The most persistent rain during the

00:25rest of the day expected for western and northern Scotland. The heaviest rain in the

00:30far north of Scotland tending to ease away later in the afternoon. Elsewhere it's low

00:34cloud, it's bits and pieces of light rain and drizzle, mainly western hills. The odd

00:39shower coming into the south west and some coastal mist and fog. But for central and

00:44eastern areas, good spells of sunshine, especially in the east of England where temperatures

00:49will reach 26 Celsius. A good fern effect where the winds go over the higher ground

00:54into northern Scotland and warm up as they travel over the higher ground, well that could

00:59lead to 23 Celsius or so for northern Scotland and northern Ireland. Now into the evening,

01:04the low cloud in the west tends to creep along coastal areas and make some inroads further

01:09east at times. In the east it stays largely clear and for northeast Scotland. But elsewhere

01:15a gloomy night to come, a lot of that low cloud, mist, patchy drizzle and some coastal

01:21fog. So grey skies for many as we start off Thursday and that means for many northern

01:27and western areas, chances of seeing the eclipse, or the partial eclipse that is, and you'd

01:32need to see it safely of course, not with the naked eye, well the chance is quite low

01:37in the west but a better chance further east. And generally by the afternoon the cloud lifts

01:43and breaks, there'll be some sunshine developing. A few showers breaking out, some sharp showers

01:47across central areas and some more persistent rain into the northwest of Scotland. Away

01:52from the showers, away from the rain, sunny spells and highs of 27 Celsius in the southeast.

01:58Into Thursday evening and we keep clear spells across central and eastern areas but elsewhere

02:04we continue to see a lot of low cloud and further sea fog patches in places. So a gloomy

02:10couple of days in places but then it brightens up for many of us heading into the weekend

02:16with plenty of sunshine by Saturday. Follow us on social media and we'll keep you updated.

02:20As always, bye bye.