Thursday morning forecast 15/04/2021

15 April - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

Transcript

00:00Hello again, yet another cold start on Thursday, another frost for most of the UK, but generally

00:06another fine day with dry and bright conditions, sunny spells for most. Just a bit more cloud

00:10across eastern England with a chance of one or two showers likely here. High pressure

00:15is dominating across the country, encompassing the whole of the UK and keeping things fine

00:21through Wednesday, Thursday and beyond that also. Now, we have seen one or two showers

00:25during Wednesday over Wales and south-west England. They're fading through the evening

00:30and then clear skies will dominate and that's why we're having the frost forming quite quickly

00:35through the night and by dawn, temperatures even in towns and cities are likely to be

00:40at or below freezing. In rural areas, we could drop down to maybe as low as minus 3, minus

00:464, maybe minus 5 over northern England and northern parts of Scotland, minus 2 or 3 in

00:51the countryside across northern Ireland. Here, there could be some fog around through the

00:54night and first thing on Thursday morning, but that should clear away fairly quickly

00:58and of course, the sun will quite quickly melt any frost. A sunny day then by and large,

01:05but look at this, more clouds spilling into parts of eastern England, Lincolnshire, East

01:08Anglia, the south-east and we will see a scattering of showers here come the afternoon. Most though

01:13will stay dry and certainly many central and western parts dry and bright with sunny spells.

01:19Temperature-wise, struggling after that cold start, staying generally below average, 10,

01:2411 Celsius with an onshore breeze. Some of those North Sea coasts will be really quite

01:28fresh, 8 or 9 at best, but parts of western Scotland and south Wales could see temperatures

01:34climb into the teens once more. During Thursday evening, any showers will again fade from

01:40southeastern parts and then it's another clear night and again, we will see that frost forming

01:44quite quickly. Again, the odd mist and fog patch here and there, but a cold start, a

01:49frosty start again on Friday, but then again, by and large, another fine bright day with

01:54sunny spells taking control. The winds perhaps picking up a little bit in the far north-west

01:59as weather front approaching here which may increase the clouds so the sunshine may be

02:03a little hazy over western Scotland, but otherwise, as I say, dry and bright. Again though, temperatures

02:09struggling to get up to average for the time of year, mostly 10 to 13 Celsius covers it

02:14wherever there's a breeze off the sea. That is going to make it feel really quite fresh,

02:19but the high pressure that's with us sticks around. It does tend to waddle away a little

02:23bit as we go towards the weekend, allowing that weather front just to encroach a little

02:26further at times into the far north-west. Some uncertainty about how far that gets in,

02:31but it could bring a bit of patchy rain across the north-west, most likely on Sunday, but

02:35for most into and including the weekend, the outlook is dry, bright with sunny spells,

02:42but those mornings will continue to be on the frosty side. More details, as always,

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