Monday afternoon forecast 26/04/21

26 April - National weather forecast presented by Aidan Mcgivern

Transcript

00:00Hello again. April so far has been remarkably sunny, remarkably dry and remarkably cold.

00:07And Monday continues that way for the south, but the first sign of a change into the north.

00:13Cloudier conditions here with some rain or showers. That's because high pressure remains

00:17there across much of the UK, but this area of low pressure is sinking southwards into

00:22Scotland initially and then it will come to a rest across the North Sea and affect much

00:26of the UK over the next few days. At first it is bringing some persistent rain. It's

00:32bringing this band of rain that will break up into showers and so for much of Scotland

00:36it's cloudy with outbreaks of rain or showers. The more persistent rain returning into the

00:41north east of Scotland towards the end of the afternoon. One or two showers also arriving

00:45by this stage into Northern Ireland and Northern England, but further south, well another day

00:49of unbroken sunshine virtually, just some high cloud drifting in ahead of this system.

00:54Sun temperature is a little lower compared to Sunday, but it's actually less breezy

00:58in the south, so perhaps in that way it will feel less cool. Into the evening and we'll

01:04see the high and medium cloud drift south, but it's the best of any clear spells remaining

01:08in the south of England and parts of South Wales. Further north, thicker cloud and showers

01:14affecting Northern Ireland and Northern England with more persistent rain pushing into the

01:18north east of Scotland. And here it will build up 20 to 30 millimetres of rain. Of course

01:23we do need some rain by this stage, but showers elsewhere mean that the rainfall totals will

01:28be very hit and miss and actually these showers aren't that heavy just yet. But frost free

01:33across much of the UK because of the additional cloud, just a touch of frost there into the

01:37far south of England and that's where the brightest skies will be on Tuesday morning.

01:42Sunny spells for much of the day in the south, cloud coming and going. But further north,

01:48well the cloud will break up, there will be one or two glimmers of bright spells, but

01:52there will also be quite a few showers for much of the UK, but some heavy slow moving

01:57downpours in particular for North Wales into the Midlands and Northern England. Northern

02:01Ireland also, parts of Northern Scotland in between this area of more persistent rain

02:06and drizzle. Not amounting to much, but make it feel on the cool side and fairly dreary

02:12and damp across parts of Central and Southern Scotland into parts of Northern England as

02:17well. It's in the far south and south east that we mainly stay dry and bright until later

02:23in the day with some spells of sunshine and feeling warm in that sunshine, 15 or 16 Celsius,

02:29but on the cool side where we've got the cloudier and wetter conditions further north and further

02:35north east. You can see this area of persistent rain hanging about, but elsewhere it's showers

02:40and the showers by Tuesday evening starting to push into the far south and still some

02:45heavy downpours around, but they will start to ease inland and become increasingly restricted

02:50to coasts through the night time. So some much needed rain, but some at this stage only

02:57with those showers being very hit and miss and it will work out to be a fairly showery

03:01week once this low pressure settles into the North Sea over the next few days. Follow us

03:07on social media and we'll keep you updated with all the latest. Bye bye.