Thursday afternoon forecast 09/03/23
9 March - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.
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00:00Heavy snowfall will continue to affect parts of the UK overnight and into Friday
00:05morning. We have three amber Met Office warnings for snow in place across parts
00:10of Northern Ireland, Northern England and Wales. Here's the bigger picture from
00:14earlier on Thursday, this massive cloud with rain across the south but it's
00:18falling as snow over parts of Wales, the Midlands and into Northern England
00:21continuing to push northwards into parts of Northern Ireland. Across the south
00:25the winds picking up and it will be rain showers that we see here but it's this
00:29area over North Wales, North Midlands into Northern England and extending into
00:34Northern Ireland that we are most concerned about. A broad yellow warning
00:37with these three amber warnings in it. In the amber warning areas for Northern
00:43Ireland four to eight centimetres quite widely but 10 to 20 centimetres quite
00:47widely in these areas over Wales and Northern England with over Northern
00:51England on the hills up to 40 centimetres possible. The strengthening
00:55wind will mean that snow is blowing around, that means blizzards so it adds
01:00up to some pretty atrocious travelling conditions. The potential for rural
01:04communities to be cut off and power issues are also likely in these zones as
01:10well as other significant disruption. Now the snow is working its way
01:14northwards into Northern Ireland through the rest of the afternoon where it will
01:17linger into the evening. Elsewhere the snow continuing over Northern England
01:22particularly on the TransPennine route. It's a cold day as you might imagine
01:25here but in the south it has turned milder with temperatures perhaps getting
01:29up into the teens in one or two places. Meanwhile for much of Scotland it's fine
01:33dry and sunny but cold. Some of that snow getting into southern Scotland late in
01:38the day as it continues to track northwards. You can see the swirl there
01:42that's the area of low pressure strengthening the winds in the
01:45southwest through this evening and overnight. The blustery conditions
01:49continue to feed snow into parts of Northern Ireland probably rain on the
01:52coast as it will be across eastern England but over the hills here and over
01:56parts of North Wales the amber warnings remain in place into Friday morning.
02:01Another cold night across Scotland though perhaps not quite as cold as
02:04recent nights and further south we should generally stay above freezing but
02:08it will get very windy through the night across West Wales, Cornwall and the
02:12southwest. This big swirl you can see the strong winds the rain and snow all
02:17starts to pull away as the low pressure clears away but still on Friday morning
02:21snow likely over parts of North Wales easing here. Northern parts of England
02:26particularly northeast and then down into Lincolnshire, East Anglia perhaps
02:29even the southeast there could also still be a mixture of rain sleet and
02:33snow coming in for a time potentially icy wherever we've seen any showers
02:38through Thursday night and into Friday as well. For many actually Friday is a
02:42fine and sunny day but it will be cold a colder day across the south
02:46temperatures back into single figures here and more snow showers potentially
02:50coming into northern Scotland at this stage so again things likely to turn
02:54icy as we go through Friday night as the frost returns. So colder again then on
03:00Friday turning dry up for a time but eyes out west as another weather system
03:05then potentially comes in during Saturday trying to push the milder air
03:09back against that colder air and where they mix again the potential for some
03:13snow on Saturday and into Sunday another weather system coming in
03:17bringing more wet weather for a time so plenty going on even in the outlook but
03:21in the shorter term we are most concerned about those amber warning
03:25areas. Please keep up to date with the very latest the Met Office app the Met
03:29Office website have those warnings and of course we're constantly updating
03:32things across social media.