Friday afternoon forecast 18/11/22

18 November - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hello, it's certainly been wet across many parts of the UK recently and over the last

00:0536 hours the focus for the rain has been across parts of Scotland, eastern Scotland in particular

00:10and north east England. I'm sure you don't need me to tell you if you live in eastern

00:13Scotland how wet it's been but running the rainfall radar and satellite image since Wednesday

00:18evening you can just see when the rain sets in there, this showery stuff initially and

00:23then this band of rain that moved up from the south and really with low pressure sitting

00:28close to eastern England through this time, we've just seen this strong wind blowing

00:32an awful lot of rainfall into north east England and eastern Scotland and across some of the

00:38higher parts of eastern Scotland, the Grampians, we've seen 100mm and there's more to come

00:43through the rest of Friday, another 50mm in some spots so an amber warning in force because

00:48we're already seeing impacts from that rain, there's more to come, real risk of flooding

00:52during the rest of Friday. Elsewhere it is drier, there's some outbreaks of rain for

00:57western Scotland as well but showers predominantly for northern Ireland into north west England,

01:02parts of north Wales as well as south west England, away from the showers towards the

01:06south west, that's where the brightest skies will be, some sunshine for northern Ireland,

01:10Wales and the south west and it's a colder day compared with many days that we've experienced

01:16recently, 12 or 13 in the south, 9 or 10 further north but this strong wind continues in the

01:21north east, gales around exposed coasts of mainland Scotland in the north east as well

01:26as the northern isles, 50-60mph wind gusts or even higher in some exposed spots. Into

01:32the evening and it stays damp for much of Scotland but the real heavy and persistent

01:37wet weather eases away, some outbreaks of light rain return to the east of England and

01:42some low cloud here but otherwise clearing skies for the west, showers disappearing through

01:48the night and under those clear skies with this cold air in place, it will be a chilly

01:52start to Saturday, I think close to zero for south west Scotland, Wales and the south

01:57west, minus 3 or minus 4 across parts of northern Ireland and some dense fog patches here first

02:02thing, they could take some time to clear, they will clear though as the cloud arrives

02:06ahead of this weather system, now this is the next bout of wet and windy weather making

02:11its way in for later Saturday, it comes up against cold air and so could be some flakes

02:17of snow over the higher part of northern UK but initially Saturday starts off with light

02:22rain for eastern Scotland, eastern England so less wet but still damp in places and a

02:28cloudy day to come in the east. Further west, brighter skies, a slice of sunshine crossing

02:33the country but by the end of the afternoon we've got that rain returning to northern

02:38Ireland along with a freshening wind, it's going to be a cold day for northern Ireland

02:42after that chilly start especially where some fog persists through the morning but where

02:46we get the sunshine, 10, 11, 12 Celsius or so, coldest day for some time and it looks

02:52like it's going to be a little below average in places, that's something we've not seen

02:57for a while but the rain in the west and that strengthening wind will push in by the evening

03:03into western Scotland, parts of Wales as well as the south west, it will move through slowly

03:09but most places will experience it overnight and it's likely to bring some flakes of snow

03:14to the tops of the Pennines and the Scottish mountains, nothing unusual for the time of

03:18year of course but not something we've seen a lot of this autumn. Weather stays changeable

03:23over the next few days, much more online.