Monday afternoon forecast 19/12/22

19 December - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

Transcript

00:00Welcome to your national weather update. It is a very mild Monday. Things have

00:05changed dramatically over the course of the weekend. We started the weekend with

00:09cold air in place, some sunshine in place as well, but this massive cloud

00:14down to the southwest that has swept in, pushed the cold air away and brought with

00:19it outbreaks of snow for a time and then plenty of rain and we're left

00:25with plenty of that rain and cloud around through the rest of Monday. Parts

00:28of eastern England may not see too much and Northern Ireland turning a bit

00:31brighter through the rest of today. Perhaps the clouds starting to break

00:34across parts of northwest England by the end of the day. But further rain to come

00:38in the southwest could cause a few issues and more rain to come across much

00:43of Scotland. Also it's very mild out there. Temperatures in the teens 14-15

00:49degrees are possible and certainly a lot higher than they were this time last

00:54week and that's because the winds have completely switched direction. Those

00:57winds are pretty gusty, blustery conditions continuing with further

01:00pulses of rain into the southwest this evening. In fact we keep quite a bit of

01:04cloud and rain over south Wales, the Midlands and all of southern England

01:08through the night. Some showers keep going across western parts of Northern

01:12Ireland and northwest Scotland but much of northern Britain actually turns dry

01:15and clear. It is December so the length of night means it could still turn

01:20quite chilly tonight. A touch of frost is possible across northeast Scotland

01:24and northeast England in rural spots but a really mild night with the cloud

01:28and the rain across the south and east. That makes for a fairly dull damp start on

01:33Tuesday morning across eastern England but that should scoot away and actually

01:38for many Tuesdays are dry and a bright day. The winds will be lighter as well,

01:42plenty of sunshine, a few showers for north and west Wales, perhaps northwest

01:46England, certainly the Highlands and a few scattered across Northern Ireland. But

01:50many places dry and bright. Temperatures will be dropping, they're not going to be

01:54as high on Tuesday compared to Monday but still actually for most places above

01:58average and still double figures across parts of the south. Still feeling colder

02:03in the northwest with a brisk wind here but for many the winds will be lighter

02:06during Tuesday. As we go through Tuesday evening we'll see more showers coming

02:11into the northwest and showers starting to gather more down to the southwest as

02:16well. We need to be prepared for more showery rain as we go through the rest

02:20of this week. That swirl you can see there, that is an area of low pressure up

02:24to the northwest but as well as that we are going to see further weather systems

02:27coming in from the Atlantic. Now details and timing remain a little uncertain at

02:33this stage but the broad picture you can see with the Atlantic influencing things,

02:37weather systems coming in bringing further spells of rain. Staying quite

02:41mild across the south but there's some colder air and northerly winds not too

02:46far away from the north so it looks like a bit of a north-south split as we head

02:50into the Christmas weekend. We'll have more on that in our weather for the

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