Thursday afternoon forecast 26/01/23

26 January - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hello, we've lost those crazy contrasts in temperature from north to south that we've

00:04had over the last few days. Temperatures evening out and back to around average across the

00:09UK behind this cold front. The cold front has actually made things a touch milder in

00:14the south because it's helped to stir up the air. We've lost the very stagnant and very

00:18cold air right at the surface. We've also lost a lot of the low cloud that we saw during

00:22Wednesday. Having said that, there were a few mist patches, a few frost patches as well

00:27first thing on Thursday. By the afternoon, most places in the same boat, plenty of bright

00:33weather, best of the sunshine in the west, cloudier skies in the east and some showers

00:37coming in from the coast there for the far north and the east. It's going to feel cold

00:41on the coast with the brisk wind coming in from the North Sea but temperatures for most

00:46I think back to around average 7 or 8 in the south, 6 or 7 further north. Then into the

00:53evening, actually we've got light winds and clear skies for western Scotland and for Northern

00:58Ireland, some western parts of England as well as Wales. Where we have those clear spells,

01:04temperatures will fall away, a touch of frost in places once again and some fog patches

01:07especially for Northern Ireland, some dense fog forming here. But cloudier skies coming

01:12into the east and the southeast will keep things mostly fog and frost free. However,

01:18because the ground is so cold at the moment, it wouldn't rule out a touch of ground frost

01:23even where we've got some cloud coming and going and a frost on the cars perhaps first

01:27thing. So a chilly start but not exceptional. Temperatures typically hovering either side

01:35of freezing by a couple of degrees. Into the start of Friday, those fog patches to watch

01:41out for especially for Northern Ireland but they don't last long because we've got this

01:44area of cloud pushing in across Northern Ireland, northwest Scotland as well, the breeze picking

01:49up and outbreaks of rain arriving into Lewis and Harris by the afternoon. Elsewhere across

01:54the UK it's mostly dry, a better chance of some sunshine in the east, sunny spells for

01:58much of England, Wales, southern and eastern Scotland. And temperatures again not far from

02:03average, perhaps a degree lower compared with Wednesday afternoon 6 to 8 Celsius by and

02:10large. Into the evening then, the band of rain in the northwest makes progress south,

02:15some heavier bursts for a time but otherwise it is a fairly narrow feature, it's pushing

02:21its way through so no great amounts associated with it. It will keep things fog and frost

02:26free generally across Scotland and Northern Ireland on Friday night but it's a colder

02:30start to the day further south. In fact, temperatures could dip to minus 5 Celsius for parts of

02:37England and then it slowly turns milder through the weekend but also breezier with plenty

02:42of dry weather especially in the south.