Friday afternoon forecast 06/01/23
06 January - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.
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00:00Thanks for joining me for this national weather update.
00:02For many, it's a fine Friday, but there
00:05is more wet and windy weather to come this weekend.
00:07There was certainly plenty of rain around.
00:09Overnight, did you get woken up by this weather front
00:12as it crossed through England and Wales?
00:14And quite heavy rain on that.
00:15Still a big swirl, some wet and windy weather
00:17at the moment across northern Scotland.
00:19And behind me, another swirl, another area of low pressure
00:22that'll bring wet weather this weekend.
00:24But for most, we're between weather systems today.
00:28There are some showers over Wales moving
00:30into northwest England.
00:31And later on, showers will return
00:33to Wales and southwest England.
00:35Still showery across the Northern Isles
00:36and still very windy here.
00:39But elsewhere, it's mostly dry and bright,
00:42and the winds are easing down, at least for a time.
00:44And it is still pretty mild.
00:46Temperature's not as high as yesterday, but still
00:48double digits quite widely, 11 or 12 degrees across the south.
00:53In the southwest, though, as the showers return,
00:55the winds will start to strengthen.
00:56And this line of rain will join in as well.
01:00So generally, just turning wet in many western areas
01:02through this evening, some heavy bursts
01:04of rain for Northern Ireland.
01:05And then through the night for Wales and southwest England,
01:08some very heavy rain possible, particularly over the hills
01:10here.
01:11So we do have a Met Office yellow warning in place,
01:14a potential for that heavy rain to cause some problems,
01:16especially by Saturday morning.
01:19The east may well stay dry, the east of England, that is.
01:22And by dawn, the rain should be clearing away
01:24from Northern Ireland.
01:25Cooler air will return as that wet weather clears.
01:28But for most, temperatures to start the weekend
01:32are going to be 10 or 11 degrees Celsius.
01:34So a very mild, but for many, a pretty soggy start to Saturday.
01:38Still some heavy bursts of rain for Wales and southwest
01:41England, especially.
01:42The rain will take a couple of hours
01:43before it gets to East Anglia and the far southeast.
01:47Drier conditions follow in the west for a time.
01:49We may well see some sunny spells.
01:51But then the showers really get going
01:53for Wales, southwest England, and southern parts
01:56of Scotland.
01:57There'll be some brighter spells, but generally,
01:59showers never too far away by Saturday afternoon.
02:02Blown in on a fairly stiff wind.
02:04That doesn't mean the showers will tend to zip through.
02:07And as I say, there will be some brighter spells in between.
02:10Look at the temperatures for Saturday afternoon.
02:12Actually, lower than they will be to start Saturday.
02:16But still, these values of 7 to 10 degrees,
02:18generally around or a touch above average
02:20for the time of year.
02:21So it's not going to feel cold, but temperatures
02:23will be dropping as we go through the day.
02:25And obviously, it's not going to feel very pleasant
02:27if you're getting caught out in these showers
02:28and gusty winds, which will continue
02:30through Saturday evening.
02:32Get nowhere immune from a downpour if you're heading out.
02:35You can see the swirl here.
02:38That is that low pressure system we saw earlier on the satellites.
02:41And it will continue to dominate our weather
02:43as we go through Sunday.
02:45This low just very slowly creeping
02:47towards northern Scotland.
02:48As it does, the isobars really squeezing together here.
02:50So very blustery on Saturday night and Sunday
02:53in the far north.
02:55Plenty of isobars elsewhere, though.
02:56So it's going to be a gusty, blustery Sunday
02:59with some sunny intervals and plenty of showers.
03:03And feeling a little cooler, although, again, temperatures
03:06will just be close to average.
03:07So it won't be particularly cold at all.
03:10The weather remains pretty mixed as we go into next week
03:12with further spells of wet and windy conditions to come.
03:15So stay up to date with the forecast.
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