Thursday afternoon forecast 11/05/23

11 May - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hello again, it's another day of sunny spells and heavy showers. The large cumulus and cumulonimbus

00:06clouds bubbling up soon enough and those showers in places bringing heavy rainfall in a short

00:12space of time, thunder, lightning and in a few spots hail. Now, some of these showers

00:18will form along convergence lines, that's where the winds come together to form shower

00:23after shower after shower. Where that happens there is the risk of impacts from these showers

00:27especially across central and eastern parts of the UK but also southern areas. Yellow

00:31thunderstorm warning in force. Now, because of the slow moving nature of these showers

00:35and because some of them will be organised into lines, of course that means that other

00:40places will avoid them entirely and stay dry with sunny spells, especially towards western

00:44areas and more especially western Scotland where the best of any drier and brighter weather

00:49will be. Mid to high teens generally are feeling warm where the sun does come through away

00:53from these showers and the showers do fade away quite quickly into the evening as temperatures

00:57drop. Still though, there will be a lot of cloud and increasingly an area of low cloud

01:03drifting in from the east through the evening and overnight and really that sets the theme

01:09for the next couple of days with this North Sea Stratus and that will bring some drizzle

01:14and some hill fog into eastern areas as well. But in the west, clear spells, temperatures

01:19dipping into the mid-single figures. However, where we've got the low cloud to start off

01:23Friday, it is a grey and fairly chilly day with some drizzle around the coast and some

01:29more patchy rain and drizzle coming into East Anglia and the south-east during the morning

01:34and that pushing into London and the rest of the south-east by the afternoon. Feeling

01:38cold with the low cloud, the wind off the North Sea and that patchy rain and drizzle,

01:43one or two showers further west but actually it's towards the west where we'll see the

01:45best of the sunshine and a marked temperature contrast, 10 to 12 Celsius along these North

01:50Sea coasts but high teens where we get the sunshine, somewhere like West Wales or Cornwall.

01:57Then into the evening, we'll see the patchy rain fade away but still this continued feed

02:02of Stratus, low grey cloud coming in from the North Sea and that will predominantly

02:08affect central and eastern parts of England while Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and

02:11the south-west will see clear spells coming through and a chilly start to the weekend.

02:16But actually, we've got a ridge of high pressure moving in for the weekend and that means that

02:21for most, it's dry and bright through Saturday. There will be that low cloud across eastern

02:26and central areas which will take some time to lift and retreat back to the coast and

02:31for some coastal areas, it will stay grey and cool through the day on Saturday but otherwise,

02:35plenty of fine weather before this weather front pushes into northern areas into Sunday.

02:40So the showers for one more day but then it turns more settled at least for a day or so

02:46into the weekend.