Wednesday afternoon forecast 17/05/23

17 May - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

Transcript

00:00Hi there. For many of us it's another fine spring day but there will be some

00:05cloud and even some rain to talk about. The rain predominantly affecting the

00:10north and northwest of Scotland that moves in during the rest of the

00:13afternoon. Elsewhere across the UK areas of cloud bubble up and tend to spread

00:18out so not particularly sunny in a number of spots and that cloud will give

00:23the odd shower especially for northern, eastern and central parts of England but

00:26they will be fairly isolated for most. It's a dry afternoon and it's relatively

00:32warm 19-20 Celsius in the south and it's in the south and the west where the

00:36highest temperatures will be a little bit cooler for the North Sea coast a

00:40bit of a breeze coming in from the east there and certainly feeling cooler as

00:44the rain sets in for the north and northwest of Scotland. That rain not

00:47particularly heavy it will be damp through the afternoon and into the

00:51evening but tending to turn more drizzly overnight. Any moderate bursts confined

00:55to the northwest highlands. Elsewhere across the UK the cloud associated with

01:00that rainfall tends to spill south medium and high levels of cloud and so

01:04it's going to be well not entirely clear overnights but in the south and

01:09southeast that's where the clearest skies will be and temperatures dipping

01:12into the single figures here but a milder night to come further north

01:16temperatures in many places holding up in the double figures. So outbreaks of

01:22light rain and drizzle for Scotland first thing Thursday that tends to

01:26peter out for a time and then some more persistent wet weather moves into the

01:30far northwest by the lunchtime period and that starts to affect Northern

01:35Ireland as well as go through the afternoon. Otherwise most places will be

01:39again dry and bright the best of any sunny spells will be in the south but

01:42with a slight change in wind direction in the east it will be a warmer

01:46afternoon with temperatures here in the high teens perhaps even 20 Celsius and

01:5021 Celsius possible somewhere in the south given some sunshine. Slightly

01:56warmer as well for Scotland and Northern Ireland even if it is increasingly

01:59cloudy and damp as the afternoon wears on and the weather front bringing this

02:04this cold front sinks southwards during Thursday evening it breaks up into

02:09showers and as that progresses into England and Wales through Thursday night

02:14and into Friday well it's going to bring scattering of showers I think across

02:19central and southern parts of the UK on Friday itself interspersed by sunny

02:24spells. Scotland and Northern Ireland seeing brighter skies on Friday but it

02:28will feel a bit cooler and then really into the weekend we've got this broad

02:32swathe of high pressure across the UK so for many places it's another fine spell

02:37of weather with sunny spells but the odd shower will still be around.