Monday evening forecast 24/04/23

24 April - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hello, gardeners beware, a widespread frost is expected on Monday night with Arctic air

00:05lying across the whole of the UK, winds from the north. Those winds have brought wintry

00:09showers to much of the north of the UK. Any accumulation is really confined to the hills

00:14and mountains of Scotland and those showers will continue overnight whilst the showery

00:18rain that we've seen further south disappears into the continent, then clearing skies widely,

00:24especially inland whilst showers continue to affect some coastal areas. And with those

00:28clear skies and with the winds easing a touch, I think widely temperatures will be a degree

00:32or two either side of zero and as low as minus four to minus six Celsius for some sheltered

00:37highland glens. So chilly for all of us as we begin Tuesday but bright skies, plenty

00:42of sunshine around first thing, certainly a lot more sunshine compared with Monday and

00:47we keep those sunny skies until later in the morning when the cloud does tend to build

00:51inland. There'll be further showers affecting some coastal areas, especially around Irish

00:55sea coast and the north of Scotland will continue to see sleet, hail and snow showers, although

01:00any accumulations really confined to the higher parts and only a centimetre or so at that

01:06anyway. Still below average temperatures and feeling particularly cold in the wind, but

01:11where we're out of the wind and got a bit of sunshine, actually not feeling too unpleasant

01:17I suspect. Then into Tuesday evening the cloud tends to disappear once again and a widespread

01:22frost begins to form. One exception, towards the southwest we're going to see thicker

01:28layers of cloud begin to arrive and you'll notice some patchy light outbreaks of rain

01:33pushing into Cornwall and perhaps reaching Devon and Dorset by the end of the night.

01:39Frost free here but elsewhere towards the north and the east another frosty one as we

01:43begin Wednesday. Albeit with bright skies though with Scotland and northern England

01:47seeing the sunniest conditions first thing, still some wintry showers for the far north

01:51east of Scotland but really that's where they will be confined to. Rain showers more

01:56likely across central and southern Scotland into northern England and thicker cloud with

02:01some outbreaks of light rain and drizzle towards the south and southwest of England with a

02:05lot of low cloud here covering the hills leading to a gloomy and damp day and some sea fog

02:11just off the coast of Cornwall as well. Fairly dreary conditions towards the southwest then

02:16but 13 Celsius here whilst the brighter skies towards the northeast will be prevalent with

02:23temperatures of 7 to 9 Celsius. Then heading into Wednesday night we'll see even thicker

02:29cloud arrive from the southwest so frosty conditions largely confined towards the northeast

02:35and these weather fronts bringing increasingly cloudy and damp weather in from Thursday into

02:41Friday with some heavy rain likely across southern parts on Thursday night before things

02:46turn warmer on Friday and into the weekend. More details on that in the Met Office week

02:51ahead forecast which you'll be able to find on our YouTube channel.