Friday evening forecast 21/04/23

21 April - National weather forecast presented by Annie Shuttleworth.

Transcript

00:00Hello, it's turning much colder over the weekend and many of us will see some rain through

00:06the coming days but not all of us at the same time and that's because we've got low pressure

00:11in charge but that's swinging a variety of occluded fronts. So you see the purple fronts

00:17which are scattered across the country, not affecting all of one place at one time. But

00:23for all of us, we will then see that low pressure push off to the east and a cold northerly

00:28wind develop into the start of next week. But through the rest of Friday, before we

00:34get to the weekend, we've got an occluded front bringing some rain to many central areas

00:39of the UK, so Northern Ireland, Northern England and into the Midlands too, we'll see outbreaks

00:44of rain throughout the night. Further north though, we'll stick with that clearer weather

00:49and to the south too, however, pockets of frost and fog could develop. We're likely

00:54to see some hark encroach in from the North Sea as well across Northern Scotland by Saturday

01:00morning. So a bit of a mixed picture to the start on Saturday but some sunshine on offer,

01:05particularly across the south and the north despite the chilly start. Rain will become

01:10a little bit more widespread throughout the day, particularly affecting the likes of Northern

01:14Ireland, Southern Scotland, Northern England and some showers developing across the Midlands

01:18and North West England into the afternoon. We'll also see some shower outbreaks of rain

01:23affecting South Wales, South East England and temperatures will be around average for

01:29the time of year for many areas. However, with the best of that sunshine across Northern

01:34Scotland and the north west of Scotland is where we'll see the highest temperatures,

01:38highs of 16, possibly 17 degrees. Not quite as warm as Friday, but still pretty warm for

01:44the time of year. Then as we head through Saturday night, we'll see a lot of cloud around

01:50throughout the night, not quite as cold overnight. Many areas seeing some rain, some quite heavy

01:55rain pushing up from the channel into the south coast and parts of the Midlands. And the rain

02:00will also finally reach parts of Scotland, so much cloudier and wetter night. It'll also turn

02:06quite windy, as I said, frost free Sunday morning, but it's going to start to feel that much colder

02:14through Sunday. So that strong northerly wind will bring a very cold feel to northern areas

02:20of Scotland and perhaps some snow showers as well over the high ground at first to the south.

02:27Sunshine at times, but it's going to be pretty limited. Quite a few showers breaking out here

02:31and there, and these could be heavy, though in any sunny spells it will feel warm in the south.

02:38But any eastern coast still starting to feel that chilly breeze now hides around 11 or 12 degrees

02:46through Sunday. However, as I said, it's going to feel colder than that in the wind. And by the time

02:52we get to Monday to start a week, it's going to we're going to be rarely seeing any double digits

02:57across the country. So remaining quite cold into the start of next week. And with that,

03:02that will bring some wintry hazards too. So risk of frost and ice and snow to some northern areas

03:08into the start of next week. So keep up to date with the forecast and you can do that

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