Thursday afternoon forecast 06/04/23

06 April - National weather forecast presented by Alex Burkill.

Transcript

00:00Hello, very good day to you. Plenty of showers as we go through Thursday, some of them heavy

00:04with the risk of some lightning and thunder too. If we take a look at what happened earlier

00:09and you can see the rain that many of us had yesterday and overnight is now clearing away

00:13towards the east but plenty of showers have already started to follow in behind and some

00:18of them have turned quite heavy. As we look through the rest of Thursday then and yes

00:23there will be some rain lingering across the far east and northeast of Scotland. Otherwise

00:27though it's a day of sunny breaks and some showers. Watch out though there could be some

00:31hefty downpours with the risk of hail, lightning and thunder particularly across central and

00:35eastern parts of the UK. Temperatures are a touch above average for the time of year

00:39and feeling a little bit more pleasant than yesterday when it was quite a wet day for

00:42many. As we go through the end of the day on Thursday we are going to see this ridge

00:47of high pressure building from the west so that should quieten things down and with high

00:50pressure then building as we go through into Good Friday we are going to see a lot of fine

00:55settled weather and with that some decent warm sunshine too and that continues at least

00:59through the first half of the Easter weekend. Taking a look at the details through the end

01:04of the day on Thursday many of the showers in the west easing because of that ridge of

01:07high pressure some continuing in the east but it is going to turn largely dry as we

01:11go through the night with often clear skies. As a result through the early hours of Good

01:16Friday we could see a touch of frost in prone spots and watch out for some fog patches or

01:20perhaps some freezing fog as well. As we go through Good Friday itself then we are

01:25going to see a little bit of low clouds starting to feed into some North Sea coastal parts

01:29could see a few spots of rain here otherwise though it's a fine picture. Lots of sunshine

01:34to be had as well barely a cloud in the sky for some places and in the sunshine it is

01:40going to feel pleasantly warm. Temperatures similar to Thursday perhaps a touch higher

01:44but with a decent amount of sunshine and barely any risk of any showers it is going to be

01:49a fine day for most. It's almost like the weather doesn't know it's a bank holiday.

01:53As we go through the end of the day on Good Friday we are going to hold on to the generally

01:57calm weather still some cloud and a few spots of rain for some North Sea coastal parts but

02:02otherwise lots of clear skies. So again it is going to turn quite chilly so we'll see

02:06the return of a few fog patches and perhaps a touch of frost as we wake up on Saturday

02:11morning. Otherwise and as we look ahead through the rest of the weekend and yes Saturday is

02:15looking like a mostly fine day but some unsettled weather starting to push in from the northwest

02:19later on Easter Sunday before more unsettled weather arrives as we go through Easter Monday.

02:24A bit of uncertainty as to the timing of this rain but it does look like it's going to come

02:29through Easter Sunday night into Monday with the worst of it clearing then by the time

02:32most of us wake up on Easter Monday. But either way there will be some showery rain following

02:37in behind so this definitely does look like the wettest day of the long weekend. Now there's

02:41more information on the forecast for the long Easter weekend on both the Met Office website

02:46our app and of course our social media channels. I'll see you later.