Saturday afternoon forecast 01/04/23

01 April - National weather forecast presented by Jonathan Vautrey.

Transcript

00:00Hello there. April is getting off pretty much to where March left off on the rather cloudy

00:06and damp theme for many of us. We've got this lingering occluded front that's been persisting

00:11across southwest England, Wales and certainly into Northern Ireland first part of this morning,

00:16bringing a band of rain heavy in places and has caused a bit of localised flooding. Elsewhere,

00:22there is some rain wanting to push its way into eastern coastal areas, but parts of northwest

00:26England up into northern Scotland actually seeing some brighter skies first thing,

00:30and it's the northern isles where we'll hold on to the best of the sunshine throughout the rest

00:34of the day. The rain in the west will gradually ease out, but it is going to continue on and off

00:39throughout the day. Whoever spots a drizzle wants to push into areas of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire,

00:44thanks to an easterly breeze off the North Sea. And in that breeze, it is going to feel quite

00:49chilly here. Coastal areas of England and Scotland not seeing much higher than seven,

00:54eight or nine degrees Celsius. Areas more towards the west will be slightly milder,

00:59highs of 13 or 14 degrees across Wales and southwest England. Into this evening,

01:05the rain will continue to ease off across Northern Ireland, but probably push more now

01:09into parts of western Scotland and generally western areas will hold onto the cloud throughout

01:14the night. In the east, though, we start to feed in some drier air from Scandinavia,

01:19and that's just going to allow the cloud to break up a bit more. Parts of Aberdeenshire,

01:22Northumberland down into North Yorkshire. So underneath those clearer skies, temperatures

01:27will drop off a bit more here. Lows of two degrees across Aberdeen, three degrees for

01:32parts of Newcastle, but holding up a bit more elsewhere underneath that cloud. It's into Sunday

01:38where we'll see more significant changes in our weather, and that is thanks to high pressure that

01:42is wanting to build its way in, and that will help settle things down. Our winds will ease out,

01:47and it's also going to help decay that occluded front away. For the start of Sunday,

01:52there will still be some outbreaks of rain for parts of Scotland into eastern coasts of Northern

01:57Ireland and can't rule out the odd spot of rain for Wales and southwest England throughout the

02:00day as well. But for southern Scotland, central eastern areas of England, the cloud is going to

02:05continue to break up and Sunday is looking like a pretty fine day to be out and about with a lot

02:11of good prolonged sunshine. Temperatures still slightly cool when you're directly on that eastern

02:16coastal areas between eight and nine, but still pushing towards 10 degrees. Now we've got that

02:20sunshine in place, but still slightly milder as you head further inland and towards the west. As

02:27we move into the evening, the cloud is going to continue to break up even more and we will see a

02:31persistent number of clear intervals during the night. That's just going to allow temperatures

02:36to drop off more widely though, and so we'll see a more widespread frost develop come the first part

02:41of Monday morning, and we'll see some further chilly nights as we head throughout the new

02:45working week as well. For some of us though, it's not going to be a working week because it is the

02:50start of the Easter holidays, and thankfully it is going to be fine and bright for many of us.

02:55Areas in the north and west though do just need to watch out for some rain that will want to push

02:59its way in more towards the middle part of the week, but in the south and east you are looking

03:04to stay relatively dry throughout much of the week. Do keep up to date with the fall forecast though,

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