Saturday Evening Forecast 05/08/2023

05 August - National weather forecast presented by Rachel Ayers.

Transcript

00:00Hello and welcome to our latest weather update from the Met Office. So we've seen Storm Antony

00:06bringing some wet and windy weather across the UK today, but let's have a look at what

00:11this evening has in store. Now Storm Antony will slowly clear away to the southeast with

00:16those wind warnings ending, but we could still see some heavy showers or thunderstorms for

00:21a time across the southeast, with the remnants of Storm Antony washing back round into East

00:27Anglia to bring some blustery conditions and outbreaks of rain there into the early hours of

00:31Sunday. Elsewhere it'll be a mostly dry night, so we could see some showers for western areas,

00:38winds generally becoming light too, with some clear spells around, so that will help those

00:43temperatures drop a bit tonight, generally remaining in the double figures in towns and

00:48cities, though in rural areas especially across central and northern parts, seeing those

00:53temperatures drop down into the single figures. So a brighter, calmer and drier start to the

00:59second half of the weekend. We'll see the remnants of Storm Antony still just clinging

01:04on to the far east for a time on Sunday, but that will soon clear away, clearing those

01:09blustery conditions with it, so leaving a day of sunshine and showers. These showers

01:15will be heaviest across Scotland and northern England, with a chance of a thunderstorm across

01:20Northern Ireland for Sunday, but for many it'll be a dry day, feeling quite pleasant as well in

01:26those lighter winds and that sunshine, so temperatures faring a little bit better on

01:30Sunday compared to Saturday, with highs of 20 to 21 in the south. Moving into Sunday evening,

01:38and we'll slowly see those showers start to ease, and they'll become increasingly confined to

01:44northern areas. Elsewhere, plenty of clear spells, more in the way of clear spells than what we're

01:50expecting for Saturday night, and once again with those light winds around, that's going to help

01:55those temperatures drop as we go into the start of the new week. Once again, generally seeing

02:01temperatures staying in the double figures for towns and cities, but more widely in rural areas

02:06seeing them drop into the single figures. So it'll make for a cool but bright start to the second week

02:12of August, generally dry as well, though we will see more persistent showers moving into western

02:18Scotland, making their way east, where we'll see the heaviest showers through Monday. Otherwise

02:24there'll be a few light showers around elsewhere, but more in the way of sunshine on Monday than what

02:30we're expecting for Sunday, and again with those light winds, it's going to be feeling pretty

02:34pleasant in the sunshine, so temperatures faring a little better for some on Monday, highs of 23

02:41possible in any more persistent sunshine in the southeast. But let's have a look at what the

02:47weather has in store for Tuesday. Well, things getting a little duller as we go into the second

02:53day of the week, with cloud and outbreaks of rain and drizzle affecting mostly western areas.

02:58Best chance of any sunshine will be in the east, and those temperatures will be a touchdown for

03:03some compared to what we're expecting for Monday at or just below the average for the time of year.

03:09We could start to see things warming up a little bit as we go towards Wednesday.

03:14Thank you for listening, and for all the latest weather updates on our warnings and the forecast,

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