Thursday evening forecast 16/03/23

16 March - National evening weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there, plenty of rain or showers to talk about over the next few days, but one thing

00:05we'll all notice is it's going to be milder compared with the last few days. Milder even

00:10for the far north of Scotland, although we are clinging onto some colder conditions here.

00:15Temperatures around average for northern Scotland, but across the rest of the UK it's above average

00:18even though we've got a cold front moving through. Temperatures aren't dropping much

00:22as we go through the night, lots of cloud remains and that cold front is still bringing

00:26some spells of rain for East Anglia and southern counties of England. The rain easing off

00:30for a time before pepping up again towards the end of the night. Elsewhere it showers,

00:33some lively showers for Northern Ireland and then into central and southern Scotland, perhaps

00:37even some rumbles of thunder or persistent damp weather into the far north of Scotland.

00:41A lot of cloud on the map, not many breaks in that cloud and so with the wind coming

00:46from the south and south west it is going to be a frost free night. Temperatures dipping

00:50to the mid to high single figures. But it's a grey and damp start for many. The rain as

00:56you can see starts to turn heavier and more persistent once again across the south east

01:00and east Anglia. That lingers until after lunch time I think in places. Otherwise brighter

01:05skies start to emerge, but quite a number of showers and those showers will be in places

01:11fairly heavy with hail and thunder, especially across central parts of England. Although

01:15away from the showers in central England and towards the north east, that's where the highest

01:19temperatures will be. So generally 11-14 Celsius but where we get some sunshine and

01:24a bit of a fern effect, perhaps 16 Celsius is possible. One exception to the milder feel,

01:32the north of Scotland, especially around Caithness, Sutherland into Lewes, an area of low cloud

01:36persisting here, some drizzly stuff and temperatures at around 4-5 Celsius inland. Brighter skies

01:43though for Shetland and for Orkney, just one or two rain showers here. And the showers

01:47continue in many spots on Friday night. It's looking like another cloudy night with further

01:53outbreaks of rain or showers, a very messy picture as you can see. The showers tending

01:57to ease off across central and eastern and the far north areas by the end of the night,

02:04continuing towards the west and more especially the north west of Scotland. Another frost

02:09free night to come away from the very far north of Scotland where if we get some cloud

02:13breaks there is the potential because of that colder airflow there. However, Saturday

02:19starts off with a lot of cloud. Showers from the word go and I think for northern and western

02:24Scotland the showers merging to longer spells of rain for a time, some uncertainty about

02:29the rainfall distribution across Scotland on Saturday. But it does look like there will

02:32be some wet weather about, increasingly windy in the far north of Scotland. Otherwise, light

02:37winds across England and Wales. Sunny spells, yes, but also some slow moving heavy downpours,

02:43hail and thunder couldn't be ruled out as well, especially across central and north

02:46eastern parts of England. But again, it's here where the highest temperatures will be,

02:5113 or 14 Celsius widely, 15, maybe even 16 degrees in some of the warmer spots. Not feeling

02:58so warm again in the north of Scotland where it turns increasingly windy on Saturday night

03:02and that wind potentially reaching gale force around the northern isles. Wet weather then

03:07moving through and for many, Sunday starts off drier and brighter before more rain heads

03:13in from the west by the end of the day.