Thursday afternoon forecast 20/07/2023

20 July - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there. Some fine weather to come during the next couple of days before low pressure

00:06returns this weekend. What we've got at the moment is a north-west of the airflow. No

00:11weather fronts close to the UK and as a result some dry and bright weather but the air from

00:17the north-west is cool and it's unstable so it does contain a lot of cloud and it contains

00:23some showers. The scattered showers that do occur on Thursday will be most frequent towards

00:28the north and the east, some heavy downpours in places but actually for some we'll be avoiding

00:34the showers and it will stay largely dry. Where that does occur, 22-23 Celsius in the

00:39south in any sunny spells with light winds will feel perfectly pleasant but we've got

00:46a brisk breeze towards the north and some longer spells of rain for Shetland not feeling

00:50so pleasant here. Then the showers in many places fade away into the evening but in some

00:57spots they will continue, central and eastern Scotland, northern Scotland as well. North-west

01:02England for example, parts of north Wales and northern Ireland just that signal for

01:07some longer spells of rain at times. A lot of cloud for northern Ireland, temperatures

01:12staying at 12 degrees here and in some main urban centres 11-13 Celsius but in sheltered

01:19rural spots where we've got the clear skies, for example central Scotland, 5-8 degrees

01:25so a bit of a chill first thing for the middle of July but actually some sunny spells and

01:30temperatures will rise however as those temperatures rise once again the clouds will bubble up

01:35and once again we'll see quite frequent showers, especially towards north-western areas first

01:39thing and then into the afternoon, northern and eastern Scotland, into northern and eastern

01:44England but some spots avoiding the showers altogether particularly towards the south

01:4820-21 perhaps 22 Celsius, a little on the cool side for the time of year but again feeling

01:55pleasant enough where we've got some sunshine coming through. Now for northern Ireland it's

02:00going to turn wetter by the afternoon and this is a sign of things to come. We've got

02:07that rain setting in, it's arriving from the west and it's just going to be a damp end

02:12to the week for northern Ireland and then north Wales, south-west Scotland seeing that

02:17rain by the end of Friday. A number of weather fronts on their way for the weekend then,

02:23an elongated area of low pressure, a fairly messy mix of cloud, rain, showers and quite

02:30a breeze at times as well into the weekend so increasingly unsettled. We'll have further

02:36details in the weekend forecast which you'll be able to find on YouTube later on Thursday

02:40but for now that's all from me, bye bye.