Saturday afternoon forecast 14/10/2023

14 October - National weather forecast presented by Jonathan Vautrey

Transcript

00:00Hello there, it certainly feels like autumn is in full swing now, you may even need your

00:05big coat whilst you're stepping outside this weekend. We've got northerly winds bringing

00:09in cold air from the Arctic sweeping its way across all areas of the UK. Notice as well

00:14how those ice bars are really quite tightly spaced together across the north east, we've

00:17seen 77 mph gusts of winds this morning across Fair Isle. Whilst those severe gales are easing

00:23off it is going to remain still quite a windy and blustery day for eastern areas, exacerbating

00:28that cold feel even more. There's northerly winds also bringing in showers for the north

00:33and west, will to be in wintry over the higher grounds of Scotland, maybe some hail to lower

00:37levels of Scotland and Northern Ireland as well. But some areas will stay largely dry

00:41throughout today, particularly Fife down towards East Anglia, that eastern side of the UK,

00:46seeing a good amount of sunny spells. Temperatures though, after we've seen above average temperatures

00:51for the past few weeks or so, noticeably down from that, even slightly below average for

00:56the middle of October, around 8 to 10 degrees Celsius, Scotland and Northern Ireland 12

01:00to 14 degrees Celsius for Wales and England. Any of the showers that we do have around

01:05inland will tend to ease their way off overnight, but probably still persisting across some

01:10western and northern coastal areas, perhaps pushing through the Cheshire Gap as well.

01:14Underneath the starry skies that we do see inland though, temperatures will be widely

01:18falling off, could be the coldest night of the autumn so far. Low single figures for

01:24many of our towns and cities, but certainly dropping below freezing in some rural spots.

01:29So quite a chilly start to Sunday morning. As we do head into Sunday though, it is high

01:34pressure that is increasingly going to be the main driver of our weather. You'll notice

01:39as well that those ice bars are spacing their way out, so the winds will be lighter on Sunday

01:44compared to what we have seen around throughout Saturday. Despite that chilly start though,

01:48a good amount of sunshine for many of us to compensate. The showers persisting across

01:53the far north of Scotland where it will be cloudier throughout the day, perhaps a few

01:56showers skirting the parts of East Anglia as well, but for many of us staying largely

02:00dry and a good amount of weather throughout the day. Temperatures though still around

02:0510 to 13 degrees Celsius, so feeling rather cold still, but at least some lighter winds

02:11to compensate for a little bit. A relatively fine end to the weekend for many of us as

02:16well. A little bit of late sunshine before the night begins to draw its way in. Staying

02:21dry for much of Northern Ireland, Wales and England again, just those showers persisting

02:25across the far north of Scotland. High pressure does look like it will stay in charge for

02:30most of the middle of next week as well, but perhaps something a little bit more unsettled

02:34arriving later on. But we'll have plenty of detail on that across our social media channels

02:38and we'll be back again very shortly. Bye bye.