Wednesday afternoon forecast 19/04/23

19 April – National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

Transcript

00:00Hello. The easterly breeze continues to bring a chill to North Sea coast, but also plenty

00:05of spring sunshine and not much rain. We did see a few showers, as you can see here on

00:10the radar across the southwest early this morning, but they have been drifting away

00:14and so for much the rest of the day, it is going to be dry and find quite a bit of cloud

00:18across some parts of central England and Wales, but melting away from eastern England, northern

00:24England, plenty of sunshine here for Northern Ireland and lots of sunshine across Scotland,

00:28always keeping a bit more cloud in the southwestern quarter, still a small chance of a shower,

00:33but the vast majority dry. That easterly breeze is bringing a fresh feel to eastern coasts,

00:3912, 13 at best and on the coast itself, maybe more like 10 or 11, but further west with

00:45a bit of shelter, again, western Scotland probably seeing the top temperatures, maybe

00:49not quite as high as the past couple of days, but we could still get 19, perhaps even still

00:54squeeze out of 20 Celsius. As we go through the evening, we'll see the cloud melting away

01:00further from the west, so most places become clear, some misty conditions over the Pennines

01:05perhaps and maybe on some eastern coast too, but generally it'll be dry and clear, enough

01:11of a breeze to stop temperatures dropping too low, but still it's going to be a fresh

01:15old start to Thursday down to threes and fours in towns and cities and some frost is likely

01:21over the hills of North Wales, Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. So yes, a chilly

01:27start to Thursday, but a cracking day by and large, still some mist and low clouds over

01:33the hills of Northern England and always the potential for some mist in an easterly wind

01:38to affect North Sea coast, particularly eastern coast of Scotland. But for most places, dry

01:43and sunny sums up Thursday with that easterly breeze again, bringing a fresh feel to North

01:48Sea coast. Come the afternoon, we are in for the start of a change with clouds splitting

01:54into East Anglia and the southeast and some showers possible here late in the day. Temperature

01:59wise, well again, that east-west split with eastern areas struggling to get into the teens

02:04and feeling colder on the coast with that breeze. Further west, temperatures closer

02:08to average and again, western Scotland, 17, 18 Celsius is likely, turning cooler as the

02:15breeze picks up and the cloud comes into the southeastern corner of the country during

02:19Thursday evening. Increasing chance of seeing some showers developing for East Anglia and

02:23the southeast during Thursday night and into Friday. And that is, as I say, the science

02:29of more of a change. Come Friday, quite a lot of cloud for England and Wales with some

02:33outbreaks of rain. Whereas we should hang on to the clearest skies for Scotland and

02:37Northern Ireland. With the clearest skies, particularly tomorrow night, there is a chance

02:41of seeing the aurora as well. For more on that, check out our social media feeds, particularly

02:46Twitter. And for more details on the outlook, make sure you catch our 10-day trend. That

02:51will be on YouTube for Wednesday afternoon.