Thursday evening forecast 05/10/23

5 October - National weather forecast presented by Ellie Glaisyer.

Transcript

00:00Hello. Whilst we're likely to see some warmer temperatures over the weekend, there's also

00:04quite a lot of rain around, particularly for parts of Scotland. This is all due to a large

00:09area of low pressure out to the west of the UK, bringing a trailing frontal system across

00:13much of Scotland through Saturday and Sunday. But further south, a high pressure building,

00:19bringing a southerly airflow and some warmer temperatures, particularly to the southern

00:22half of the UK through Saturday and Sunday. Back to the here and now though, through Thursday

00:27evening, plenty of rain around, particularly for Scotland, northern England, parts of Wales

00:32and Northern Ireland as well, this rain turning particularly heavy over any high ground. Generally

00:37quite a cloudy picture elsewhere, although some clear spells developing, particularly

00:40across the south of the UK. And this could lead to the odd patch of mist and fog into

00:44Friday morning. Quite a mild night, particularly compared to what we saw last night. Many places

00:49holding up into the double figures, but perhaps just a little cooler under any clearer spells

00:53across southern parts through Friday morning. So generally, it'll be a very cloudy start

00:59to the day on Friday. That rain continues to spread its way eastwards through the day

01:03on Friday, but further south, plenty of sunshine developing as we head into the afternoon.

01:08And for Scotland as well, particularly eastern Scotland, there'll be plenty of sunshine as

01:12we head through Friday afternoon before the cloud starts to build and that rain pushes

01:16up from the southwest later on Friday. Feeling warm in that sunshine, particularly across

01:21southern parts of England and Wales through Friday afternoon, we could see highs of 20

01:25to 22 degrees, but further north where that rain persists and particularly for northern

01:29parts of Scotland, just feeling a little cooler and a little closer to average for the time

01:33of year. As we go through Friday evening, that band of rain continues to spread its

01:39way eastwards and northwards through Friday evening and into Saturday morning, bringing

01:43some very heavy and persistent rain to parts of southern and central Scotland. Some areas

01:48could see 70 to 75 millimetres of rain with some high ground perhaps seeing up to 150

01:53millimetres, so some local impacts likely here. Further south, though, plenty of clear

01:58skies overnight, perhaps some isolated mist and fog and some low cloud affecting those

02:02western coasts into Saturday morning. Through the day on Saturday, that band of rain persists

02:08across much of central and southern Scotland as we go through into Saturday afternoon.

02:13Further south, though, away from that frontal band of another very pleasant day, plenty

02:17of sunshine as we head into the afternoon and with some light winds, it will be feeling

02:21very warm in that sunshine too. Away from that frontal band as well, though, in the

02:25very far north of Scotland, perhaps a bit of a brighter day, although a few scattered

02:28showers here. As I said, feeling very warm in that sunshine through Saturday afternoon,

02:34we could see those highs reaching 23, 24 degrees, but under that cloud and rain across that

02:39central slice of Scotland, not feeling much above 12 or 13 degrees here, so definitely

02:43a different feel compared to southeast England. As we head through Sunday, those warm conditions

02:49across the south of the UK persist. We could see highs of 25, 26 degrees and turning a

02:55little bit more settled further north before that band of rain sinks its way southwards

02:59through the day into Monday and into the start of next week, bringing something a little

03:03bit fresher as we head towards next weekend. But you can find out more about that on our

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