Friday afternoon forecast 11/08/23

11 August - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hi there, following a fine few days, showers return this weekend but not

00:06everyone will get wet. All the time there'll be some dry and brighter

00:09weather out there, certainly for Friday afternoon for much of England and Wales

00:12it's largely dry, an area of cloud across East Anglia and the southeast as a cold

00:18front moves through. That cold front's still bringing at the time of recording

00:21some more persistent rain to Shetland and Orkney, that turning more showery into

00:24the afternoon. The bulk of the showers though across Scotland, northern England

00:27into Northern Ireland and some of these showers will be fairly heavy.

00:31Well we do get some sunshine coming through, most notably across parts of

00:35Lincolnshire for example and Yorkshire, temperatures still managing to get up to

00:3926-27 Celsius. Elsewhere a fresher feel as the wind picks up and cooler air

00:46arrives behind the cold front. Then as we go into Friday evening the showers ease

00:50away in many spots initially, especially towards the east but towards the west

00:54more organised bands of showery rain push into Northern Ireland by midnight

00:59and then to Western Scotland during the early hours. Now as the cloud and the

01:03showers arrive and as the breeze picks up, well it's not going to be a cold

01:07night, certainly it's still relatively warm, 15-16 Celsius but perhaps not

01:11feeling quite as muggy as the last couple of nights in many places. A bright

01:16start to the day in the north and the east but towards the west we've got low

01:19pressure driving frequent showers in, tightly packed isobars towards the west

01:24as well, so a breezier day to come on Saturday and these little occluded

01:28fronts bringing more organised spells of showers in from the west as well and

01:33that's what we've got first thing across Western Scotland, so more like longer

01:36spells of wet weather here and that moves progressively eastwards across the

01:41country during Saturday. A lively day then with blustery winds and frequent

01:47spells of showery rain, especially across Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern

01:51England and Wales. Further to the southeast, well the further southeast you

01:56are the drier it will be, still the potential for a shower or two for East Anglia

02:01in the southeast but actually a lot of fine weather here, some sunny spells

02:05coming through at times as well and a bit less breezy, temperatures close to

02:09average here will mean that it will possibly feel more pleasant compared

02:13with last weekend but it's not going to feel particularly pleasant where we've

02:18got that breeze in the north and northwest driving these showers and

02:22longer spells of rain through at times. Odd rumble of thunder in the north as

02:26well, that's where the liveliest downpours will be and really that

02:30continues into Saturday evening and overnight, Sunday then brings with it

02:34more showers, Monday longer spells of rain but from Tuesday onwards a drying

02:42up trend into next week.