Thursday Evening Forecast 14/12/23

14 December - National Weather Forecast presented by Annie Shuttleworth

Transcript

00:00Good evening, welcome to your latest update. Many of us have seen a sunny end to the day

00:05and those clearer skies will persist through much of the night. They'll even spread into

00:09its southeastern areas of England where it's been a rather dull day. So plenty of dry and

00:14clear weather overnight to come and as a result, temperatures will drop off quite quickly so

00:18it will be a chillier night tonight. In the south and east where we've had that drizzly

00:22rain through the day, we could see some mist and fog developing as well as a touch of frost

00:27but rurally temperatures dipping down as low as minus two. But in towns and cities, one

00:32or two degrees, that's enough to cause some frost on the car by the morning. However,

00:37in the north and west, though, it's going to be a mild night and that's because we've

00:40got particularly strong winds across here through tonight and through much of the weekend

00:45as well. You can see how tightly packed the ice bars are and that means that shows you

00:49the strength of the wind. We've also got these frontal systems skirting along to the north.

00:54These will wiggle and wave over the weekend, marking the boundary between the cold air

00:58to the north and the exceptionally mild air building in from the south. And as that mild

01:03air arrives into Friday morning, we'll see some cloud thicken from the west across parts

01:07of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland and some drizzly rain arrive as well. It'll be

01:12fairly light and patchy through the morning, but will turn more persistent into the afternoon.

01:17There'll also be some rain across parts of Wales and the Pennines into the afternoon

01:21as well. Across the south and east, though, it'll be a much brighter day than recent days

01:26with plenty of sunshine into the afternoon. But temperatures will struggle after the chilliest

01:30start, eights or nines, but much milder further west with 11 or 12 degrees for many areas.

01:37That milder feel will continue to build into Friday night and to Saturday morning as we

01:41see that milder really start to build up from the south and west. It'll stay dry for many

01:46central and southern areas of the UK overnight on Friday night and into Saturday morning.

01:51There'll be some clearer spells across the south and east, but much of the rain will

01:55be restricted to parts of Northern Ireland and mainly northern areas of Scotland. And

01:59the winds will really start to strengthen overnight. But temperatures won't dip down

02:04much at all. In fact, the nighttime temperatures are expected to be higher than the daytime

02:10averages for this time of year. For many areas, we could see temperatures not dipping down

02:13below 11 degrees across the far north of Scotland. So very mild start to the weekend and it will

02:20continue on that theme. We'll see a lot of clouds still coming in from the west. I think

02:24Saturday will be the drier day of the weekend for southern and central areas, but there's

02:29still a lot of rain to come across the far north of Scotland and rainfall totals will

02:33slowly build up here. It'll be a mild day with highs of 11 or 12 degrees for many areas

02:39and milder day in the south and east than Friday. But as I said, a wet day across the

02:44north west of Scotland and it will continue to rain through Saturday night and into Sunday

02:49morning. Then as a result, there is a weather warning in force for these areas. If you want

02:54a full detailed forecast for your weekend, make sure you take a look at our weekend forecast

02:59on YouTube and I'll see you later.