Thursday evening forecast 14/09/23

14 September – National weather forecast presented by Alex Burkhill.

Transcript

00:00Hello, the weather front that's been lingering across the UK for a few days now is going

00:05to continue for a little while yet. But you can see it's not just bringing some rain,

00:10it's also forming the boundary between warmer air towards the south and something a little

00:14bit cooler, a bit more fresher towards the north. It is going to try to push a little

00:18bit further northwards as we go through the end of the week and then through the weekend

00:22it's actually going to start to break up and clear away. We will then have a bit of high

00:26pressure towards the north but towards the south we're going to drag in something perhaps

00:31thundery from the south. As we look through the rest of Thursday and you can see that

00:36front lying across central parts of England and Wales, like I said it does edge further

00:40northwards so turning wet across northern England, southern Scotland and Northern Ireland

00:44through the early hours of Friday, staying clearer towards the far northwest of Scotland

00:48and here it could turn a little chilly, temperatures perhaps dropping to around 2 or 3 Celsius,

00:53also some clear skies towards the south. As we go through Friday morning itself then

00:58a wet start to the day here across this area, northern England, southern Scotland, Northern

01:03Ireland. The rain is going to be quite persistent through much of the day, it won't always be

01:07heavy but some heavy outbreaks are likely so we could see some totals building up, particularly

01:12across parts of southwest Scotland and eastern Northern Ireland. To the north of this we

01:16are going to see the cloud building somewhat and the risk of a few showers. Meanwhile for

01:20central southern England and Wales plenty of fine sunny weather here and temperatures

01:24getting into the mid-twenties. That front is not going to change much position as we

01:28go through the end of the day so still southern Scotland in particular staying stuck under

01:33that rain as we go through Friday night into Saturday morning which is why those totals

01:37are likely to build up. Further north northwest again some clear skies allowing temperatures

01:41to drop perhaps a touch lower than through Thursday night. Meanwhile across England and

01:46Wales there will be some clear skies but also some pockets of mist and fog. They should

01:50clear quite quickly first thing on Saturday morning and so for the bulk of England and

01:55Wales Saturday looks like a largely dry day with some bright sunny spells. The front like

02:00I mentioned before is breaking up and clearing away so places which have been stuck under

02:04the front for a little while by then will turn drier and brighter as we go into the

02:08afternoon and a good deal of sunshine perhaps across much of Scotland and north northwest

02:12and parts of Northern Ireland too. There will be some humid air across the south so

02:16temperatures likely to be peaking around 26, 27 Celsius perhaps but noticeably fresher

02:23further north. It's worth bearing in mind with that humid air we could see some showers

02:26developing as we go into the afternoon but it's into Sunday when we're really going to

02:31see some thundery activity coming up from the south initially across parts of the southwest

02:35spreading northwards as we go through the day. We could see 30 to 60 millimetres of

02:39rain perhaps in some places most likely like I said towards the southwest but generally

02:44many places at risk of seeing some thunderstorms. Notice that whilst in the south, southeast

02:49temperatures won't be quite as high on Sunday as they will be on Saturday. Further north

02:53where that front will have broken up and cleared away for some it will be that little bit warmer.

02:58I have more details on the weekend forecast on my weekend forecast which is available

03:02on YouTube so worth checking that out if you have anything planned. See you later.