Saturday Morning Forecast 25/11/23

24 November -  National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hello, very good morning to you. It's a cold start out there, a widespread frost, not something

00:05we've seen much of this season so far. Many people will welcome that compared with the

00:11mild and wet weather we've seen so much of but nevertheless it is going to be chilly

00:15first thing with temperatures in main urban areas minus one or so. In the countryside

00:21down as low as minus five Celsius for parts of the southwest, minus eight for example

00:26for parts of northwest England and western Scotland. But despite the chill actually beautiful

00:33blue skies for the vast majority, still some showers coming in on a strong northerly wind

00:39for the east coast. They'll tend to become more isolated as that wind eases into the

00:44afternoon so just one or two then and mostly these are rain and hail showers mainly just

00:48affecting say parts of Norfolk by the afternoon, one or two continuing across the Northern

00:53Isles in the far north of Scotland. Otherwise for the vast majority it is sunny skies and

00:58for some central parts barely a cloud in the sky so a crisp but cold and bright autumn

01:05day. There will be some cloud building towards the west but for the vast majority dry, bright

01:10five to eight Celsius in the south, three or four further north. Into the evening the

01:16cloud in the west starts to gather a bit more widely but before that happens actually temperatures

01:23will fall quickly. A widespread frost once again forming as soon as the sun goes down

01:27those temperatures will be dropping away and of course that happens quite early on in the

01:30evening at this time of year. The showers in the east do move away though so it's across

01:35northern and eastern parts where the skies will remain clearest for longest overnight

01:39and that's where the widespread frost will be most likely as we start off Sunday. Meanwhile

01:44temperatures will actually rise through the night further west and for Northern Ireland,

01:48western parts of England and Wales as well as the southwest of Scotland generally frost

01:52free but cloudy as we begin Sunday with outbreaks of rain already starting to push into the

01:58far west as a occluded front moves in. This occluded front is tied to an area of low pressure

02:05and that low pressure has big consequences on how the weather behaves throughout next

02:09week and how much this cold air to the east will affect us and there's a video explaining

02:14all of this on our YouTube site so do check that out if you want more detail. But for

02:20Sunday itself what that low pressure essentially does is it pushes an area of cloud and rain

02:24into Northern Ireland, western England, Wales first thing, southwest Scotland as well. Staying

02:30bright across central and parts of northern Scotland although further showers into Shetland

02:35and the east of England also staying bright but we'll see areas of cloud move in, mostly

02:39medium and high level clouds so the sky is generally clouding over by the afternoon.

02:45But it's across southwest Scotland, western England and Wales where it stays damp throughout

02:49much of the day. There'll be some heavier bursts of rain as well for parts of west Wales

02:52into the southwest of England, a freshening breeze, all in all perhaps not feeling quite

02:57as pleasant as Saturday's crisp blue skies. Eleven Celsius though it will be a bit milder

03:04although I imagine it probably won't feel that mild given the rain that's coming out

03:09of the sky. Further east five or six Celsius so another cold day, three or four at best

03:15for central Scotland but that's where the best of the blue skies will remain. Then later

03:19Sunday these areas of rain do move east and clear away and as that happens we're likely

03:26to see a return to colder but for a time next week drier weather and then what happens after

03:32that as I mentioned covered on our YouTube channel.