Saturday Morning Forecast 18/11/23

18 November National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

Transcript

00:00Welcome along to what for most of us is a wet start to the weekend but generally

00:05the rain is shifting away and for many it'll brighten up a little bit as we go

00:09through Saturday. The reason for the rain not hard to spot is a huge area of low

00:14pressure out in the Atlantic. This will dominate our weather through the rest of

00:18the weekend as it edges closer. It's weather fronts are moving across right

00:23now and heading out into the North Sea but it will still still spiral bands of

00:28showers across the country as we head through tomorrow and the ice bar

00:32squeezing together as well so that tells us particularly in the south it's going to be quite windy on Sunday too.

00:37Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves however bring it back to the rest of

00:41today. These weather fronts currently making for a soggy start to Saturday.

00:44Some heavy bursts of rain especially in the southwest. A lot of spray and surface

00:49water on the roads here. Parts of the M4 and the M5. That heavier rain is migrating

00:54moving its way from west to east and clearing away. So Wales, southwest England,

00:58Midlands should brighten up before lunchtime. Northern and eastern England

01:02also cheering up although it may take most of the day before the rain

01:05completely clears from Norfolk and Kent. Scotland and Northern Ireland should

01:09also turn a little drier for a time but more showers coming in here through the

01:13afternoon particularly into western Scotland. Parts of the east may also brighten up.

01:17Quite windy across the Northern Isles and generally a pretty breezy day for

01:22most. That breeze will help to punch a few holes in the cloud and bring us a

01:25little bit of weak sunshine. But it's quite mild out. Temperatures with a bit of

01:30sunshine could easily reach 14, 15 maybe even 16 degrees Celsius. So quite mild

01:35although northern Scotland will stay in single figures here particularly where it stays

01:39fairly dank. There'll be more showers packing in across Scotland during this

01:43evening and for Northern Ireland. In fact for most places after some clearer weather

01:48for a time over England and Wales the showers return through the early hours

01:51blown along by a brisk wind. Notice there's the area of low pressure you can

01:56see it here and the winds in the south as I mentioned picking up through

02:00Saturday night and into Sunday. It all makes for a pretty mild start to Sunday

02:04double digits across much of the south. But it will be a blustery day again

02:09here particularly on the south coast and those winds will be bringing clouds and

02:14further showers. Now it's not going to rain all day. The rain will tend to come and go

02:18throughout. Something a bit drier in eastern Scotland maybe even a bit more

02:22sunshine poking out here. For Scotland the winds will probably be lighter on

02:25Sunday than Saturday but further south the winds will be a little stronger

02:29tomorrow. Temperatures again a touch above average getting into the teens

02:32across the south after that mild start. But it's not feeling all that mild if you're exposed to that

02:37gusty wind. As we go through Sunday evening we'll continue to see plenty of

02:41showers but into next week there are signs of high pressure heading in which

02:45should bring in something a bit drier for most of us. Don't forget if you're

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