Friday evening forecast 10/11/23
10 November - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern
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00:00Hi there, it's been a blustery week of weather with quite a few showers but
00:04those showers tend to ease overnight and as we start the weekend plenty of fine
00:09weather out there. Having said that a few showers will continue through the hours
00:12of darkness especially for northern Scotland where with a northerly wind
00:16those showers will be falling as snow over the mountains. Northern Ireland also
00:19seeing a few showers continuing as well as northwest England into parts of the
00:23Midlands, West Wales and the southwest of England. But the winds ease and for many
00:27the skies do clear overnight and that leads to temperatures falling away
00:32widely. A chilly night with many places seeing a frost as we start off the day
00:38on Saturday. In fact in towns and cities 1 to 3 Celsius in rural spots below
00:45freezing and there'll be a few fog patches about first thing because those
00:48winds will be light. In fact we're in what's known as a cold that's where
00:52neither low pressure nor high pressure really is in charge. You can see the UK
00:57sitting there with barely an isobar on the chart as we begin our armistice day
01:00with low pressure moving away to the east and another low approaching from
01:04the west and some weather fronts to deal with from the southwest towards the end
01:08of the day. But initially there will be one or two showers moving through the
01:12Midlands, East Anglia, North Wales. They tend to ease away and then really the
01:16only place where we're going to see a couple of showers continue into the
01:19afternoon is the north of Scotland perhaps some North Sea coast seeing the
01:23odd shower but otherwise for the vast majority it's a blue skies afternoon
01:29with plenty of fine weather out there and with light winds after that chilly
01:33start it's a perfectly fine crisp autumn day. Not the kind of day we've seen a lot
01:38of this autumn so far. Having said that there's another area of rain starting to
01:44move in by this stage affecting the Scilly Isles and by the end of the
01:47afternoon the far southwest of Cornwall. The winds picking up as well quite a
01:52gusty breeze attached to that area of rain. The rain moves across the rest of
01:57Cornwall through the evening pushing into Devon, South Wales through the early
02:02hours of Sunday. Elsewhere across the UK we keep the light winds, we keep the
02:07clear skies and so an even more widespread frost and even colder air as
02:11we begin Remembrance Sunday. In fact parts of Scotland could get down to
02:15minus five to minus eight Celsius, sheltered glens, and there'll be a few
02:20fog patches around as well. More widespread fog across parts of Northern
02:25and Eastern England particularly through Yorkshire into Lincolnshire and actually
02:29this will be slow to clear through Sunday so a gloomy start for many and
02:33that cold starts with the widespread frost in the north and the east but
02:36temperatures will be recovering through the night towards the southwest as the
02:40cloud rain and wind pick up. And then this divide on Sunday across the country
02:47we've got cold but bright weather once any early fog has cleared in the east
02:52but further west gloomy skies, a lot of cloud cover, initially damp conditions
02:57but increasingly the rain turning heavier and more persistent. Showery
03:00outbreaks of rain generally affecting Northern Ireland, Western England and
03:03Wales and this sheet of cloud covering the rest of England coming in over the
03:09top of the fog in the east of England and Northern England and reaching
03:13southern and central Scotland by the afternoon. We keep the bright skies
03:16though for northern Scotland one or two showers, for Shetland but that
03:20temperature contrast that we'll see as we begin the day continues into the
03:24afternoon. It's going to be quite cold I think where the fog persists through
03:28parts of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire six to eight Celsius but in one or two spots
03:33actually lower than that if we see some stubborn fog but for northern Scotland
03:38cold and bright. Now for the rest of the UK as the wind and rain arrive
03:43temperatures will be rising 13 to 14 Celsius towards the southwest so no not
03:48feeling very pleasant obviously as that wind and rain move in. Into next week
03:53more unsettled weather on the way so for many of us a fine start to the weekend a
03:58brief gap between weather systems.