Met Office Sunday Evening Weather Forecast 03/03/2024

03 March - National weather forecast presented by Craig Dewhurst.

Transcript

00:00Hello there. Welcome to your latest Met Office forecast. It's going to be a mixed picture

00:05over the next 24 hours and then it starts to settle down a little for a time anyway.

00:11And this area of low pressure will move in over the next 24 hours, but it then moves

00:14out the way. And as we move through the week, we see a battleground starting to set up low-pressure

00:19systems trying to move in from the Atlantic, this blocking area of high pressure keeping

00:24most of them away. Winds generally coming in from the south, so temperatures rising,

00:29perhaps turning a little more easterly by the end of the week and perhaps low pressure

00:33starting to return by the weekend. But for the rest of Sunday evening, clearing skies

00:39for many across the country. This will allow temperatures to fall away and then overnight

00:44with light winds, we will see some mist and fog patches forming, some freezing fog patches

00:49as temperatures fall below freezing in the countryside, minus 2 to minus 4 is possible

00:54once again. So there could be some tricky travelling conditions first thing, particularly

00:58across central southern England, eastern England, taking us into Monday morning. Looking

01:03at the temperatures, towns and cities close to freezing as I mentioned below in the countryside.

01:07However, it is all changed across the very far south-west, temperatures rising here on

01:12Monday morning as cloud and rain pushes in from the Atlantic, coming into the south-west

01:17then spreading into Wales, Northern Ireland by the afternoon. Some of this rain could

01:21be heavy at times accompanied by some gusty winds, but much of Scotland, northern and

01:25eastern England down into east Anglia staying dry and bright, the sunshine turning hazy

01:30by the afternoon, but plenty of dry weather to come. But the northern isles staying under

01:34a weather front with further outbreaks of light rain and drizzle here. In terms of temperatures,

01:39well generally reaching double figures as those winds coming in from the south, but

01:44just feeling a little chillier across some western areas under the cloud and the rain.

01:49This band of rain continues to push its way north and eastward through the evening time,

01:53though it starts to become lighter and patchier as it does so, and then during the early hours

01:57starts to stall across some eastern parts of England and Scotland. Further west, overnight

02:03we'll see some clear spells developing, but also a scattering of showers being blown in

02:08off the Atlantic on quite a keen westerly breeze there, and that will keep temperatures

02:13up, so a milder night compared to the weekend, temperatures generally above freezing. So

02:19a grey start across some eastern areas, a damp start with outbreaks of light rain and

02:24drizzle. This slowly pushes away elsewhere, sunny spells, but scattered showers in the

02:28west slowly pushing their way eastward, though most places generally staying dry as we move

02:33through into the afternoon. Temperatures again similar in the range of 7 to 12 Celsius, and

02:40winds a little lighter across some southwestern areas compared to Monday, it will feel a little

02:45milder here. And then generally looking at the week ahead, we've got an unsettled start

02:50with low pressure, generally then turns drier as high pressure from the east keeps weather

02:56fronts at bay. By the end of the week, after a mild few days, it does look like it might

03:00turn a little colder as the winds turn to an easterly direction, and perhaps the return

03:05of some wet weather from the southwest as well. If you'd like more information on the

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03:14See you again soon.