Met Office Thursday Evening Weather Forecast 22/02/2024

22 February - National weather forecast presented by Annie Shuttleworth.

Transcript

00:00Hello there welcome to the latest evening update from us here at the Met

00:03Office. The heaviest rain is now clearing to the southeast and behind it we'll see

00:07a mix of clear spells and showers but we'll also see some colder air moving in

00:12behind this weather front that's brought the heavy rain to many areas through

00:15today. It's a westerly breeze, the air is cooler than of late so it will feel much

00:19closer to the February average and that means that we're in for a colder night

00:24across the UK. We do have quite a brisk westerly breeze though and that will

00:27bring in showers from the west through tonight particularly across Wales the

00:30southwest and many western areas of Scotland and Northern Ireland seeing the

00:34most persistent showers through tonight. More eastern areas should stay dry once

00:38the last of that rain does clear for the over the next few hours so that means it

00:43will be a colder start to the day on Friday could be down as low as minus 3

00:48across northeastern areas of Scotland. Elsewhere low single figures but frost

00:51should be fairly limited because of the strength of the breeze. It'll stay

00:55breezy through Friday as well and we'll see some quite blustery and heavy showers

00:59pushing in from the west. These bring a risk of thunder and hail particularly

01:04for western areas parts of Wales northwest and Scotland as well in

01:08particular. In the east it should stay dry through the morning despite the

01:11chilly start so there'll be some good early sunshine however showers will

01:15likely move into the east by the afternoon. So in any sunny spells though

01:20we'll be feeling fairly pleasant highs of 7 or 8 in the north closer to 9

01:24and 10 in the south that's just above average for the time of year and with

01:27any long-lived sunny spells it'll feel fairly pleasant despite the westerly

01:31breeze and the cooler air than of late. Through Friday evening some showers will

01:36continue particularly across eastern areas and across the northwest of

01:39Scotland but generally it will turn drier as the night progresses. The winds

01:43will fall light as well and that will allow some mist and fog to develop. You

01:47can see that here across central and southeastern parts of England but also

01:50western areas southwestern areas of Scotland potentially seeing some fog so

01:54a bit of a murky start potentially murky start to the weekend. We'll also see a

01:58more widespread frost across more clearer areas parts of Wales and parts

02:03of northern England and Scotland too. So a chilly start to the weekend but a

02:07largely dry start away from any coastal areas where we could see some light

02:13showers continuing and Saturday should be a dry day for many. The mist and fog

02:18might take a little while to clear those central and southeastern areas but once

02:22it does there'll be long-lived sunny spells and the daylight hours are

02:26getting longer and longer so it's starting to feel quite pleasant in

02:29the sunshine despite the cooler temperatures than of later highs of nine

02:33or ten once again in the south and seven or eight further north. And on Sunday

02:38we'll see some further wet weather moving into the south there is some

02:42uncertainty in that so it's worth taking a closer look at our full weekend

02:45forecast on YouTube but across northern areas it should stay largely dry through

02:49the weekend. See you later.