Met Office Wednesday Afternoon Weather Forecast 21/02/2024

21 February - National Weather Forecast presented by Alex Deakin

Transcript

00:00Hello, brightening up in a few places this afternoon, but there is more rain to come

00:05and for some could get very gusty on Thursday as well. This is the view from space and there's

00:11a whole chain of cloud and rain bearing cloud at that's just pumping its way up towards

00:18the UK. We've seen a very, very soggy start to Wednesday, heavy burst of rain, particularly

00:24in the West, but now becoming widespread across all areas. It is starting to clear from Northern

00:28Ireland. Brighter skies here through this afternoon, also cheering up in Scotland, Wales

00:33and South West England and even further East. The rain should start to ease before sunset,

00:38staying pretty blustery, though, particularly across parts of Eastern England. It has been

00:43very mild and today temperatures again getting into the teens for a time, but it is going

00:47to turn a little colder over the next couple of days. As we go through this evening, for

00:52many it will be dry. There will still be a lot of spray and surface water on the roads

00:56and then look at this, more showers come packing into Scotland. This rather nasty looking

01:01line of quite heavy rain coming into parts of England and Wales by the end of the night

01:06as well. So further heavy rain falling onto saturated ground that could cause some problems.

01:11It'll be quite a mild night across the south, but it will start to turn a little colder

01:16further north, temperatures well down into single figures here. On to Thursday, it is

01:21a bit of a mishmash, but there will be some heavy rain around. Bands of rain moving across

01:25England and Wales in particular. Some uncertainty about the exact timing, but we could see some

01:30pretty intense bursts of rain and again falling onto very soggy ground. Something a bit brighter

01:36further north. Parts of northern England's largely staying dry through the afternoon

01:41with sunny spells. Same goes for eastern Scotland. Lots of showers in western Scotland and for

01:45northern Ireland. Quite breezy here as well. But some of the strongest winds are likely

01:50across the south as this area of rain moves in through the course of the day. We have

01:55both a wind and a rain warning in place as the pulses of rain move through. Three to

02:01six hours of rain, 20, 30, maybe 40 millimetres of rain. Not a huge amount, but because it

02:07has been so wet, these rainfall totals are likely to cause some further issues, some

02:12further flooding, some further travel disruption. And then also we have a yellow wind warning

02:17across the southeast. Gusty conditions here, particularly on the coast. It really does

02:22depend exactly on the development of that system, but those winds could cause some problems

02:26as they really whip up for a time through the afternoon. Temperatures will be dropping

02:30down values come the afternoon. Just close to average for the time of year. Nothing too

02:35remarkable about these temperatures, but you'll probably notice that difference just because

02:39it has been so very mild indeed. Please do keep up to date with the Met Office weather

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