Wednesday evening forecast 24/01/24

24 January - National weather forecast presented by Claire Nasir.

Transcript

00:00Hello there, welcome to your weather update from the Met Office. Now through

00:04the next 24 hours it's breezy and then it turns windy with some damaging gusts

00:08through Thursday night. Before that though as you can see here it's a fairly

00:13quiet evening on Wednesday before this weather front brings with it cloud, low

00:17cloud at that and also some outbreaks of rain pushing ever northwards with more

00:22rain to follow through Thursday afternoon and then this is an active

00:26feature which will bring squally winds as well as some heavy rain. It all

00:30clears off the scene by Friday and then we'll see the sun. Before that though

00:34clear skies across many parts through Wednesday evening temperatures falling

00:37away recovering towards the west with the onset of more cloud and some milder

00:42air also some outbreaks of rain but expect a frost across the northeast of

00:46Scotland through the early hours of Thursday morning and a chilly start to

00:49the day across eastern counties of England. It will be wet for Northern

00:52Ireland, the far southwest of Scotland as well as Wales, northwest England,

00:57central southern England as well. Temperatures here by mid-morning will

01:01reach double figures, the air is that mild. So through a Thursday morning we

01:06watch as this wet weather continues its passage across Scotland. A bright start

01:11for Caithness, Orkney and Shetland but more clouds and then eventually some

01:14rain here. It's a keen wind coming up from a mild direction, patchy rain and

01:20drizzle and low cloud will follow that rain but some breaks particularly across

01:24eastern counties will allow temperatures to 13 degrees Celsius and some brighter

01:28skies for Northern Ireland through the latter part of the day. Whereas for much

01:32of Scotland particularly across more eastern and northern areas outbreaks of

01:36rain, rain and drizzle further southwest across Wales as well as the West Country.

01:40Now through Thursday evening that rain continues to push eastwards and this is

01:46an active cold front with some heavy pulses of squally rain and we could see

01:50some damaging winds just for a time as it tracks from Scotland and Northern

01:55Ireland quite quickly towards eastern counties of England through the early

01:59hours of Friday morning and then we see showers follow and some lower

02:03temperatures. A chillier day all round on Friday, at least though there will be

02:08some brighter weather, even some sunshine. So first thing on Friday that

02:12rain clears off the scene you can see that cold front moves towards the low

02:15countries. A lighter breeze towards the south but still windy across the north

02:20as well as the west and these showers will become frequent through the day as

02:24well as heavy with the risk of thunder. Brighter skies across England and Wales

02:27we hang on to some higher temperatures across eastern counties chilly though in

02:31the wind further north and west.