Friday morning forecast 19/01/24

19 January - National weather forecast presented by Annie Shuttleworth.

Transcript

00:00Good morning. It's going to be another sunny and dry day for many of us, but it

00:04is still a chilly start out there. We do have a snow and ice warning in force for

00:09northern areas of Scotland. That's where we'll continue to see some snow fall

00:12through the rest of the day. It will turn a little bit sleetier to lower levels by

00:16the end of the day, but still some heavy snow to the high ground. Elsewhere though

00:19it'll be a dry day. Any mist and fog you may have woken up to should clear

00:23fairly quickly. We've got a westerly wind which is a warmer direction, so it will

00:27feel a little bit warmer than it has done recently out there through the

00:31afternoon. However in the east, notice there's still a frost lingering through

00:35much of the day, so still a chilly feel for eastern areas. By the afternoon the

00:40sunshine will turn a little bit hazier across parts of Northern Ireland and

00:44Wales into the southwest too. That's ahead of this weather front that will

00:48push in overnight tonight. Many areas through the evening though should stay

00:52fairly dry away from the far north, but it will turn cloudier across the west.

00:56Still plenty of clear skies to come though across the east and as a result

01:00it will be a chilly evening here. And then overnight heavy rain pushes in to

01:04Northern Ireland, but in particular western areas of Scotland. It's still

01:08falling as snow over the high ground as well, but temperatures are starting to

01:12climb with milder air moving in and that southwesterly wind

01:16direction. So it will be a much milder night tonight than last night. However in

01:20the south and east where the cloud cover is a little bit thinner, there's still a

01:24risk of a frost, but generally it's going to be the mildest night we've seen

01:27for quite a while. That band of rain will continue to push into

01:32similar areas into northern and western areas through much of Saturday. It's

01:35going to be a much wetter and windier day, a cloudier day too. In the south and

01:40east though you should stay dry. Still some sunshine now and again through the

01:43morning in particular, but it is going to be a breezy day. In the west though

01:48notice we've got some really heavy patches of rain pushing in and that rain

01:52is only going to turn heavier through Sunday. You can see the temperatures

01:56climbing up to 9 or 10 degrees by Saturday, so that's going to start to

02:00melt any of that snowfall we've seen across Scotland. So we're starting to

02:04consider flooding issues through Sunday as further heavy rain is expected. That's

02:09as low pressures in charge. It's going to be sweeping a number of fronts across

02:13the UK throughout the course of Sunday, particularly pushing into northern and

02:17western areas. We've also got really tightly packed isobars, so some very

02:20strong gusty winds are expected through Sunday. As a result of all that we've got

02:25weather warnings in force for both wind and rain for many areas of the UK, but

02:30before then there's plenty of sunshine to come through the rest of today, so

02:34make sure you get outside and enjoy it. Have a great day.