Friday morning forecast 26/01/24

26 January - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

Transcript

00:00Hello. A couple of weather fronts have passed overhead through the night, meaning a fresher

00:05feel to today, but also many of us will see a bit more in the way of sunshine. There are

00:09those weather fronts zipping through, may have woken you up through the night as the

00:12wind suddenly picked up and they brought a short spell of heavy rain. But a couple of

00:17cold fronts introducing cooler air in from the northwest. High pressure, though, is building

00:23in behind and that high will bring most of us a fine day today. Those weather fronts

00:27quickly clearing away from the southeast. Won't be completely dry. We are going to continue

00:31to feed showers in this morning over parts of southern Scotland and Northern Ireland.

00:36The showers here should fade. I think we'll keep them going through the day over the Highlands,

00:40the Western Isles and the Northern Isles. Still pretty windy here also. Elsewhere, the

00:44winds certainly lighter than they have been for most of this week. A bit of a breeze blowing

00:48on some western coasts, but quite a bit of winter sunshine around. Temperatures, though,

00:52will be lower than yesterday, a fresher feel. These numbers fairly close to average for

00:57the time of year, but it was very mild yesterday. So you will probably notice that drop and

01:01you'll certainly notice a drop in temperatures through this evening. If you're heading out,

01:05it's getting quite cold quite quickly across the south. Further north, there'll be enough

01:09of a wind and there'll be more cloud filling in. Also bringing in more cloud and showers

01:14to parts of Scotland and particularly northern Scotland. Another approaching weather fronts

01:19and getting quite windy here once more through the night. So by morning time, the coldest

01:23conditions certainly across the south. There'll be some pockets of frost in rural spots,

01:28whereas further north, it will stay reasonably mild again, thanks to that cloud, wind and

01:32some outbreaks of rain, which will continue into Saturday. Rain at times over the northern

01:38half of Scotland, east coast, central belt and southern Scotland generally staying dry

01:43and elsewhere across the UK. It'll be a dry day on Saturday, more cloud perhaps than today,

01:48but still dry and bright. The wind will start to pick up once more, particularly in the

01:52west and especially in the northwest. So quite a breezy day for many, but the wind's

01:57coming up from the south. So bringing reasonably mild air will be up into double digits in

02:01one or two places. And so for many of us, it'll be milder still on Sunday and again

02:06for most a dry day. For more details on that, you can check out our weekend's weather forecast

02:12on YouTube.