Monday afternoon forecast 15/01/24

15 January - National weather forecast presented by Alex Burkill.

Transcript

00:00Hello, very good day to you. It is going to stay cold for the time being and with that

00:04there will be some significant snow and ice with a number of warnings out at the moment.

00:09We do currently have low pressure towards the east of us and high pressure towards the

00:12west and it's because of this that we have a northerly flow across the UK and that northerly

00:17flow is leading to cold arctic air plunging its way across the country. As well as that,

00:23that northerly wind then is bringing some fairly hefty snow showers initially across

00:27parts of Scotland, particularly towards the north, but we're also likely to see snow showers

00:31feeding into Northern Ireland, perhaps East Anglia and some wintry showers may be affecting

00:36parts of Wales. Some of these snow showers could be quite heavy, particularly across

00:39parts of Scotland, we could even see some hail at times. Further inland, for more central

00:44southern parts too, it's actually looking largely dry and plenty of sunshine today,

00:48but feeling quite cold. Most places seeing temperatures only just getting above freezing.

00:53Perhaps a bit milder than this towards the south west, here highs around 4 or 5 Celsius,

00:58but notice towards the north east of the UK, here's some strong winds, so a significant

01:03wind chill making it feel very cold indeed. Through the evening and overnight, continuing

01:07with that northerly wind, and so again we're most likely to see snow showers across areas

01:12exposed to it, Northern Scotland, Northern Ireland into Wales. Central eastern parts

01:17likely to stay mostly dry through the night and largely clear skies as well. As a result

01:21temperatures plummeting, many places falling several degrees below freezing, so a fairly

01:26widespread and for some of us, harsh frost on Tuesday morning. Our attention for Tuesday

01:31is turning to a weather system that is then going to push its way across parts of Northern

01:36Ireland, central southern Scotland and into Northern England and this could bring some

01:39significant snow, several centimetres perhaps, some disruption is quite likely. For more

01:45northern parts of Scotland, more snow showers feeding their way in, meanwhile for the rest

01:49of England and Wales, it's actually looking largely fine. Again, a decent amount of sunshine

01:54and whilst temperatures may be a nudge higher compared to Monday, it is still going to feel

01:59pretty cold for many of us. As we go towards the middle of the week and there is another

02:04weather system that's set to push its way in from the south west, we have been keeping

02:07an eye out for this for quite a while now because as this system pushes northwards and

02:11hits the cold air we have across the UK, it could bring some disruptive snow. Now the

02:16latest Met Office data wants to keep the heaviest rain just to the south of the UK,

02:21more affecting northwestern Europe, but some model runs do show that that rain and therefore

02:27that snow risk could push into more southern counties of the UK. So there is the chance

02:32that we could see some disruptive snow across southern parts as we go through the middle

02:36of the week. Also, some further snow showers across more northern parts, we do already

02:40have warnings to cover for that, but it is worth staying up to date with the warnings

02:45that we have. You can do that on our website and our app. And if you have plans this week,

02:49check out our week ahead forecast available on YouTube this afternoon. Bye bye.