Met Office Sunday afternoon weather forecast 03/03/2024

03 March - National weather forecast presented by Greg Dewhurst.

Transcript

00:00Hello there. Saturday was quite a cold, cloudy day with outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow

00:05in places. Sunday, much drier and brighter, plenty of sunny spells. Though the next day

00:11with low pressure will start to move in for Monday. But later on in the week, high pressure

00:16starts to build over Scandinavia and this will help keep weather fronts away, though

00:19we could see a little rain at times, the winds may pick up. But overall, a drier outlook

00:24is forecast. For Sunday afternoon, plenty of sunny spells

00:28across the country, much drier, brighter weather. We could see some showers affecting

00:33western areas, something a little bit more organised, perhaps towards the southwest.

00:37This weather front overall looks like it should stay away from most areas. We may just see

00:42some thicker cloud and patchy light rain across some eastern coasts at times. But for many

00:47light winds, it will feel a little warmer compared to Saturday. With a bit more brightness

00:52around temperatures overall, we're looking at highs of 8 to 11 Celsius.

00:58As we go through the evening time, we'll slowly start to see the cloud fade away. We'll see

01:02skies becoming clear. This will allow temperatures to fall away quite quickly, a chilly evening

01:07and then overnight, temperatures dropping close to if not below freezing. And this again

01:12with light winds will allow some mist and fog patches to form and some freezing fog

01:17patches in the countryside as temperatures fall down to minus 2 to minus 4 once more.

01:21However, a different story across the far southwest, cloud and rain starts to move in

01:26here. The winds pick up. So across the tip of Cornwall, we'll see some cloud and rain

01:30first thing. This band slowly pushes its way north and eastwards through the morning, moving

01:35into parts of the southwest, Wales and eventually Northern Ireland. The rest of the UK after

01:40that cold frosty foggy start should largely stay dry for much of the day. The sunshine

01:45turning hazy across eastern parts of England. Best of the blue skies across parts of Scotland

01:51though. Notice Orkney and Shetland, that weather front still nearby, giving some outbreaks

01:55of rain. The winds coming in from the southwest turning quite blustery around some western

02:00coasts. But that will lift temperatures a little higher on Monday, 11, 12 Celsius, still

02:05a little chilly, but plenty of sunshine in the north, keeping it feeling quite nice.

02:11This band of rain pushes north and eastwards into Monday evening. It does start to fragment

02:17a little as it does so as the area of high pressure over Scandinavia starts to build

02:22and overnight it weakens and stalls across some eastern areas into Tuesday. Thereafter,

02:28it starts to become drier as high pressure keeps those weather fronts at bay. For more

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