Met Office Wednesday morning weather forecast 22/05/2024

22 May - National weather forecast presented by Clare Nasir.

Transcript

00:00Hello there welcome to your Wednesday morning weather update from the Met

00:03Office. For many you'll see some outbreaks of rain today with the risk of

00:07showers which could turn thundery towards the south. Now through this

00:11morning fairly quiet across central parts of Scotland, low cloud towards the

00:14east, showers across the north as well as the west extending towards Northern

00:18Ireland. Then we run into this persistent and at times heavy rain across northern

00:22central parts of England, East Anglia as well as much of Wales. To the south we'll

00:26see one or two showery bursts, in fact showers will develop through the day

00:29here they could turn heavy with the risk of thunder. So let's pick up on the

00:34detail through the first part of this morning. There are rain warnings across

00:37much of England and Wales as this rain pushes ever northwards and notice these

00:42bright echoes representing some heavy downpours. With that the winds will pick

00:47up particularly on this east coast as the rain extends towards southern

00:51Scotland by around lunchtime and it's at lunchtime we see that other rain warning

00:56across central southern and eastern parts of Scotland kick in. Now the rain

00:59will be persistent across Wales as well as the Midlands Northern England and in

01:03fact we'll see the highest rainfalls across Northern England and the higher

01:06ground of North Wales could see up to 100 millimetres or so. Elsewhere yes it

01:11turns showery towards the south as I said as rain pivots and moves towards

01:15eastern Scotland through the latter part of the day nudging into the eastern side

01:18of Northern Ireland. Again quite a strong wind coming down this western side of

01:24Scotland towards Northern Ireland. So it's a wet evening to come again there

01:28could be problems on the roads through rush hour, high rainfall total leading to

01:32surface water issues, rivers will be swollen as well the risk of some

01:36localised flooding because this rain will continue to be fairly persistent

01:39particularly across Wales and it will turn wet across Northern Ireland the far

01:43north and west of Scotland. Showery elsewhere and towards the south will see

01:47those showers ease through Wednesday evening into Thursday morning. So through

01:52Thursday most of Scotland seeing rain or showers a similar situation for Northern

01:57Ireland and that rain continues across Wales as well as the North Midlands.

02:01Showery elsewhere towards the south as well as the east you'll see a better day

02:05you'll see some brighter skies coming through as the cloud breaks but these

02:09rain warnings extend through until evening time across Scotland. Temperatures

02:13up a notch in fact that's the theme of the weather through the next few days as

02:17the showers fade away on Friday we'll see some fine weather on Saturday higher

02:21temperatures as well feeling warmer but then a return to showers on Sunday. Stay

02:25tuned to the forecast because the warnings will be updated. I'll see you

02:29later.