20 March - National weather forecast presented by Clare Nasir
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00:00Hello there, welcome to your Wednesday evening weather update from the Met Office.
00:06Wind and rain over the next 24 hours across the northern half of the UK, mild for many
00:11before the air turns colder from the northwest.
00:14The wind will be a real feature of the weather through Thursday with gales across the far
00:18north as this rain which will be persistent towards the west fades away as it extends
00:24down towards southern areas through the latter part of Thursday and into Friday.
00:29For the time being, Wednesday evening, watch out for some showery bursts across the Midlands,
00:33East Anglia.
00:34It will tend to clear down towards the southeast but murky conditions overnight even with some
00:39fog patches.
00:40Watch out for an early frost, localised frost at that, across Scotland before the cloud
00:44thickens across western Scotland and Northern Ireland.
00:48Rain after midnight here which will become persistent through the early hours of the
00:51morning as those winds pick up and we could even see gale force winds across the far northwest.
00:56A chilly start to the day across eastern parts of Scotland, even further south.
01:00We could see temperatures a bit lower than what they have been, even so, despite the
01:04murk across more southern areas, the cloud will break allowing for some brighter weather
01:08through the morning into the afternoon.
01:10A wet and windy start across northern and western Scotland, even some rain just extending
01:15towards Aberdeenshire through the morning.
01:18Some heavier pulses of rain for Northern Ireland will extend across the Isle of Man to Cumbria
01:23as we head through Thursday morning and even a little rain further south for the likes
01:27of Lancashire, Liverpool Bay for a time and then Northumberland, Tyne and Wear.
01:32But things will tend to dry up here, certainly some brighter skies further south as that
01:36rain slips down towards southern Scotland as well as Northern Ireland and Northern England
01:41through the afternoon.
01:42This is the cold front and this cold front has with it some strong winds associated with
01:47it, certainly towards the far northwest.
01:49It's a blustery end to the day with some strong gusts in excess of 55mph across the
01:53far north and also those showers.
01:56Through Friday you can see the rain just clearing towards the low countries, strong winds across
02:02the north there, cold air, you'll notice the difference particularly in that strong wind
02:07and frequent showers which will be wintry above around 400m across the north.
02:13This low pressure system then moves down towards the North Sea through Sunday so fewer showers
02:18towards the west to end the weekend but still some showery bursts further east.
02:23So let's take a look at the detail on Thursday evening.
02:26Here's that cold front, as you can see it clears Northern Ireland through the latter
02:30part of the evening as well as southern Scotland but a wet evening to come across Northern
02:35England as well as Wales.
02:37The rain comes and goes as the cloud thickens ahead of it.
02:40These showers will be frequent across Scotland as well as Northern Ireland, particularly
02:44towards the west and again strong and blustery winds here, gusty over the highlands with
02:51some clearer skies and temperatures dipping down to around 2-5 degrees Celsius across
02:55Scotland and Northern Ireland.
02:57We hang on to around 8, 9, 10 across much of England and Wales but a bit of a chilly
03:02start to the day with some clear skies across Northumberland, Cumbria, Lancashire, North
03:06Yorkshire.
03:07Through the morning some brighter weather emerges across Wales as well as Northern England.
03:11We hang on to that cloud and some rain across southern counties and those showers will
03:16be relentless across the north with the risk of thunder as well as hail, snow as I said
03:20above around 400 metres.
03:22A few showers extend down towards Northern England as we head through the afternoon.
03:26Some brighter skies still coming through but the winds will be very strong across the far
03:30north of Scotland and temperatures struggling, only 6, 7, 8 degrees Celsius for Scotland
03:35through the afternoon on Friday, 8 or 9 for Northern Ireland at double digits across England
03:40and Wales with some sunshine to end the day.
03:43And then it's sunshine and showers through the weekend and some of these will be blustery
03:46and heavy and it will be rather chilly.
03:48I'll see you later.