Saturday morning forecast 06/01/24

06 January - National Weather Forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

Transcript

00:00The weather patterns are shifting. For most of us, it's going to be a dry weekend.

00:05Now, it's not completely dry this morning. There's some outbreaks of rain here and there,

00:09northeast England, down towards the Midlands, but it's fairly light and patchy,

00:12nothing like the heavy extensive rain we had earlier in the week.

00:15Some lively showers over Shetland. They should be easing away.

00:19And a few showers just drifting down across the north and the east of Northern Ireland,

00:23clipping West Wales and into Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

00:26But for many, it's dry, particularly in the west, quite a lot of sunshine around.

00:31Some fog patches around this morning, and that fog could be slow to clear.

00:35And if the fog does struggle to clear, temperatures will struggle to get much above 2 or 3 degrees.

00:40But where it brightens up, 5, 6, maybe 7, 8, 9 in the far southwest.

00:44Feeling colder than recent days, particularly in the east if you're stuck under that zone of cloud.

00:50As we go through this evening, where we've got the clear skies, we'll see the frost returning pretty sharply.

00:55We'll also see some fog thickening up once more through the evening and overnight,

00:59becoming a bit more extensive perhaps than last night.

01:02Still the odd shower here and there.

01:04Wherever we've got some potential for showers with those temperatures dropping,

01:07it may just turn a little bit icy.

01:09But temperatures mostly getting down to freezing, certainly in rural spots.

01:14Towns and cities in the south may just hover a little bit above.

01:17But generally a cold frosty start to Sunday.

01:20There will be a few fog patches around, which will again be stubborn and slow to clear.

01:25Still quite cloudy at times over central and eastern England.

01:28But I'm hopeful that cloud will break up a little bit more to reveal a bit more in the way of sunshine.

01:33Notice this wind picking up coming in from the North Sea.

01:36That will bring a real chill, I fancy, across parts of East Anglia and along the southernmost counties of England.

01:43Elsewhere, the winds will be fairly light, so if you get in the sunshine, it shouldn't feel too bad.

01:47The numbers will be down on where they have been recently,

01:50peaking at, what, 3, 2, maybe 5, 6 degrees in the south.

01:53So below average, as I said, lower than recently.

01:56And when you add on this wind, well, that will feel pretty wicked on these eastern coasts.

02:01Feels like temperatures much closer to freezing here.

02:05So yes, you'll notice the plummeting temperatures this weekend.

02:08It is going to be a bit colder, but thankfully it's also going to be a lot drier.

02:12The cold and dry weather may well last for most of next week.

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