Met Office Wednesday Evening Weather Forecast 21/08/2024

21 August -  National weather forecast presented by Clare Nasir.

Transcript

00:00Hello there, welcome to your Wednesday evening weather update from the Met Office.

00:04Wind and rain warnings through Wednesday night and into Thursday, all courtesy of an area of

00:09low pressure sitting across Iceland. You can see this weather front here, slow moving,

00:14moving across more northern and western areas. Now this rain warning for western Scotland,

00:18we could see up to around 100 millimetres, particularly over the higher ground into

00:22Thursday. And it's gusty central belt southwards, a wind warning here as well as the northwest

00:26of Wales. Gusts along the coastline could reach 50 miles an hour, so expect some high waves.

00:31This cold front will be slow moving down towards the southeast, so through Thursday,

00:35a legacy of clouds and some patchy rain here. Elsewhere, a mix of cloud and sun and a few

00:39showers as the brunt of the strongest winds clear towards the far north of Scotland.

00:45Now let's backtrack to Wednesday evening and look at the detail. So bright echoes representing some

00:51intense bursts of rain across western Scotland. Northern Ireland seeing perhaps a little bit of

00:56a clearance for a time through evening before this rain returns to the province through into

01:02night time. The rain pushes ever northwards across Shetland, Orkney, eastern Scotland.

01:07And then this is the cold front here you saw on the synoptic chart. It's pushing ever southwards.

01:13Winds will pick up through the early hours of the morning across the Irish sea coast,

01:16and it's still blustery into tomorrow morning across western Scotland.

01:20Now for the midlands, east Wales southwards, you'll see a breezy night and also a mostly

01:26dry one with more in the way of cloud here. Temperatures holding around 16 Celsius,

01:29but a wet start to the day for northern England, west Wales, much of Scotland. Northern Ireland

01:34seeing that rain clear first thing and then the sun will come out. Sunshine also for western

01:39Scotland. As you see that rain sliding down towards the midlands, east Wales,

01:43Lincolnshire through around mid morning into the afternoon. So through the afternoon,

01:49brightening skies on the back edge of this rain band, and it's going to be mostly patchy through

01:54the latter part of the day. Still windy across the far north of Scotland. We lose the winds

01:59elsewhere, it's a bit breezy even, so that bright weather ends the day, a lovely end for many areas.

02:05And even down towards the southeast, you should see some fine weather before the sun sets.

02:10Here are your temperatures then. Up to possibly 18 for the central belt, 17 for Belfast.

02:15Now for Cardiff, 19, 20, down towards the southeast with a bit of a breeze to end the day,

02:2121 degrees Celsius. So that's the picture on Thursday. Here's that next system coming in,

02:27into Friday. Again it's going to be windy with some wet weather and then it clears.

02:32We could see a trailing front towards the southeast on Saturday again with some outbreaks of rain

02:37and then showers never too far away into the weekend. But notice a ridge trying to push in

02:42from the south and what that means. There will be some fine weather around. More details about that

02:48on our 10-day trend issued on Wednesday today. So let's take a look at the detail through Thursday

02:54evening. Here's that band of cloud and rain moving in. Again we'll like to see some heavy pulses.

03:00The distribution of the rain is further south this time and there was strong wind particularly

03:04for the West Country, Irish Sea Coast, Wales and that rain could be heavy at times. But we hang on

03:08to some drier brighter weather towards the far northwest of Scotland. Through the afternoon the

03:13rain clears to allow some sunshine to come through and also a scattering of showers. Now

03:18come Saturday watch out for some stronger winds towards the northwest of Scotland.

03:22Again we could see a bit more cloud towards eastern counties with the odd spot or two of rain.

03:26Elsewhere never too far away from a few showers. I'll see you later.