Met Office Saturday Evening weather forecast 17/08/2024

17 August - National weather forecast presented by Greg Dewhurst.

Transcript

00:00Hello, there. Welcome to your latest broadcast from the Met Office. Parts of the U.K. have

00:05been quite cloudy through the past 24 hours or so, best of the sunshine towards the southeast.

00:11And what we'll see through the rest of the weekend is the Azores High just extends a

00:14little further north and east across the U.K., allowing to break up that cloud a little more

00:19ahead of then weather systems moving in as we move into the beginning of next week, turning

00:25it wetter and windier, particularly across the northwest.

00:28For this evening time, we still have some showers across southern parts of Scotland,

00:31northern England, perhaps Wales and the West Country into the early hours too. Northwest

00:36Scotland also seeing further blustery showers here through the night. In between, there

00:40will be clear spells, but with enough of a breeze around, we should prevent any mist

00:45and fog patches. Temperatures in towns and cities generally holding up in double figures,

00:4912 to 14 Celsius, a little lower in the countryside, perhaps around 8 or 9 Celsius to start Sunday.

00:56But a bright start for many, plenty of sunny spells, though there could be still a few

00:59showers around western parts of England and Wales, as well as parts of Scotland, heaviest

01:04and most frequent, where the winds are strongest across the highlands. But even here, the showers

01:08will tend to fade away as we move through the afternoon. Many places dry, plenty of

01:12sunny spells through the day, winds generally falling light for many, and it'll just lift

01:18temperatures a little higher where we see the sunshine. High teens to low 20s, temperatures

01:22around 24, 25 degrees Celsius towards the very far southeast. Into the evening time

01:28on Sunday, a dry end to the day, plenty of clear spells, but then the cloud will start

01:33to thicken from the west as we head into the early hours. Parts of Northern Ireland, Northwest

01:37Scotland thick enough for a few spots of rain come the end of the night. Elsewhere, light

01:42winds, clear skies, it'll allow temperatures to dip away, low double digits in the towns

01:47and cities. Again, 6 or 7 Celsius possible in the countryside, a few mist and fog patches

01:52forming across England and Wales. Seas quickly clearing though as the sun gets to work on

01:56Monday morning. However, cloud and outbreaks of rain will quickly push in from the Atlantic.

02:02The rain turning heavy across parts of Northern Ireland, Western Scotland. The winds picking

02:06up through the Irish Sea as well. We'll see gales developing by the afternoon. Sunshine

02:11turning hazy ahead of this, best of the blue skies holding on across parts of East Anglia,

02:15southeast England. The winds coming in from the south, so drawing in some quite warm air.

02:19Temperatures 24, 25, locally 26 Celsius here. But under the cloud and outbreaks of rain

02:25further north and west, struggling around 16 to 18 Celsius. The humidity also rising

02:31as the rain moves in. So the rest of the weekend, it's largely settled, plenty of sunny spells

02:37through Sunday, but then turning wetter and windier into the beginning of next week. More

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