Met Office Thursday Afternoon Weather Forecast 12/09/2024

12 September - National weather forecast presented by Annie Shuttleworth.

Transcript

00:00Good afternoon. Another cold night to come tonight but then it will turn much warmer

00:04through Friday and into the weekend. It's also going to turn considerably drier in the

00:09south through the weekend and then more widely through the start of next week. That's because

00:13high pressure is on its way and you can see that area of high pressure on the satellite

00:18picture quite clearly out in the Atlantic at the moment. Now ahead of this area of high

00:22pressure we've still got low pressure in charge and a cold arctic northerly wind. That's bringing

00:28that chilly feel through the rest of the day and overnight tonight. It's also bringing

00:33in quite a few showers particularly across north-western areas of England through the

00:38Cheshire Gap similar to where we saw some very heavy showers yesterday. But as the winds

00:42shift to more of a north-easterly through this afternoon the showers will become more

00:46focused across eastern coasts of the UK and it will turn that much drier across more western

00:52areas. And where we do have a bit more shelter from that north-easterly wind it will be a

00:56slightly warmer feeling day across more south and western areas but exposed to that breeze

01:01across the north and east it will feel fairly chilly. So as the winds are a little bit lighter

01:06today it will be a slightly warmer day but temperatures are still widely well below average

01:11for this point in September. You can see that by the blues on this map showing temperatures

01:16are between three and six degrees below the September average and we're still at a fairly

01:21early point in the month. And that cold feel will continue into this evening. It's probably

01:26going to be a colder night tonight compared to last night as clear skies develop quite

01:30widely. There'll still be a few showers clipping the coasts of parts of Scotland and in particular

01:35the coasts of Norfolk too but elsewhere it will be a clear and dry night and as the winds

01:40turn much lighter we could see a bit more of a widespread rural frost. Towns and cities

01:46will stay above zero but in the south we could be down as low as minus one or two, minus

01:50three or four across some northern areas and there is some lying snow over the very tops

01:54of the mountains in parts of Scotland. So a bit of a wintry scene for some of us to

01:59start the day tomorrow morning but as I said it is turning much warmer through Friday and

02:04into the weekend and there will be more in the way of sunshine on Friday lasting into

02:08the afternoon. So that does mean that it will feel that much warmer. The winds will be lighter

02:13too, starting to develop more of a southwesterly wind through Friday. That will drag in some

02:18cloud on the next band of rain for north-western areas so some hazier sunshine to come for

02:23northern Ireland and western areas of Scotland but elsewhere a dry and bright day and as

02:28I said it will be a warmer day tomorrow compared to today. Temperatures still a little below

02:32average but highs of around 16 or 17 degrees in the south, 14 or 15 further north and west

02:40and I think with those lighter winds and more in the way of sunshine it will feel that much

02:43warmer than the past couple of days. Now this wet weather across the north-west will

02:48continue its journey into parts of Scotland throughout Friday evening where it will bring

02:54wet weather through the start of the weekend. That weather front will push into parts of

02:59Scotland, northern areas of England before it sinks southwards into some areas of northern

03:04England and parts of Wales but high pressure is set to dominate across the south through

03:08this weekend and as I said that high pressure will become more widespread into the start

03:13of next week but you can find more details on next week on our latest 10 day trend on

03:17YouTube. See you again soon, bye bye.