Met Office Thursday Evening Weather Forecast 12/09/2024

12 September - National weather forecast presented by Annie Shuttleworth.

Transcript

00:00Good evening. There's a good chance of spotting the northern lights as far south as northern

00:04England overnight tonight, with clear skies developing quite widely across the UK. It

00:09will be a cold night, but this cold air is going to be replaced by Atlantic air as we

00:14head into Friday and into the weekend. High pressure set to dominate across the south

00:18for the foreseeable with further wet and windy weather across more north-western areas. But

00:24for the time being, we've still got this Arctic air across the UK, so that's brought that

00:29chilly feel recently. So it will be another very cold night, probably the coldest night

00:33of the week so far to come tonight. But for many of us, it will be a dry and clear night.

00:39Still a few showers, though, across eastern areas of England in particular, as well as

00:42parts of north Wales overnight. But for many of us, clear skies will allow those temperatures

00:47to fall away quite quickly this evening. We could be down as low as around minus three

00:52or four in parts of rural Scotland, especially where we've seen any snow over the past few

00:57days. Further south, rurally around minus one or two, but many towns and cities well

01:01above zero. So it's just rurally where we've got the risk of a potential frost first thing.

01:06There will be quite a lot of sunshine around through Friday morning. The sunshine is definitely

01:10going to be longer lived and it will feel warmer as well through Friday. We've got lighter

01:15winds as well as longer lived sunshine through Friday. But notice across parts of Northern

01:20Ireland, Western Scotland, the sunshine is turning a little hazier as we head into the

01:23afternoon. That's ahead of this spell of wet weather that will move in through Saturday.

01:30But with westerly winds and more in the way of sunshine, temperatures will climb a little

01:34bit higher than they have done lately. 15 or 14 degrees quite widely. Highs of 17 degrees

01:39in the south and east is still below average, but it's definitely warmer than it has been

01:43for the past few days. As I said, this wet weather will become more dominant across north

01:48western areas, particularly across western Scotland. And that's set to sink southwards

01:52into some northern areas of England as we head into Saturday evening as well. But a

01:57spell of wet and quite windy weather will develop, particularly across north western

02:01Scotland through Friday night. Further south, though, another clear and fairly cold night.

02:06Not quite as cold as tonight, but still a fairly chilly one with a chance of a rural

02:11frost quite locally, but much milder where we see the winds pick up and that cloud push

02:16in across parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland. And that wet weather is set to persist through

02:21a lot of Saturday across Northern Ireland and Scotland. The heaviest rain will be restricted

02:25to far north western areas and it will stay dry with high pressure holding on across more

02:30southern areas. So much of England and Wales will see a fairly fine day and it will be

02:34another even warmer day, quite widely 17 or 18 degrees. Temperatures coming quite close

02:40to the high teens, if not low 20s, so much closer to where they should be for the time

02:44of year. As I said, that wet weather will sink further south into parts of northern

02:49England as we head into Sunday, but it is set to stay dry across the south for the foreseeable.

02:54But you can find out more details on that on your full weekend forecast with Alex Deakin

02:58on YouTube. Bye bye.