Met Office Tuesday afternoon weather forecast 17/09/2024

17 September - National weather forecast presented by Aiden McGiven

Transcript

00:00Hi there. High pressure and widespread blue skies up and down the country through the

00:05rest of Tuesday. One or two exceptions, as is always the case with the UK's weather.

00:11Northern Scotland where we've had some low cloud to begin things and some patchy rain

00:15and drizzle. Any rain mostly confined to Shetland for the rest of the day. Otherwise, it's brightening

00:21up, it's drying up across much of northern Scotland and warming up as well with temperatures

00:26reaching the low to mid-20s for parts of, say, Moray and Aberdeenshire. It's also going

00:32to be relatively warm towards the south and south-east, but here again we've got some

00:38cloud coming in on a brisk easterly breeze, particularly for Kent. We saw one or two showers

00:43earlier on. The showers will fade away into the afternoon, but still some patchy cloud

00:47around and we'll see increasing amounts of cloud begin to arrive on that east to north-easterly

00:53wind through the evening and overnight. After the sun goes down, that cloud will creep into

00:58parts of the Midlands, East Anglia, as well as maybe East Wales. The cloud will be patchy.

01:04It will be quite low in places, one or two fog patches, and there will be one or two

01:08fog patches forming under the clear skies elsewhere across Scotland, northern England,

01:14northern Ireland, as well as parts of Wales. But with clear skies for much of northern

01:19and western UK, temperatures will again fall away, three to six Celsius in sheltered spots.

01:26Conversely, over higher parts of northern UK, temperatures could remain in the mid-teens

01:32because of something called a temperature inversion, and it will be a milder night where

01:37we've got the cloud cover across the Midlands and eastern parts of England. Nevertheless,

01:42higher pressure remains in charge of our weather through the next few days, so it's staying

01:45settled, but that higher pressure is migrating a bit further north and north-east, and that's

01:50allowing this easterly airflow, which is responsible for bringing the areas of low cloud in as

01:56we begin Wednesday. Now, as the sun gets to work, that low cloud will tend to lift and

02:00break up, and Irebarren lunchtime for many places it is brightening again with widely

02:06blue skies, but some cloud will persist along the North Sea coast. Meanwhile, northern Scotland,

02:12cloud-free with just some patchy mist around the coasts of some north-eastern parts, otherwise

02:18it's simply sunny skies for the vast majority by mid-afternoon, and it's a warmer day as

02:24a result, 23 to 24 Celsius most likely in the south, perhaps 25 degrees in one or two

02:31spots, and northern Scotland also seeing similar temperatures with the winds coming in around

02:37the south. So, warm and sunny after a cloudy start for many, and then we see the cloud

02:43in the North Sea once again drift back westwards as the sun goes down, so that cloud reforming

02:51and becoming relatively extensive by the start of Thursday, and quite low, so there could

02:56be some issues with mist and fog first thing. But in the north and the far west, mostly

03:02it's going to be a bright start on Thursday, and Thursday is another largely dry day before

03:06showers return on Friday. Bye-bye.