Low pressure will bring strong winds and wet weather to much of Scotland and Northern Ireland this afternoon. Remaining drier elsewhere with sunny spells, especially in the east. Showery rain affecting Wales and Southwest England. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 18/10/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.
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00:00Hi there, the Met Office have issued an amber wind warning for western Scotland on Sunday
00:07as Storm Ashley brings widespread disruption and some serious impacts in places.
00:13Now, at the time of recording, Storm Ashley is just a shallow area of low pressure on
00:17the other side of the Atlantic, but during Saturday it gets picked up by the jet stream
00:21and then as Ashley moves on to the cold side of the jet stream, it spins up very quickly
00:26into a deep and significant area of low pressure arriving in the UK on Sunday.
00:32But on Friday there's a different area of low pressure bringing some disruption to the
00:36far north-west of the UK, a yellow warning in force for north-west Scotland because as
00:42wet and windy weather arrives and wind gusts peak at 50-60 mph for the Outer Hebrides,
00:48well that coincides with high tides so there could be some coastal impacts as well as impacts
00:53from the strong winds and heavy rain across western Scotland and Northern Ireland.
00:57Elsewhere, western England and Wales turn increasingly cloudy with some outbreaks of
01:01light rain moving in, the breeze picking up, but for the East Midlands, East Anglia and
01:05the South East, it will be a pleasant afternoon here with sunny spells, lighter winds and
01:09highs of 15-17 C. Not so pleasant towards the west as we end
01:14Friday afternoon, wet and windy weather moves in and that increasingly becomes a feature
01:20of the weather across western England as well as Wales through the evening. Moving
01:24into the Midlands and central southern England by the early hours of Saturday and clearing
01:31skies return to Scotland and Northern Ireland with temperatures as winds drop away dipping
01:36to the low single figures in some sheltered spots, but a milder night to come across central
01:41and southern parts of the UK with the cloud and the rain and the breeze picking up overnight.
01:47Now the rain is slow to clear first thing Saturday across the Midlands and central southern
01:51England and really it takes until the middle of the afternoon to clear parts of East Anglia
01:55and the South East, but elsewhere brighter skies return and actually it's a decent day
02:00for many with sunny spells and just a few showers for western Scotland, western England,
02:04Wales and Northern Ireland. Temperatures reaching 16-17 C although suppressed where we've got
02:10the rain continuing throughout much of the day in the east of England. Saturday evening
02:15the showers largely fade away and then a clear end to the day with light winds, however Storm
02:21Ashley is approaching and the cloud during the evening starts to build in the west and
02:27the winds pick up as well. This shows the wind gusts from Ashley increasing overnight
02:33and by dawn the first swathe of strong winds is pushing into western parts of the UK with
02:38coastal areas seeing 50-60 mph wind gusts, but the second swathe of strong winds is likely
02:43to be even more fierce with the wind gusts peaking around western Scotland and perhaps
02:48exposed parts of Northern Ireland in excess of 70 mph. Now western Scotland later Sunday
02:55could see wind gusts of 70-80 mph and again coinciding with high tides could cause some
03:00serious impacts and that's why there's an amber warning in force. We'll keep you updated
03:05right here at the Met Office on our YouTube channel and you can follow all the updates
03:09on the forecast and the warnings of course through the Met Office website and app. Bye-bye.