This evening, wet and windy conditions continue over Scotland and Northern Ireland, with rain moving into parts of western England and Wales. Into the early hours of the morning this band of rain will continue to move slowly eastwards across the UK. Overnight, cooler conditions are expected in Scotland and Northern Ireland - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening 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 warning for Storm Ashley which arrives on
00:06Sunday.
00:07That amber warning is for western Scotland with wind gusts of 80mph in places.
00:12But at the time of recording, Storm Ashley is on the other side of the Atlantic and a
00:16relatively shallow area of low pressure.
00:19It deepens rapidly as it gets picked up by the jet stream during Saturday and ends up
00:24as a particularly deep area of low pressure with a widespread swathe of gales and wind
00:30gusts in excess of 60mph for many western and northern parts of the country.
00:35Ahead of Storm Ashley, there's another low that has been bringing wet and windy weather
00:39to the UK on Friday and that wind and rain will move through Scotland and Northern Ireland
00:45during the evening, heading into western England and Wales by late evening and the early hours
00:51of Saturday.
00:52Now, it's been a fine day on Friday in the east of England but the wind and rain does
00:57turn up here later although the wind is easing all the while and that rain becomes slow moving.
01:03But with the cloud and the rain, it's going to be a mild night for England and Wales.
01:06Scotland and Northern Ireland are cooler night with temperatures dipping into the single
01:10figures or even low single figures in some sheltered spots but that's where the brightest
01:15weather will be first thing, albeit with a few showers for western Scotland and parts
01:19of Northern Ireland.
01:20We'll also see some bright skies for the north-west of England, Wales and the south-west.
01:24But for the midlands, central southern England, a slow start before the sunshine pushes in
01:28here by the afternoon and for the east of England, especially towards the south-east,
01:33it may take until the end of the afternoon for that rain to finally clear.
01:37As a result, 12-14C in the east of England but 16-17C where we get the sunshine elsewhere
01:43and with winds turning lighter through the day, it's going to be a lot more pleasant
01:47I think in the west compared with Friday.
01:51Any showers do fade away on Saturday evening and it's a relatively calm spell at least
01:56for the first half of the night.
01:58But as you can see, by midnight the cloud is thickening, the wind is strengthening and
02:02outbreaks of rain are moving into Northern Ireland and western fringes of Britain.
02:06That rain heavy at times and accompanied by gales by the end of the night as the first
02:11swathe of two swathes of strong winds move in and western parts of the UK start Sunday
02:17with wind gusts of 50 or 60 miles an hour, particularly for exposed coasts and hills
02:21accompanied by heavy rain.
02:23But the strongest winds are to the south of Ashley as it moves to the north-west of Scotland
02:30and it's across exposed parts of Northern Ireland and western Scotland where we like
02:33to see wind gusts of 70 miles an hour and for parts of western Scotland, wind gusts
02:38of 80 miles an hour or perhaps a fraction more are possible.
02:43Those kinds of wind gusts could cause considerable disruption, damage to buildings, transport
02:48disruption, so for the ferry crossings for example, and also the risk to coastal communities
02:55of flooding because these strong winds coincide with a period of high tides.
03:01So that risk is especially great for this particular area of low pressure.
03:06And of course those strong winds are going to continue through Sunday but peak during
03:11the evening.
03:12Elsewhere across the UK there's a yellow warning for many northern and western parts of the
03:16country but it's going to be a windy day everywhere and on Sunday morning the wettest weather
03:20will be across western and northern parts of the country before swiftly moving east
03:25during the morning.
03:26Brighter skies do follow with the rain ending up across central and southeastern parts and
03:33there'll be some sunny spells in the northwest with some heavy showers but that's when the
03:39strongest winds will arrive late Sunday so watch out for that.
03:43We'll keep you updated right here on YouTube through the weekend and we'll also keep you
03:47updated on the Met Office social media channels as well as the website and app.
03:51Stay across all the latest updates to forecasts and warnings and stay safe.
03:56Bye bye.