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A band of heavy rain will clear eastwards by late evening, followed by a few scattered showers, mainly across northwestern Scotland. Winds stay strong for a time overnight, but will start to ease into the morning. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 05/12/2024. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.

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00:00Hi there, storm Dhara arrives this weekend bringing a spell of very disruptive wind and
00:07rain.
00:08Now, the wind and rain overnight tonight isn't storm Dhara but could also cause disruption
00:12as it sweeps through quickly.
00:14By late evening the heaviest of the rain has moved through.
00:17Winds stay strong for a time overnight, 50-60 mph wind gusts, but by the end of the night
00:24those winds are starting to ease as a ridge of higher pressure builds in and for many
00:28clear skies will lead to a chill in the air first thing Friday, mid-single figures in
00:33many places.
00:34There will also be a few showers, northern and western Scotland for example, one or two
00:38into Northern Ireland and north-west England.
00:40But away from the showers, plenty of sunshine, Friday morning at least is a decent morning
00:46with plenty of sunshine and it stays dry and bright in the east throughout the day.
00:51But further west the rain sets in and this head of storm Dhara is going to turn increasingly
00:58heavy through the afternoon for Northern Ireland, western Scotland, parts of western
01:01England and Wales.
01:03The winds will also be picking up at this stage with those winds developing widely and
01:09gales reaching many parts of the UK overnight.
01:13But as it turns windier it will also turn milder towards the south-west, 12 celcius
01:17whilst we keep the colder air further east.
01:21Now it's on Friday night that the worst of the weather moves in.
01:25Storm Dhara pushing in and moving across central parts of the UK bringing widespread
01:32gales and the risk in places of some very disruptive winds as it continues to deepen
01:38on its passage across the UK.
01:40One of the issues is that pressure will be building to the west as storm Dhara clears
01:45through and that increases the pressure gradient or in other words it increases the number
01:52of isobars on the graphic there leading to strengthening winds as storm Dhara moves through.
01:58Now the rain will fall as snow above 300 metres for Scotland but it will be heavy rain at
02:02lower levels across southern Scotland and Northern Ireland and then further spells of
02:06rain moving through western England and Wales as the night goes on and as Saturday begins.
02:13The winds will be picking up all night as well with those gales developing and so yeah
02:17it's not going to be quite as chilly but it's certainly going to be a noisy night for many
02:21of us with wet and windy weather moving through and affecting all parts by dawn.
02:28Disruptive conditions then on Saturday morning with the risk of increasing winds, widespread
02:34gales and spells of wet weather leading to localised flooding.
02:38The risk of 30mm widely across western parts of the UK especially for Wales and Northern
02:44Ireland where the rain totals could reach 60 or more millimetres so the risk of disruption
02:50from that and as the spells of rain move through the wind continues to strengthen so
02:56it's going to feel unpleasant basically on Saturday afternoon, highs of 8 or 9 Celsius.
03:02Here's the wind gusts in more detail as storm Dhara moves through.
03:06You can see widely gusts of 60mph across Northern Ireland, much of England and Wales, southern
03:12and central as well as western Scotland but it's across parts of Northern Ireland, south
03:16west Scotland, Wales and western England where the wind gusts could reach 70mph inland,
03:22perhaps even 80mph or more around some exposed coasts.
03:26That could cause significant disruption, travel disruption, power cuts as well as damage to
03:31buildings and dangerous conditions around coasts with large waves as well as flying
03:37debris.
03:38That's why there's an amber warning in force for south west Scotland, Northern Ireland,
03:41parts of Wales and western England with a broader yellow warning elsewhere across much
03:46of the UK.
03:47We'll keep you updated on all the latest warnings and forecasts and you can follow those updates
03:51on the Met Office YouTube channel or of course head to the website and the app for all the
03:55latest on the warnings.
03:56Bye bye.

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