In the evening and overnight rain continues to fall over Scotland but this will ease as the night goes on. Elsewhere it is mainly dry with clear skies for many in the south and east of England while it will be cloudier in the north of England Wales and Northern Ireland. - This is the Met Office Weather forecast for the evening of 16/12/2024. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.
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00:00Hello again. It's been a dry day for many of us away from the far north of Scotland
00:05here. It's been a much wetter story because we've had a front lying here and that's brought
00:10some heavy persistent rain with totals building up. That front's going to continue to sit
00:15over northern Scotland for a little while yet, but that rain will be easing as we go
00:19overnight into Tuesday. Otherwise, across many parts of the country, a dry day and a
00:24largely dry night. A few spots of rain here or there, but also some clear skies across
00:29central and eastern parts in particular, although the cloud is going to be building as we go
00:33through the early hours of Tuesday morning. With the cloud building, there's the risk
00:37of some low cloud developing, particularly across southern parts. This could bring some
00:41murkiness, some hill fog, and there will be a few spots of rain as well, particularly
00:45across western parts of Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland. Here we'll have some wetter
00:49weather starting to push its way in as we head towards dawn. With all the cloud and
00:53some mild air across us at the moment, temperatures not really dropping a huge amount overnight,
00:58a pretty mild start to the day on Tuesday morning for many of us, but with that, a blustery
01:04start and we're actually going to see the wind strengthening through the day. If we
01:07take a closer look at that, and we have a low pressure system coming through, and here
01:11are our gusts. You can see around exposed coastal parts of western UK and later on across
01:16northern parts as we go overnight into Wednesday. There's a risk of gales in those coastal areas
01:21in particular, but even inland it is going to turn quite blustery. By the time we get
01:26to Wednesday itself, the strongest winds will really be for the Northern Isles where
01:29it could be pretty windy indeed. If we look at the details though for Tuesday, and like
01:34I said, a bit of a wet start across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, that rain
01:38becoming more widespread through the morning could be quite heavy at times too, so some
01:42heavy rain to go alongside those blustery winds for some parts. Across the rest of the
01:47country, across central southern parts of England and Wales in particular, and especially
01:51towards the east, actually staying largely dry here and there should be some breaks in
01:55the cloud. Perhaps a bit cloudier than on Monday, but nonetheless some sunshine at
02:00times, and it's a bit further west that we'll start to see some outbreaks of rain pushing
02:04its way in as we go through into the latter stages of the day. The winds will be picking
02:10up and so the winds will make it feel colder than these temperatures suggest, but they
02:14are a little bit above average for the time of year, or a fair bit above average for some
02:19places. So a mild day, albeit a blustery or windy day with some wet weather towards the
02:24north and west in particular. That rain then in the northwest becomes more widespread as
02:29we go through Tuesday evening and overnight, so although it will be a dry day towards the
02:33southeast, it will turn damp or wet at times as we go into Wednesday morning. So a pretty
02:38wet blustery night to come, and with that then temperatures again not dropping a huge
02:43amount at all. In fact, many places are staying in the high single figures or low double digits,
02:49so a very mild start to the day, albeit a rather unsettled one. As we go through Wednesday
02:54itself then, a lot of cloud, a lot of outbreaks of rain, not especially heavy, but some wet
02:59weather to be had, and those blustery winds, like I said, becoming confined largely just
03:04to the far north. A lot of that clears away for a time, but then we have another system
03:07coming in later on Wednesday, and that's going to bring some heavier, more persistent rain
03:11from the southwest as we go through later Wednesday into Thursday. But temperatures
03:17on Wednesday are actually going to be even higher than through the start of this week,
03:21rising as some even milder air gets dragged in, so mid-teens for quite a few places, albeit
03:27towards the north, will start to see our temperatures dropping as we go through the day as some
03:30cold air starts to make its way in. As we look further ahead through the rest of the
03:35week, and yes, we have this wet weather that's going to push its way across central southern
03:39parts, could see some high totals, could see some issues as we go through Thursday, but
03:43that then clears away. A ridge of high pressure quietens things down for a short period of
03:47time before another front pushes its way through as we go through Friday. With that,
03:51we are going to see our temperatures dropping quite markedly as we go towards the end of
03:56the week, and so it is going to be much colder by Thursday or Friday than it is at the moment.
04:01For more information about that, check out our week ahead video. Otherwise, I'll see
04:04you again soon. Bye bye.