A cold front will clear the southeast of the UK this evening, leaving behind it some clear conditions across England and Wales overnight. Late into this evening, a frontal system will arrive from the northwest into Scotland and Northern Ireland, bringing some heavy rain and strong gusty winds. The winds will be especially strong in the north of Scotland tomorrow. These conditions will push into Wales and northern England by Saturday morning. Mild temperatures overnight and into tomorrow, although chillier in the clear areas of the south and southeast. - This is the Met Office Weather forecast for the evening of 20/12/2024. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Amy Bokota.
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00:00Good evening and welcome to your latest weather update from the Met Office. Some clear spells
00:05coming through during this evening, but further wet and windy weather is on its way into the
00:09start of Saturday. So cold front clearing through, giving some clear spells through
00:12Friday evening, but we do have this low pressure arriving, bringing some very wet and windy
00:16weather, particularly across the northern half of the UK, and that's going to last right
00:20the way through until Sunday. So back to this evening. So this is the remnants of that cold
00:25front clearing away to the southeast, giving some clear spells across much of England and
00:29Wales through Friday night. But we do have this frontal system arriving from the north
00:33west, slowly spreading southeastwards, giving a fairly damp start to the day for Northern
00:38Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the north of England. Temperatures, though, a bit milder
00:42to start the day on Saturday, around seven to nine degrees in certainly underneath the
00:46cloud in the west and no frost expected. So certainly a milder feel to the day on Saturday.
00:52But it will be a fairly damp start to the day. That rain steadily sinking southeastwards,
00:56giving fairly difficult driving conditions on this busy travelling Saturday. Winds strengthening
01:01in the cool air as well. And we do have a yellow warning in force for much of the northern
01:05half of the UK. And that's for winds widely expected to be around 50 to 60 miles per hour,
01:10a touch stronger on the coast. And the strongest winds are expected across the northern half
01:15of Scotland. Here we could see winds into 80 miles per hour at times, and there could
01:20be some travel disruption associated with these. Elsewhere in this cool air, we do have
01:24some wintry and blustery showers moving through. Could tend to snow for a time over parts of
01:29Scotland as well. Temperatures generally a touch milder across the south, 11 to 13 degrees
01:36and some places lingering with some rain through Saturday afternoon. But cooler across the
01:40far north, seven to six degrees in that cooler air. Then heading through the rest of Saturday.
01:46So we're going to see further blustery showers moving through that rain finally clearing
01:50across the far southeast. There might be a few clearer spells across the very far southeast
01:54of England, but there will be frequent blustery showers moving through and particularly into
01:58Sunday morning. Hill snow likely to be falling over parts of Northern Ireland, northern Wales,
02:04northern England and Scotland. So particularly cool with perhaps some cooler and wintry showers
02:09through Sunday morning. Wet yellow wind warning still in force for that northern half of the
02:13UK starting on Sunday as well. Temperatures are going to be much cooler than the previous
02:19day, two or three degrees across the north and a touch milder across the south as well.
02:24Heading through the rest of Sunday, so it's going to be another blustery and windy day
02:28for much of the UK. Still holding onto a yellow wind warning and that will be continuing right
02:32the way through until the evening. Those hill, snow and showers do start to move away. So
02:36by the time we head into the afternoon, any hill snow will be restricted to Scotland and
02:40over the high ground there. Elsewhere, those showers becoming a little less frequent by
02:44Sunday afternoon. Certainly eastern parts of England will be seeing some clearer and
02:48brighter spells. Temperatures around six to nine degrees. But with that wind, it is
02:54certainly going to be feeling much cooler. So this is the feels like temperature in some
02:57places down to zero degrees. So with that wind, it's going to certainly be feeling quite
03:02cool on Sunday. Heading through Sunday evening, that wind warning does expire through the
03:07evening time and we start to see things turn a little bit calmer before we start to see
03:11some milder weather approaching towards Christmas. If you want to find out any more on the weather,
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