A chilly but bright start, particularly in the south and east. Cloud increasing from the west, bringing outbreaks of rain later. - This is the Met Office Weather forecast for the morning 23/12/2024. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Marco Petagna.
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00:00Hello, here's your latest weather update from the Met Office. I'm Marco Pitania. We've seen
00:04a cold and chilly north-westerly airstream across the UK over the course of the weekend.
00:08But things are starting to turn milder from the west now. Notice the yellows and orange
00:12temperature contours moving in from the west over the next few days. A south-westerly airstream
00:16introducing much higher temperatures into the Christmas period.
00:19Looking at things in more detail for today now though, after a chilly start across the
00:23south and east, it's mostly fine today. Plenty of sunshine certainly this morning, but more
00:27clouds starting to move in from the west during the course of the afternoon. That cloud though
00:30always thick enough out towards the north and west of the UK to give some outbreaks
00:34of rain. That rain turning heavier and more persistent, more widespread in fact into the
00:38afternoon and a few heavy bursts affecting Northern Ireland for a time, moving in across
00:42Irish Sea areas during the course of the afternoon.
00:45The breeze starts to pick up again after easing during the first part of the day and temperatures
00:49still quite chilly towards the south and east of the UK, peaking this afternoon at around
00:534 to 6 Celsius, that's still a few degrees below the seasonal average. It's out towards
00:58the west and north-west, that rain introducing much milder air, so by the end of the day
01:01temperatures here up to 9 or 10 Celsius, 10 down towards Plymouth there, it's 50 in Fahrenheit
01:06and a few degrees above the seasonal average.
01:10As we head into the evening and through the overnight period, the cloud and outbreaks
01:13of rain across those western and northern areas makes inroads across other parts of
01:17the UK, so we head into a pretty murky night into Christmas Eve morning. Lots of low cloud
01:22around, some hill fog in places, bits and pieces of rain and drizzle, the rain most
01:25widespread towards the north-west of the UK, but given the cloud, a bit of a breeze too,
01:30it's much milder than in recent nights, a generally frost-free night in fact, with temperatures
01:34generally holding up into the low, mid, locally even upper single figures.
01:38As for Christmas Eve itself, well they're pretty grey days in store I'm afraid, lots
01:41of low cloud around, given some hill fog in places too, bits and pieces of rain and drizzle,
01:46mainly though reserved for the north-west of the UK, one or two heavy bursts across
01:49the west of Scotland. Elsewhere, we could see the odd chink of brightness, but on the
01:52whole, as I say, there will be a lot of cloud around, given that south-westerly breeze though,
01:56a much milder day than recent days, temperatures widely in double figures, peaking in the afternoon
02:01at 12 to 13 Celsius, 13 out towards the west for example there, 55 in Fahrenheit and well
02:06above the seasonal average.
02:08We hold on to a lot of cloud though going through the rest of the Christmas period,
02:11the cloud thick enough in places to give the odd spot of drizzle, rain though mainly reserved
02:16for the north-west of the UK, and wherever you are, those temperatures stay above the
02:19seasonal average, with plenty of frost-free weather in store.
02:22That's pretty much it from me, but of course you can keep tuned to The Met Office Forecast
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02:31take care and have a happy Christmas. Bye bye for now.