07 January - national forecast presented by Alex Deakin
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00:00Thanks for joining me for your afternoon weather update from the Met Office.
00:03The Met Office weather warnings continue, the wintry weather continues and there
00:07are also Environment Agency flood warnings in place as well. Check out the
00:11website for more details on all of that. Here's the view from space. First thing
00:16this morning, big swirl of cloud, that's the low pressure that brought the snow
00:19over the weekend. Down to the southwest there's a bank of cloud that is going to
00:24mix things up as we go into tomorrow. But in between the two, these lumpy
00:28looking clouds, well they're the showers, the wintry showers that have produced
00:32more snow over Greater Manchester. Snow flow is coming into Northern Ireland and
00:36across Northern Scotland as well. We have snow and ice warnings in place still
00:40across Northern and Western Scotland, Northern Ireland through the rest of
00:43today and tonight could be very slippery again as things freeze up once more. The
00:48showers feeding into Northwest England and North Wales, a mixture of sleet and
00:53snow here further south and east. Many places actually dry and fine this
00:57afternoon, quite a bit of sunshine around. The winds are lighter in many
01:00areas as well but there is a bitter wind still blowing across Northeastern
01:04Scotland. Temperatures here two or three degrees add on that wind and it feels
01:09perishing. Elsewhere temperatures similar to yesterday's but as I said
01:12lighter winds doesn't feel quite so cold. Pretty quickly though those temperatures
01:17will be back down below freezing as we go through this evening. So again
01:21anything freezing up on the roads and the pavements making things really quite
01:25slippery. So we do have that ice and snow warning in place for tonight and
01:29into Wednesday. Could turn a bit foggy in some spots as well, parts of Northern
01:33Ireland, Northwest England and across the Midlands but for many areas it's just
01:37going to be a very clear night. The winds continuing to ease down which means
01:41temperatures will fall further. A colder night than last night. Negative double
01:47figures likely in rural parts of Northern England and certainly across
01:50parts of Scotland. These are the values in towns and cities. Minus 2, minus 3.
01:54Pretty widely. Notice however maybe not quite so cold in the far southwest.
02:00Clouds starting to edge in here. That weather system we saw earlier. That is
02:03going to mix things up as we go through tomorrow. Still a bit of uncertainty
02:08about how much wet weather we get coming up from the south. Southern counties of
02:13England will see some rain and snow likely. I say some uncertainty about how
02:18far north it gets. So how much snow we exactly see will really depend on subtle
02:23differences in the wind direction. The wind coming in from the sea, slightly
02:27milder conditions. Wind coming in from the land means longer time for things to
02:31cool down. So there could be some snow across southern counties of England
02:34during Wednesday. It's far from certain however we do have that warning in place.
02:40Something we're keeping a very close eye on. For many other areas it's a dry fine
02:44day on Wednesday. Still a few wintry showers in Northern Scotland across the
02:48north of Northern Ireland as well. The showers continuing here and there but
02:52elsewhere many places dry and fine with some lengthy spells of sunshine. But
02:56again it's going to be cold. We start minus 2, minus 3. We get up to plus 2, plus 3
03:00in many locations. Could see some milder air trying to push into the far
03:04southwest later on. But the potential still for this snowy weather across
03:09southern counties of England through Wednesday evening's rush hour before it
03:13finally starts to skirt away. As I said still uncertainty about how much snow we
03:18see. Whether it be more of a rainy mixture. Elsewhere again things likely to
03:22freeze up through Wednesday night. So again potentially very icy. Do keep up
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