A cold night with widespread frost and icy patches. Wintry showers affect northern Scotland, giving further accumulations of snow, and a few wintry showers drifting into eastern coastal areas, Northern Ireland and Wales. Temperatures widely falling below freezing, and well below freezing where we have snow cover. Cloud increasing later across the far south west, with rain and hill snow. Yellow warnings in place for ice and snow. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 09/01/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.
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00:00Hi there. Cold weather continues across the UK with widespread frosts and some icy patches
00:07around during the next few nights. Certainly on Thursday night there will be a continuation
00:12of wintry showers, sleet and snow showers coming into the north of Scotland. Another
00:16few centimetres of snow building up in places. Also some showers tickling the east coast
00:21of the UK, one or two into Northern Ireland and North Wales. And where we see these showers
00:26and indeed where we don't see the showers, there's the risk of slippery surfaces because
00:30it's going to be a widespread very cold night. Minus 4, minus 5 Celsius widely, as low as
00:35minus 16 or minus 17 Celsius where we've got snow covered parts of Northern England and
00:41Scotland. There'll also be some freezing fog patches to wake up to Northern Ireland, parts
00:45of Wales and the Midlands. So a very wintry flavour once again. But to the south-west
00:51an area of rain is moving in, a milder start to Cornwall. But as that rain falls on to
00:55frozen surfaces there's the risk of icy patches in the south-west and across parts of Wales.
01:00And a few more centimetres of snow above 150 metres, so predominantly Dartmoor. 8 degrees
01:06there in Camborne but for some places, particularly where we've got freezing fog persisting and
01:10snow cover, temperatures won't rise above freezing all day. That leads us on to another
01:16very cold night on Friday night. Widely clear skies leading to a widespread harsh frost.
01:24And also widespread freezing fog once again likely through the Midlands into eastern
01:28parts of England. Temperatures here dipping to minus 4, minus 5 Celsius. Again minus double
01:34figures for some of the colder parts of Northern Britain. But for Northern Ireland into Wales
01:39and the south-west a different start to the weekend. Here we've got cloud moving in, outbreaks
01:44of rain. Once again falling on to cold surfaces, potential for some icy patches. But the rain,
01:50it's going to be light and patchy. It's going to be fizzling out later. It is a cloudier
01:53day in the west. Clear skies further east unless you keep that stubborn fog. Then we've
02:00got high pressure building across the south, so mostly dry here and only slowly turning
02:05milder whilst it's a quicker return to mild air into Sunday for northern areas because
02:10of a south-westerly breeze strengthening and bringing outbreaks of rain to western Scotland
02:15along with a rapid thaw and quickly melting snow. So a big change into next week. High
02:22pressure in the south, much milder further north with the wind picking up and outbreaks
02:27of rain at times for western Scotland.