A very cold night with a widespread and hard frost. Turning cloudier across Northern Ireland with some outbreaks of rain, and staying cloudy for southwest England and Pembrokeshire. Fog patches developing in places, particularly northwest England, the Midlands and eastern England. Temperatures falling well below freezing for most, but milder by morning across the far west. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 09/01/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
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00:00Thanks for joining me for your latest update from the Met Office. If you're
00:03watching on YouTube do hit the subscribe button. Now it is going to turn a bit
00:07milder over the next few days but it's going to take some time and Friday night,
00:11Saturday morning may well be the nadir of this current cold spell. A hard frost
00:16forming in most locations but we're starting to see a change. Clouding over
00:21for Northern Ireland, outbreaks of rain and drizzle with some hill snow
00:24trickling in here. Staying fairly cloudy over Pembrokeshire, Devon, Cornwall and
00:28the Isles of Scilly. Elsewhere though generally clear skies. Fog is going to
00:32thicken up and that could be quite dense for Saturday. It may linger over parts of
00:37the Welsh Marches, North West England, the Midlands and Eastern England too. For
00:42many though we'll keep the clear skies, light winds and that will mean those
00:45tumbling temperatures down to minus three, minus four. That's even in towns
00:49and cities, maybe lower in the urban parts across Scotland. Rural spots across
00:54Scotland, Northern England where there's snow lying on the ground could get to
00:57minus teens, maybe minus 15, minus 16 in one or two locations. But further west we
01:03may well start at the weekend above freezing. That milder air because of the
01:09thicker clouds will also make for a damp start for Northern Ireland. Rain and
01:13drizzle slowly clearing here and edging into Western Scotland. Again mostly rain
01:17and drizzle, some snow possible over the hills. A little bit of that wet weather
01:20trickling across the Isle of Man, up towards Cumbria and North Wales through
01:25the afternoon. Generally dry in the far southwest but staying quite cloudy here,
01:29brightening up in Northern Ireland. Sunnier skies over Eastern England,
01:33North East Scotland. But don't forget parts of the Midlands, Eastern England
01:36there will be that patchy fog that could linger all day and if it does temperatures
01:41will well probably stay below freezing. In the sunnier skies we could get up to
01:46two or three just like it has been on recent days, so well below average for
01:49the time of year. Notice further west though temperatures are ticking up,
01:53something that will continue as we go through Saturday night and Sunday. As
01:56this cloud continues to edge in, the rain, drizzle, hill snow tending to fizzle out.
02:01Again some fog is likely to reform or just thicken up again on Saturday night
02:06and Sunday morning across parts of the east. But many places will be dry. There
02:10is a weather front approaching however bringing more of a change as we go
02:14through the second half of the weekend. Still pretty chilly, still again a
02:18widespread frost over central and eastern England but more areas further
02:21west likely to stay above freezing into Sunday morning. Sunday is a bit of a
02:27mishmash, again most places dry. There will be some fog around which may take a
02:30while to clear. There'll be that weather front I talked about earlier bringing
02:33rain across the northwest of Scotland, some of that trickling into the north of
02:37Northern Ireland and eventually getting into the Northern Isles also. Still
02:41mostly light and patchy at this stage but notice the winds are starting to
02:45strengthen. For a good chunk of England and Wales it'll be dry, quite a bit of
02:48cloud around but we should see some spells of sunshine over the Midlands.
02:51Brighter day for South Wales and southwest England compared to Friday
02:55and Saturday and it is slowly turning warmer. You can tell that just by the
03:00way the winds are coming up from the south so eventually bringing milder air
03:03but it'll still I suspect feel pretty cold over these eastern areas, 5-6
03:08degrees at best. Further west we're looking at 8-9 maybe by the end of the
03:12day double digits in one or two locations. So yes the milder air is on
03:16the way but it's going to take its time before it reaches central and eastern
03:20England. Should turn milder here as we head into next week. More details on all
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