Wet and windy conditions affecting northwest Scotland, with some showery rain also for Northern Ireland. Largely cloudy for the rest of Scotland and northwest England. Cloud and patchy drizzle across central southern England and the Midlands, drifting towards the southeast. Turning brighter for southwest England, Wales, the Midlands and northeast England. Temperatures slightly above average for the time of year - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 03/02/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Hello welcome to your afternoon update from the Met Office. Bit of rain around
00:04tomorrow but apart from that many of us are going to have a pretty dry week
00:08thanks to high pressure dominating down to the southeast of the UK. Up to the
00:13northwest we've got a big area of low pressure, an intense area of low pressure
00:17barreling its way across Iceland but it's pushing away to the north. This
00:22trailing weather front though is fast approaching. The isobars are also
00:25squidging together so that's where the winds picking up and actually turning
00:29pretty wet and windy across the northwest of Scotland staying that way
00:32throughout the afternoon. A little bit of showery rain getting into Northern
00:36Ireland through the afternoon as well. There's a little bit of drizzle here and
00:39there over central parts of southern England and the Midlands drifting
00:42towards the southeast but that's really quite light and very patchy. Most of
00:46England and Wales staying dry. Quite cloudy across East Anglia in the
00:49southeast this afternoon but brightening up over the Midlands, southwest England,
00:53East Wales, parts of northeast England seeing some decent spells of sunshine. A
00:58little breezy here but certainly quite pleasant I suspect for early February
01:029, 10, 11 Celsius. The winds though are really picking up across the far
01:06northwest getting very gusty and blustery across northwest Scotland with
01:10that rain coming in and intensifying through this evening. Not very pleasant
01:14at all. That rain will spread across Northern Ireland and then really pep up
01:18across parts of southwest Scotland overnight and into Tuesday morning. So
01:22we've got our Met Office yellow warning in place for parts of southwest
01:25Scotland so that rain as I say could really build up here. We're seeing some
01:29of that rain by the end of the night trickle towards Anglesey, parts of the
01:33Lake District too but a good part of England and Wales staying dry overnight.
01:37Quite murky and misty again across the southeast but not as cold as last night.
01:41Temperatures mostly staying up at four or five degrees Celsius across central
01:46and eastern parts. Milder still further west temperatures starting tomorrow eight
01:51or nine Celsius. So not a cold start but it will be a wet and windy start through
01:54the central belt across parts of northwest England, northwest Wales. That
01:59rain pulling away from Northern Ireland could just push back into the east to
02:03affect Belfast for a time through the morning and then it crosses through
02:06Wales, southwest England. So things turning wet and windy here during
02:10tomorrow. Behind it, it turns brighter but with lots of showers packing in to
02:14northwest Scotland. Staying pretty windy in many areas particularly in the
02:19northwest through the night. Slowly easing a little tomorrow but the winds
02:23also picking up as this line of rain edges into the Midlands. Eastern parts
02:28of England generally staying dry through daylight hours but eventually that rain
02:31will come across here through the evening too. Temperature wise though
02:34double digits almost across the board. Obviously not feeling very pleasant if
02:38you're stuck under the zone of rain but that should be clearing so brighter
02:41skies to end the day for Northern England and Wales compared to the
02:45morning time. That area of rain, it's a weather front, will continue to trickle
02:49as I said towards East Anglia and the southeast but also continue to fizzle
02:52out. So it really amounted to too much during Tuesday evening by which time
02:56lots more showers packing into the northwest of Scotland and the north of
03:00Northern Ireland. Some thunderstorms possible, hail mixed in as well. There is
03:05that weather front pushing across. Now as we go through the next couple of days
03:09the isobars pointing out to the Atlantic so our winds are coming in from the west
03:14but we are going to see quite a big switch around through this week. That
03:16weather front moves out the way, high pressure moves in. That as I said at the
03:21start will bring many places some dry weather for most of this week. But as the
03:26high shifts up towards Scandinavia, well it means the winds have completely
03:30switched direction. So we start with a westerly wind, we're going to end the week
03:34with more of an easterly wind and that will bring colder air as we head towards
03:39the end of the week and into the weekend. Something we'll be watching closely as we
03:43go through this week. It is likely to turn quite a bit colder. Aiden will have
03:48much more on that in this week's fully detailed weather for the week ahead and
03:52that will be available on our YouTube channel by Monday afternoon so you may as
03:57well subscribe.