09 February - national forecast presented by Jonathan Vautrey
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00:00Hello there, or good afternoon to you. For some of us it does feel like we're still
00:04having to hunt down the sunshine at the moment but there are a few glimmers out
00:08there for a lucky few of us. We've currently got this quite extensive area
00:12of cloud out in the North Sea that is drifting its way in across the UK. Why?
00:16Well high pressure has situated itself across Scandinavia and with winds moving
00:21in a clockwise direction around that we are feeding in an easterly wind from the
00:25North Sea and that is bringing in that moisture, bringing in that cloud for many
00:29of us. But areas further towards the west are starting off today on a bit of a
00:33brighter sunnier note particularly for parts of southwest England, southwest
00:36Wales, also parts of County Derry and up into northwestern Scotland as well. There
00:40has been a decent amount of sunshine to kick off the day and these areas will
00:43hold on to a touch of that brightness throughout this afternoon as well
00:46particularly across the northwest where it is going to be a quite nice and
00:49pleasant day. Further towards the east though where we're stuck underneath that
00:53cloud it's going to be grey and drab, outbreaks of rain in places, showers
00:56maybe even a touch of hill snow as well. Underneath that cloud it is going to be
01:01feeling rather cold, temperatures around 6-7 degrees Celsius at best but
01:06particularly into this afternoon and later on into the evening that easterly
01:09wind is going to start picking up in strength and we're going to see an
01:13increased wind chill factor added on top of that. Those outbreaks of rain will
01:16continue this evening and overnight particularly across parts of England and
01:19Wales but clearer skies will remain across more northwestern areas of
01:23Scotland and here temperatures will drop off quite a bit, below as minus 5
01:28maybe minus 6 degrees Celsius in some sheltered areas. Pockets of frost
01:33potential across other western areas where we see a few clear spells
01:36developing but most areas underneath the cloud will see temperatures more around
01:403 to 4 degrees Celsius as we start off the new working week. But despite that
01:46very cold start in northwestern Scotland it's here once again where we're going to
01:49see the best of the sunshine throughout the day for the Highlands, the Outer
01:53Hebrides, parts of Argyll and Bute, a very lovely day here with widespread
01:57sunshine in there. Elsewhere that cloud is still coming in from the North Sea
02:01starting to see more showers drifting their way in for the Pennines and
02:04particularly we could see a couple of centimetres of snow building up in
02:07places and it is going to be feeling very cold once again. Temperatures are
02:12starting to struggle with that lack of sunshine, 5-6 degrees Celsius as our
02:16temperatures on the thermometer but when we add on the strength of that increasing
02:20easterly wind it is going to be feeling more like freezing for the vast majority
02:24of us. So certainly Monday and even into next week it is going to be one where we
02:29are going to be having to wrap up warm if we are outside particularly when
02:32exposed to that very biting easterly wind on those eastern coastal districts.
02:37So this will be a very similar picture into Monday evening and that stagnant
02:41weather pattern is looking like it will stay around for a good portion of this
02:46forthcoming week with that Scandinavian high still rooting itself in play. We'll
02:51have plenty more updates on what you can expect though over the next few days on
02:54our YouTube channel so do subscribe for those. Otherwise we'll see you again soon.
02:57Bye bye.