The evening starts off dry in most places, with some clear skies in Scotland, but there is some wet weather along the west of the UK mainland, including snow in southern Scotland. As the night progresses the precipitation moves northeastwards , bringing widespread rain to Wales, northern England and southern Scotland while there will be snow in the highlands. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 14/02/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.
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00:00Hello again. There's a fair bit of wet weather pushing across many parts as we go through
00:05this evening, overnight and into tomorrow. That's because there is a weather system.
00:09It's already spread across parts of south-west England, Wales, Northern Ireland, but it's
00:13making its way north-eastwards. It does then bash against the high pressure that's still
00:17to the east of us and actually within this high pressure there's some chilly air around
00:21and as that chilly air undercuts the rain that's coming in, we are likely to see some
00:26wintriness in a few places, so some sleet, some snow, even a bit of freezing rain for
00:31some places too. As well as that, because of the position of the high, it kind of stops
00:35the frontal system from moving through particularly quickly, so it's kind of going to stall across
00:40some places, eventually pushing through and easing as it goes, but it's going to be quite
00:45slow progress as we go through tomorrow. Looking at the details though and some clear
00:50skies across parts of Scotland to start the night and so an early frost quite likely here,
00:54but then we see the cloud across other places building, so most places turning cloudy and
00:59there will be some heavy rain around. The heaviest rain likely to be across parts of
01:02Wales, south-west England into northern England as well. Here we're likely to see some relatively
01:07high totals, shouldn't cause any major problems, but actually across the far north of Scotland,
01:12even large chunks of Northern Ireland, but also towards the south-east of the UK here
01:16actually staying mostly dry with the rain largely avoiding us here. Temperature wise
01:21and like I said, a chilly start to the night where we have some clear skies, so temperatures
01:24dipping a little bit below freezing, perhaps even a few degrees below freezing across
01:28some parts of northern Scotland where we get some clearer skies for longest. Otherwise
01:33and with the milder, cloudier, wetter weather coming in from the west, temperatures not
01:37dropping as low as they have done some recent nights. It's worth bearing in mind that like
01:42I said there is some wintriness, so some rain, some sleet, some snow, even a bit of freezing
01:47rain mixed in with this, particularly as it pushes across parts of northern England, particularly
01:52to the east of the Pennines over the North York Moors, for example, we are likely to
01:55see a few centimetres of snow building up above around 150 metres or so, so that could
02:00cause some problems on the roads, as well as this, the risk of freezing rain, especially
02:05around the Pennines, above 200 metres perhaps we could see some freezing rain leading to
02:09some pretty icy conditions as we go through tomorrow, so do take care if you're going
02:13on the roads in particular. Otherwise and as we go through tomorrow, like I said it's
02:17pretty slow progress for the system moving through, but nonetheless it is going north-eastwards
02:22and so the rain, the sleet, the snow and the rain is clearing way towards the east as we
02:27go through the day and whilst it is going to stay pretty damp across this kind of central
02:32slice of the country, towards the south, the south-east, actually largely avoiding the
02:36worst of the rain and in the south-west we have something a bit brighter developing as
02:40we go through the afternoon and also across parts of north and north-western Scotland
02:44avoiding a lot of the rain, though there will be some showery outbreaks of rain, sleet
02:48and snow pushing in from the east across eastern parts of Scotland. Temperatures are still
02:52going to be a little bit on the low side, particularly towards eastern parts, further
02:56west that milder air coming in, so good chance that we'll get into double figures across
03:00some parts of Cornwall for example, but most places we're factoring in that with the cloud,
03:05the rain, the sleet, the snow, it's going to feel pretty chilly, even if temperatures
03:09have picked up a little bit for some of us. As we go overnight, Saturday night into Sunday,
03:14again it's not making a huge amount of progress, this frontal system, so it stays pretty damp
03:19across some parts of northern England into Midlands towards East Anglia as well and there
03:23could still be some wintryness over any higher ground as well, but we have those clearer
03:28skies from the south-west starting to push their way in, so across parts of Wales, greater
03:32chances of seeing some clearer breaks and still across western parts of Scotland some
03:35breaks in the cloud as well, otherwise largely cloudy, but do watch out, there is another
03:40front waiting out in the far west. Where we see the skies clear, you would expect it to
03:44be a bit chillier, but because we have milder air towards the west-southwest of us, I'm
03:48not expecting temperatures to drop especially low here, it's kind of towards the north-northeast
03:52where if we get any clear skies, we have the greatest chance of some frost developing.
03:58Through Sunday, like I mentioned, there is this front out towards the west, but it's
04:01not going to make much progress towards the east, in fact it's really just going to bring
04:05a bit of cloud and some outbreaks of mostly light rain to Northern Ireland, perhaps the
04:09far west of Scotland, England and Wales later on. Elsewhere, Sunday does look like the drier
04:15day of the two this weekend, not totally dry, there will be a few showery bursts coming
04:20into eastern parts in particular and over the higher ground of Scotland, at least quite
04:24likely to fall as sleet or snow, but elsewhere, mostly dry, quite cloudy, perhaps not quite
04:29as cloudy as it suggests behind me here, I think we will see some brighter breaks,
04:33but a fair deal of grey sky on offer yet again. Temperatures, well, similar-ish to Saturday,
04:38a little bit higher for some, a little bit lower for others, all the time if you're stuck
04:42under any cloud, it's not going to feel particularly warm.
04:45Now, as we go into next week and we stick with the high pressure to the east of us,
04:50low pressure trying to come in from the west and this battleground as to exactly what's
04:54going to happen, well, that's all still to play for, but I think we are going to see
04:57a transition as we go through next week of something a little bit more changeable coming
05:01in from the west and with that, our temperatures climbing up a little bit as well. So, turning
05:05a bit milder as we go through next week. For more information, do head to our app where
05:10you'll be able to find our latest 14-day outlook video with Anna. Otherwise, I'll see you again
05:15soon. Bye-bye.