A wet afternoon for most, as rain moves eastwards across the UK. This rain will be turning heavy in parts, particularly across northern England and southern Scotland. Feeling milder, although gusty winds are expected for many. Turning brighter in the west later in the afternoon. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 20/02/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
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00:00Thanks for joining me for your Thursday afternoon weather update from the Met
00:04office. For most of February we've been looking out east but now we have to look
00:09out west. The weather's changed you've probably noticed much milder but also
00:13much wetter and windier. Here's the satellite picture the UK smothered in
00:17cloud already and a real mishmash of low-pressure systems and weather fronts
00:22out in the Atlantic. This area of cloud is developing that's going to bring a
00:26spell of wet and very windy weather during Friday. But before we get there
00:31through the rest of today weather fronts crossing the country the isobars pretty
00:34close together it's blustery it's gusty and you can see from the radar we've
00:38already seen some pretty heavy rain. More to come as well one zone of rain
00:41crossing Scotland's heavy showers crossing southern parts of England. We
00:45need to watch this area across North Wales around lunchtime then into
00:49northern England southern Scotland some really intense rain from that maybe
00:53some hailstones and all of a sudden the winds will start to gust up as well. So
00:58some pretty nasty traveling conditions particularly on the M62 for example. It does turn a
01:03bit dry and a bit brighter in many western areas through the afternoon into
01:06the evening time but it stays pretty gusty those winds drawing up mild air
01:11from the southwest so it isn't cold certainly a lot warmer than most of
01:15February so far. Temperatures into the teens we could squeak up to 15 in one or
01:19two locations. Still some pretty heavy rain across parts of Yorkshire into the
01:23early evening and through the rush hour but it does scoot away and many places
01:28become a lot drier through the first half of the night but it doesn't last.
01:32Look at this that cloud we saw earlier on the satellite picture just pushing in
01:36further outbreaks of rain getting quite heavy in the west and the winds getting
01:40stronger through the night in these western areas as well. But still drawing
01:44in that mild air so overnight temperatures double digits to start
01:48Friday for a good chunk of the country. So again a mild start but for quite a
01:53few of us a wet start and increasingly windy as I mentioned. We do have warnings
01:58in place for gusty winds south coast of Wales, west coast of Wales, the east coast
02:03of Northern Ireland, southwestern parts of Scotland gusts of 50-60 miles an hour
02:06during Friday morning into the early afternoon maybe even close to 70 miles
02:11an hour along some coasts. We also have warnings for the rain which increases
02:16over southwest Scotland through the morning and then peps up and lingers
02:19across much of Scotland during the day. Much of central and eastern England will
02:23have a dry start to Friday and many eastern counties will stay dry all day
02:27but it's far from dry in the west that rain building up those gusty winds which
02:32will start to ease a little bit through the afternoon. Northern Ireland, Wales
02:36actually may well cheer up a little bit for Friday afternoon so again turning a
02:40little bit brighter as I said staying mostly dry until the evening time across
02:45East Anglia and the southeast. But those gusty winds will be noticeable still
02:49bringing that mild air temperatures again into the teens again we could
02:52reach 15 or perhaps even 16 Celsius where we see a little bit of sunshine.
02:57Now that rain will creep its way towards East Anglia and the southeast. There's a
03:01bit of a question mark about how long it lingers into Friday evening but it could
03:05be a bit of a damp end to the day here. Elsewhere though it is turning a little
03:09bit drier or with some showers getting into the western isles of Scotland. So
03:13that weather front as I said a bit of a question mark about how quickly it
03:16clears through Friday and into Saturday but generally speaking he's squinting
03:23there's a little bump in the isobars there that means a little ridge of high
03:26pressure bringing some drier conditions for Saturday. But look at this for Sunday
03:30another low more weather fronts the isobars very tightly packed a very
03:35blustery day on Sunday and further heavy rain to come. Further warnings have been
03:40issued for Sunday. You can see all of those warnings for yourself see how you
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