18 April - national forecast presented by Jonathan Vautrey
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00:00Hello there, a very good evening to you. I hope you've been able to enjoy this first
00:04day of the long weekend, even if some of us may well have been stuck inside throughout.
00:09We currently have yellow rain warnings enforced across western areas of the UK, particularly
00:13for past the south-west England, the Banar Blacheniog in Wales, and the Moorne and Antrim
00:18mountains for Northern Ireland. We'll be seeing quite a lot of rainfall over the next 24 hours,
00:23so it is worth taking care and being wary if you are travelling about in any of these
00:28regions. Some very heavy pulses of rain will be continuing throughout this evening and
00:33overnight, generally spreading their way northwards, so certainly not ruling out some of that into
00:37north-western England, western areas of Scotland turning fairly damp as well. There may be the
00:42odd spot that manages to spread its way a little bit further eastwards, but generally the further
00:46east that you get it will be a drier night overall. For most of us though, it's going to be windy
00:50and also fairly mild, temperatures holding up between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius in our
00:55towns and cities. As we move throughout Saturday though, we end up with a bit of an east-west
01:01split in conditions. It's going to remain wettest across Northern Ireland and parts of
01:06north-western Scotland, where that rain really will continue right throughout the day. It should
01:10be an improving picture for Wales and south-west England. Into the afternoon, the rain will ease
01:14off here and things should turn drier with some brighter skies arriving, but the best of any
01:19sunshine will be out towards the east of Scotland and England. Temperatures around average for the time of
01:24year, peaking roughly around 15 degrees Celsius. But with quite a keen breeze still coming in off the
01:30north sea, it is going to be feeling quite cool in places, particularly directly along those coastal
01:35areas where you are exposed to that wind. This area of rain in the north-west and its weather front
01:41associated with it will be lingering into the first part of Easter Sunday, but eventually it should ease
01:46its way off. But we have another system just moving into the far south-east of England, so some
01:51showery outbreaks of rain will be spreading into south-east and England as we head throughout the
01:55day. For most other areas in between those two systems, though, Easter Sunday is looking like a
02:01very fine and pleasant day overall. Some decent spells of sunshine in there and generally lighter
02:06winds overall as well will make it feel a bit more pleasant. Still a bit of a breeze around some of
02:10these coastal districts nonetheless. Temperatures perhaps a bit more widely now, arriving towards that
02:1615, 16 degrees Celsius mark. We may even touch a little bit higher than that in a few spots as
02:21well. So if you do manage to catch that sunshine, it should be feeling pleasantly warm. The brollies
02:27though do need to stay on hand because as we head into Easter Monday, the showers will be turning more
02:31widely, particularly for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. They could be heavy in places. It's looking
02:37like Scotland on Easter Monday will be the driest of the nations with the best of any of that sunshine
02:42still making its way through. We'll have plenty more updates of what you can expect though over
02:46the next few days. So do subscribe to the YouTube channel for those and we'll see you again here
02:50later on. Bye bye.