00:00 Thanks for joining me for your afternoon weather update from the Met Office.
00:04 A bit of a north-south split with the weather today.
00:07 The bigger picture shows quite a lot of cloud across the UK and a big circulation up across Iceland.
00:13 That's an area of low pressure and its weather fronts are dangling south across the UK,
00:18 providing thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain in places,
00:22 but much of the south under the influence of high pressure, so staying generally dry and bright here.
00:27 But those weather fronts are providing some rain, particularly for Northern Ireland, Central and Southern Scotland,
00:30 dull and damp through much of the afternoon.
00:33 Some patchy rain over Northern England, particularly for parts of Cumbria,
00:36 and a little bit of showery rain at times for Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
00:39 But most of England and Wales, certainly the southernmost parts dry,
00:43 and actually brightening up a little this afternoon.
00:45 Could see some sunny spells developing and actually brightening up too over northwest Scotland.
00:50 A few showers possible here and it is getting windier and windier here too.
00:54 Really quite blustery, particularly through this evening and overnight.
00:57 That wind will make it feel quite cool as well, temperatures nine or ten Celsius.
01:01 But in the south, it is another pretty mild day, 16, maybe even 17 Celsius, where we see some sunshine.
01:08 Now, the cloud and the rain will ebb away from Northern Ireland and Southern Scotland this evening,
01:12 slowly trickling into northwest England and across Wales,
01:15 so turning soggy here and that rain spreading into the Midlands and southwest England by dawn.
01:21 To the north again, some clearer skies moving in, but there will be some showers
01:24 and as I said, it's going to get windy, very windy through the night across the far north of Scotland.
01:28 That line of cloud and rain, that is a cold front, so it's introducing colder air to the north.
01:35 The showers will come in and fall of snow over the tops of the mountains across Scotland.
01:39 Enough of a wind to stop too much of a frost,
01:41 but certainly not far from freezing across northern Scotland for Friday morning.
01:46 Whereas to the south of that weather front, still pretty mild, at least for one more night.
01:50 It will be a different feeling day though on Friday for the Midlands,
01:53 south Wales, southwest England are dull on a damp start and across East Anglia in the southeast,
01:58 that rain will creep in fairly speedily through the morning and then linger actually into the afternoon,
02:04 especially over parts of Kent.
02:06 So some outbreaks of rain clearing the southeast slowly, but surely.
02:09 Elsewhere, brightening up, some sunny spells, but there will be showers packing into Wales,
02:14 northern England, northern Ireland and plenty for Scotland coming and going through the day
02:18 with snow over the tops of the hills blown in by that strong and gusty wind.
02:23 In fact, we'll all notice that wind, I suspect a chillier feel everywhere.
02:28 Temperatures compared to where they have been through the week, much lower, but actually not far off average.
02:33 Probably a touch below in some places.
02:35 This map is showing temperatures compared to average and we see what's most of the UK.
02:40 We're in that plus three to minus three bracket.
02:42 So, yes, it is going to feel colder, but it's not especially cold for the time of year.
02:47 As we go through Friday evening, the rain will pull away probably by the end of the afternoon, actually, from Kent.
02:52 And then we've got the clearest spells, lots more showers packing in, particularly to the west.
02:56 So for Wales, western parts of England, northern Ireland and western Scotland,
02:59 where it stays very blustery with further snow likely over the tops of the hills.
03:05 It stays showery into the weekend as well.
03:07 Blustery, frequent, heavy showers on Saturday, some thunderstorms in the mix as well.
03:12 Sunday looks like the drier day of the two, quite a bit calmer as well,
03:16 with a better chance of seeing some sunny spells.
03:18 But we'll all notice that cooler feel from Friday lasting through the weekend as well.
03:22 For more details on the weekend, you can catch our weekend forecast.
03:26 That'll be available on YouTube by Thursday afternoon.
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