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00:00 Hello, very good day to you and welcome to the latest deep dive. I'm Alex Burkill, Met
00:05 Office Meteorologist and thank you for joining me. I'm coming to you here from Met Office
00:10 HQ in Exeter and we are going to take this little deep dive, an in-depth look into what
00:16 the weather's been doing and what it's going to do over the next few days. Thank you as
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00:39 content as well. Also, I will be having a look at the comments afterwards, so do write
00:45 a comment to me if there's any constructive feedback, anything you'd like to see more
00:49 of in these deep dives, anything that you really appreciated me going through or anything
00:54 that Aidan and Alex have gone through in the past that you'd like to see more of. Do leave
00:58 a comment and I will be looking at them later on.
01:02 Before I start, I will be looking as we go ahead at what's to come, but I think it's
01:07 worth having a look at what has already happened over the last few days. You'll well be aware
01:12 that there was some pretty extreme weather over the weekend, so let's start off looking
01:16 at that. First of all, behind me I have the satellite and radar imagery from over the
01:22 weekend and if I actually start off and zoom into the UK a little bit just so it's a little
01:27 bit closer, a little bit more detail here, but what you can see, and this is later on
01:32 Saturday, I'm actually going to take that back to earlier on in the day, and yes, Saturday
01:37 as we expected was a really wet day across Scotland. We had this front that invigorated,
01:43 had a bit more energy behind it as it just stalled and lingered across Scotland as we
01:48 went through Saturday into Sunday. The forecast did change a little bit as we got nearer the
01:53 time. The heaviest rain got pushed back a little bit, so it went more Saturday into
01:57 Sunday than we were saying this time last week perhaps, but we did warn people, we did
02:03 eventually issue some amber warnings because there was going to be some severe disruption
02:07 and you probably have seen some of the footage, some of the videos, some of the photos showing
02:12 the heavy flooding across parts of Scotland, which was due to this intense rain. Official
02:16 gauges recorded up to 160 millimetres, but some private weather stations recorded close
02:22 to 200 millimetres, so it really was a very, very wet picture. A very different story though
02:28 across the south. If we just run through the last few days, so if we go through Saturday
02:34 and then into Sunday, whilst there was still some heavy rain across parts of Scotland,
02:38 you can really see the high pressure across Europe that was dominating the picture across
02:43 southern areas and that's why we had a lot of fine settled sunny weather here. Yes, there
02:48 was some mist and fog around first thing, but by day there was plenty of sunshine and
02:52 that continued well into Monday and even into today to be honest as we go through Tuesday.
02:58 So here's Monday and you can see lots of fine settled weather through the night and then
03:02 into Tuesday we've also got plenty of fine settled weather, perhaps the best of this
03:07 in the southeast, but it wasn't just the sunshine that we had, we had that very warm air. We've
03:11 still got some very warm air across the south. I'll talk about that in a second. The other
03:16 thing then, whilst we're on the chart for Tuesday, you can already see some heavy rain
03:20 that started to push into parts of Scotland. Again, we do have a warning out for this.
03:25 That's because although the rainfall totals aren't especially high, we're looking at 40,
03:30 50 millimetres, that kind of thing, because it's coming so close after the intense rain,
03:35 those heavy downpours that we saw over the weekend, we could see some further issues.
03:39 So individually on its own, this event wouldn't be particularly noteworthy, but because of
03:44 the heavy rain that it's following on from, that's why we do have that warning in force.
03:49 So let's look back at what happened over the weekend in a bit more detail. And starting
03:56 off, let's have a look at our temperatures. So I mentioned we had some extreme warmth
04:01 across the south and we still do at the moment. And in fact, we have had three consecutive
04:07 days already when we've had temperatures exceed 25 Celsius. In October, the last time that
04:13 happened was 2011. So a long time ago for us to have three consecutive days where temperatures
04:19 have exceeded 25. On Saturday, it was 25.4 in Manston was the highest. On Sunday, it
04:25 was 25.8 at Kew Gardens. And on Monday, it was 26.1 at East Manning. Now, at time of
04:30 recording, we have a couple of sites across south-east England, which are at 24.9. Not
04:36 quite exceeded that 25 Celsius, but I am expecting them to just about get above 25 Celsius, perhaps
04:43 not quite as high as the 26.1 we saw on Monday. But nonetheless, I do think this is going
04:48 to be the fourth consecutive day where we will see temperatures exceeding 25 Celsius.
04:54 And I think we have to go back to 1959 for the last time that we've had a period of four
04:58 or more days above 25 Celsius in October. So it is unusually warm. And the fact that
05:05 we've had a warm spell now has had a knock-on effect on averages if we look firstly at the
05:10 whole month. So you may have seen a similar chart to this before if you watch our deep
05:14 dives quite regularly. What this chart shows is mean average temperature as we've gone
05:22 so far through October. The blue line is for October 2023, and the orange shading shows
05:28 how far above average we are for the time of year. And this black line shows the average
05:33 based on the 1991 to 2020 field. The orange line shows the warmest on record. The blue
05:39 line shows the coldest on record, but we're way beyond that. And what you can see is as
05:44 we've gone through the start of month, yes, it was significantly warmer than average. But
05:48 as we've gone through the last few days, we've got so far above average that we're actually
05:53 currently at this stage in October. So this is data up to and including the 9th of October.
06:00 We are warmer than we have been at any point in the past. So this is the warmest first
06:05 9 days of October for the UK on record when we look at mean temperature, which is pretty
06:11 extreme. It's also, if we looked at autumn, the warmest start to autumn, so the first
06:16 39 days of autumn on record. But if we also look at the same chart, but this time looking
06:23 for the whole year so far, you can see again, this black line is very, it's far above average.
06:30 You can see we've been above average for the whole year when you take in the accumulative
06:34 effect. And you can see that as we have come with this recent very warm spell across southern
06:41 parts of the UK, it's led to us getting very close to the all time record. The warmest
06:45 year on record was last year, 2022. And it looks like we're second at the moment at this
06:51 stage in the year. And we're not really that far off that all time record. Now, temperatures
06:57 are going to plummet. I'll come on to that in a second. We're going to get some cold
07:00 weather coming through. So we're going to see particularly that October chart is going
07:04 to be a very different picture if we look at it again this time next week. But for the
07:08 time being at this stage in October, it's the warmest that it ever has been on record.
07:13 And this time in autumn as well. And we're very close when we look at the whole year
07:17 as well. But the other thing then to look at is that rainfall. So we had some extreme
07:23 warmth in the south and still do. But as I've already discussed, we had some very heavy
07:28 rain across parts of the south. And that, as well as the temperatures, led to quite
07:32 a north-south split when we look at our averages. This map shows the average rainfall-- sorry,
07:37 shows the rainfall observed across the UK in the first nine days of October and compares
07:43 it to the average. Now, it's worth noting this map compares the first nine days of October
07:48 2023 with the average for the whole month. As a result, there are lots of browns because
07:53 at this stage, you'd expect around 29% of the rainfall. And so because it's comparing
08:00 what's happened so far this October with the average for the whole month, it is quite widely
08:05 very dry compared to average. In the south-southeast, unsurprisingly, there's barely been any rain
08:10 in some places. So it's very dry here. But why I'm showing you this is because you can
08:15 see a few blues across parts of Scotland. Some parts of Scotland-- Dundee, for example--
08:20 have already had more than their average rainfall for the whole month in just the first eight,
08:26 nine days. To be honest, Monday wasn't a really wet day for many places. So it really was
08:31 up to and including the weekend that we saw that heavy rain. So some places have already
08:36 seen more than their average monthly rainfall in just the first eight days of the month.
08:43 We can also look at that in a different way if we use these charts. And they're similar
08:47 to the one that I showed you just now with temperature. So it's cumulative for the whole
08:52 month as we go through, but this time showing rainfall across southern England. And this
08:56 is for the first nine days. And what you can see is it's been exceptionally dry. That's
09:00 no surprise. We've had high pressure dominating. And there's barely been any rain. In fact,
09:05 some places-- East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent-- they've had less than 1% of their average
09:10 October rainfall in the first nine days of the month. It's been exceptionally dry here,
09:16 but a very different story further north. If we look at the same chart, but this time
09:19 for Scotland, you can see we're close to the all-time record for this stage in October
09:25 for the highest amount of rain that we've currently seen. It's well above average for
09:29 this stage in the month. Like I said, some places have already seen more than their average
09:33 for the whole month, but well above average for this stage in the month and very close
09:38 to, not quite touching the record for the wettest point at this stage in October, but
09:44 really not that far off.
09:47 But what else do I have to show you? So now we need to look ahead. I've gone through what's
09:53 happened so far over the last few days, so the really wet weather and that very warm
09:58 weather. But let's have a look ahead to what we've got coming up. So starting off looking
10:02 at the pressure sequence. And if we run through, and at the moment we have a double frontal
10:06 structure across the north of the UK, and it's this that's particularly the second front,
10:11 which is bringing some heavy rain across parts of Scotland. In fact, I'm going to get rid
10:14 of the jet stream, put rainfall on instead. And I might even zoom into the UK just to
10:19 make this a little bit clearer.
10:22 And what you can see as we go through, if I just run it through, here we go. If we run
10:29 through, so that whole frontal system is pushing its way southwards. So we're going to see
10:32 some rain pushing into parts of Northern Ireland, Northern England as we go through tonight,
10:36 staying largely dry across the south until, if I just pause it here, what we have is this
10:43 front that's pushing its way southwards across parts of Scotland, then makes its way into
10:47 more central parts of the UK. And then we get a plume, another area of forcing coming
10:52 up from the southwest, and they interact. And that's why we're going to see some pretty
10:56 heavy rainfall totals. If I get rid of the fronts just for a second and play that through,
11:02 we're going to see some high rainfall totals building up initially across Wales. But then
11:06 as we go through the rest of the Wednesday, that's all going to filter its way eastwards.
11:10 And so we're going to see some further heavy rain across central southern parts of the
11:13 UK. If I just pause it there, this is midnight Thursday morning, so Wednesday night. And
11:18 you can see we're going to have some rain across more southern areas of the UK. A real
11:22 difference to what we had over the weekend, what we've had so far this month, to be honest,
11:28 where it's been so largely dry. In terms of totals that we are expecting, and here's an
11:33 interesting chart. This is a comparison between different models. So on the left-hand side,
11:38 we have the Met Office Global model. In the middle, we have the European Centre ECMWF.
11:43 And on the right-hand side, we have GFS, the American model. And what these charts are
11:47 showing are forecast 24-hour rainfall accumulations for this coming Wednesday, so tomorrow. And
11:54 what you can see is the Met Office model is highlighting some pretty high rainfall totals
11:59 across parts of Wales, into the Midlands, and even towards East Anglia as well. Interestingly,
12:04 ECMWF has a similar position a little bit further north with the heaviest rain perhaps
12:10 and not quite getting as high totals. Meanwhile, GFS is a little bit further south, if anything,
12:16 compared to two, but relatively good agreement in the fact that it's this central slice of
12:20 the UK that's likely to see the heaviest rain. Now, some of these totals, 40, 50 millimeters,
12:26 they're fairly similar to the rain that's happening over Scotland as we go through today,
12:30 through Tuesday. But because it's coming off the back of a very dry spell in the south,
12:35 a very different story for Scotland where it's coming off the back of a very wet period,
12:40 we're not really expecting the significant impacts in this area, even though it is going
12:45 to be a wet picture, a very wet day as we go through Wednesday, it shouldn't really
12:49 cause too many impacts because we've had so much dry weather recently. So all the catchments
12:53 everywhere should cope with it relatively well. But going back to then the pressure
12:59 pattern or not as the case is, but I'll put the pressure bars back on. And if we just
13:07 run through, let's go back to Wednesday. So then that frontal system tries to clear its
13:12 way southwards as we go through later Wednesday into Thursday. We'll see some outbreaks of
13:17 rain across southern areas as we go through Thursday, but a lot of dry weather too. And
13:22 then we get hit by two separate features. Another area of forcing comes up from the
13:27 south and brings some heavy rain to southern areas as we go towards the end of the week.
13:32 And also, if I just run through a little bit further, we get an area of low pressure towards
13:36 the north, and that's going to bring some wet and windy weather here. Doesn't look as
13:40 heavy as the rain across more southern parts, but we are likely to see a pretty messy picture
13:47 as we go through Friday and then that all clears through as we go into Saturday. So
13:53 then just a quick look at what we can expect on Friday. And as I mentioned, there's some
13:57 heavy rainfall across southern parts because of that system coming up from the southwest.
14:02 And this is a similar chart to the one I just showed you for Wednesday. But this time, instead
14:07 of looking at 24-hour rainfall totals, we're actually looking at 36-hour rainfall totals
14:11 from midday GMT on Thursday all the way to the end of Friday. And again, it's showing
14:17 – well, this time, unsurprisingly, because it's slightly further ahead, there's less
14:22 alignment between these models. And so, the Matt Office model is highlighting some pretty
14:26 intense rain, almost 60mm in some parts of the West Country, up in towards the Midlands,
14:31 towards East Anglia, that's where we've got the heaviest rain. ECMWF wants to have
14:36 the worst of the rain a little bit further north, so more affecting Wales. And as does
14:40 GFS, that takes it all a little bit further north as well. So, whilst the Matt Office
14:45 model usually is pretty strong and we often stick with it, I think at the moment, the
14:51 general agreement is that the worst of the rain is likely to be a little bit further
14:55 north than the Matt Office model, the one on the left wants it to be. So, probably going
15:00 to be more of an issue for Wales perhaps than southwest England. But we do need to keep
15:05 an eye on this. We will be updating things. We may need some warnings because we've got
15:09 that wet weather as we go through Wednesday and then another spell of wet weather as we
15:13 go through Friday. We may need to be looking at some warnings because of the heavy rain.
15:17 We could start to see some impacts there. But what – if I just go back to the forecast
15:24 then, and what I wanted to continue to show because this is the real change coming through
15:29 is as we go through Friday then, we see later that front that brought the heavy rain or
15:35 brings the heavy rain on Friday does clear away towards the south. And then we're under
15:40 the influence of this low pressure. It's going to bring some strong winds across northern
15:44 areas, particularly Scotland, so some gales there likely. But the bigger thing that I
15:48 think is worth noting is the wind direction that we're going to get across the UK. It's
15:53 a cold Arctic air and that's really going to lead to a real drop in our temperatures.
15:58 It's going to turn much colder as we go through into the weekend and it's really going to
16:03 feel colder too. Notice there will be some showers pushing through on this northerly
16:08 wind as well. There's an occlusion coming through so that will bring some showery rain
16:12 and some sleet or snows likely. With some cold air coming through I'd expect some sleet
16:17 or snow above higher ground of Scotland. We're talking 600 metres or so. Could be a little
16:21 bit lower than that across the far north of Scotland. And even to some lower levels we
16:26 could see some wet hail perhaps, so something a little bit wintry. That's mainly for Scotland.
16:30 I'm not really expecting the wintriness to push as far south as England just yet. But
16:37 what we will notice is a real change to much colder than it has been, especially compared
16:41 to over the weekend. Now one way that I can show you that is if we look at our maximum
16:47 temperatures. And I'm just going to pick some random places. Let's start off down in the
16:52 south. And what you can see, and if we go to East Anglia at the moment where temperatures
16:57 are still low, possibly mid-20s today. And then they are dipping down as we go through
17:02 Thursday. That's when the wet picture, we've got the heavy rain coming through on Friday
17:07 as well. So we're starting to see the change. But notice by the weekend, by Sunday, I've
17:11 moved over somewhere. Let's go back to over here. By Sunday we're into single figures.
17:19 These are our daytime highs. It possibly won't be quite as chilly as that, but it is going
17:23 to be markedly less, well, markedly colder than it has been of late. If you think over
17:28 the weekend just gone, we had highs of 24, 25, even 26 Celsius, whereas this coming weekend
17:35 the similar areas are only going to be just about scraping into double figures. It's going
17:39 to be 10 to 12 degrees colder this coming weekend than it was last weekend for some
17:44 places. So a real colder feel to things. We're kind of going from summer to winter in just
17:49 one week. The caveat to that worth noting, these temperatures aren't hugely below average
17:55 for the time of year, but we're just going from so far above to a little bit below average
17:59 for October. Also, if we look across Scotland, you can see the drop in temperatures is happening
18:04 that much quicker. So it's still quite warm. If we pick the central belt, for example,
18:09 quite relatively warm temperatures above average for the time of year through Tuesday, but
18:13 then turning colder from Wednesday onwards and a gradual drop in our temperatures as
18:17 that cold Arctic air continues to plunge its way in as we go through towards the weekend,
18:23 Saturday, Sunday in particular, that's when we're going to get our lowest temperatures
18:27 at the moment. I also want to show you the same idea, but with our minimum temperatures.
18:32 If I pick somewhere in Scotland, perhaps let's try and head as close to somewhere like Braemar
18:37 as I can, perhaps. Here we go. And you can see, yes, it's a mild night for well, so to
18:44 start off the day through Tuesday, but you can see why have I clicked the screen again?
18:49 Here we go. I've lost my negative failure, which I just want to get back. Here we go.
18:54 And you can see as we go through the weekend, minimum temperatures are also dropping off.
19:00 And so by the time that we get to the weekend, I think Saturday night into Sunday, Sunday
19:04 night into Monday as well, likely to be very cold. That's when we're likely to see temperatures
19:09 several degrees below freezing Saturday night, Sunday night. We could be looking at lows
19:13 around minus three, minus four Celsius. So pretty widespread frost. I think even this
19:19 coming night, Wednesday night, Thursday night, we're likely to have some cold nights across
19:22 northern areas. But that coldness or that cold won't have spread as far south until
19:27 we get towards the end of the week and the weekend. So a real drop in temperatures spreading
19:32 from that north from the north as that cold Arctic air plunges its way southwards as we
19:37 go through this week. Then if we go back to I don't think. Oh, then the other thing that
19:45 I wanted to just start back to with regards to a rainfall for Friday, like I mentioned
19:50 that we may be looking at some warning. So I just wanted to highlight the areas of greatest
19:55 concern because there are two kind of features with regards to the area of rain. So in this
20:00 area, the green area, the bigger area across much of central southern England and Wales,
20:06 that's where we're looking at five to 20 millimeters quite widely. So it is going to be a pretty
20:10 wet picture. Then, as I highlighted earlier, the greatest cause for concern is parts of
20:14 Wales, more East Anglia and southern parts of the Midlands and into northern parts of
20:19 West Country. That's where we have the greatest chance of the highest totals building up.
20:23 So 30 to 50 millimeters and six to nine hours, possibly even a bit more than that, 60 to
20:29 70. But I wanted to highlight just this black dashed hatched shaded area across more southern
20:35 counties. And it's in this area where there's actually the risk of some convection. So with
20:40 that, we have the risk of some intense showers building up. So intense downpours are possible.
20:46 So instead of the 30 to 50 over six to nine hours or 60 to 70 over like the whole day,
20:52 we're looking at the risk of 20 to 30 and just one to two hours. So it's intense rain
20:56 sure to lift, but it could be heavier when it comes. And with that, there's the risk
21:01 of thunder. You could throw some hail in there as well. It's not out of the question. So
21:06 what we have then across much of southern England into central England and Wales, it
21:10 is looking like it's on Friday. It's going to be a wet picture. The heaviest rains in
21:15 this blue area in terms of the highest totals at the end of the day. But in terms of the
21:20 most intense rain, there's the risk of those heavy downpours in these more southern counties,
21:25 that black shaded area as well. So I think I've covered the forecast for this week and
21:33 into the weekend. But if I just run through all the way to the end of the pattern, and
21:37 if we go through Saturday into Sunday, and what you can see is we get a bit of high pressure
21:44 building in. And so although we're going to have a lot of cold weather, and if I put rainfall
21:49 back on and get rid of the jet stream, although it is going to be quite cold, actually, the
21:54 forecast for this weekend is actually going to be largely dry. Yes, there'll be some showers
21:59 coming through, but most of the worst of the rain will really be toppling over the top
22:03 of that high pressure. And so for many, it's actually going to be largely dry, fine, crisp
22:09 almost for some of us with the risk of some frost, particularly for those northern areas.
22:13 And that high pressure continues as we go through into the beginning of next week. And
22:17 it's likely to dominate really, at least for the start of the week. And if I show you that
22:21 now, and if we get up this chart, and now this is ECMWF data looking at the forecast
22:29 for next week. On the right hand side, I have the model runs for next week still, but the
22:35 model runs that were taken on Saturday. In the middle, I have the model runs that were
22:38 taken on Sunday, and the model run on the left hand side, the model runs taken yesterday
22:43 on Monday, and they show quite a change in the story. On Saturday, when we were looking
22:48 at next week, now these show the anomaly compared to average for the time of year. And on the
22:54 top, we have our anomaly compared to the pressure anomaly. And in the bottom, we have our temperature
22:59 anomaly. And the greens indicate that low pressure, particularly towards the northwest
23:04 of the UK, when we use the Saturday model runs from ECMWF, showed that low pressure
23:10 was more likely or lower than average pressure was more likely, particularly towards the
23:13 northwest of the UK. So that would have brought some unsettled weather, southwesterlies. As
23:18 a result, when you look at the temperature anomaly, it looked like temperatures were
23:22 going to be a bit above average for the time of year. But as we've gone through Sunday's
23:26 model runs, starting to see a bit of a change. And then Monday's model run, the most recent,
23:33 was actually a huge change in story. By this point, this is indicating that we're going
23:38 to have higher than average pressure somewhere towards the east northeast of the UK as we
23:43 go through the whole of next week. I just showed you that we are likely to have high
23:46 pressure coming across as we go through this coming weekend. And then that's likely to
23:51 drift a little bit further east northeastwards towards Scandinavia as we go into next week.
23:55 So high pressure towards the northeast of the UK dominating, with the winds then coming
24:00 around this. And so we'll get a bit of a southeasterly, but it's going to be quite a chilly southeasterly
24:05 because of this cold air to the east northeast of the UK. As a result, although there could
24:11 be quite a bit of fine weather around because we should still be largely under the influence
24:15 of that high pressure, it is going to be quite chilly still as we go through next week. So
24:20 somewhat of a continuation of the picture that we'll have going into this weekend. I
24:24 think the cold weather will subside as we go through next week. But I just wanted to
24:29 highlight this to show the huge change in story from the low pressure dominating, warmer
24:35 than average, unsettled weather that ECMWF was highlighting just a few days ago, to now
24:41 going with the idea that high pressure is likely to still be in control, largely as
24:46 we look at the week as a whole. And with that, temperatures likely to remain a little bit
24:51 below average for the time of year. So that's a little look at what we can expect as we
24:58 go into next week. So I am expecting the high pressure to at least linger across the UK
25:03 through the first few days. With that, then the cold weather continues at least Monday,
25:07 Tuesday, possibly into Wednesday, before we'll see the high drifting away and becoming less
25:11 dominant. And that does allow then for something perhaps a bit more changeable and for something
25:16 milder as well. But what I am pretty confident of is that we're going to see some weather
25:21 systems pushing their way southwards as we go through this week. And they're bringing
25:26 some heavy rain at times, particularly there's some spells as we go through Wednesday and
25:31 then another spell as we go through Friday, particularly for the central southern parts
25:34 of the UK. And then with that, with that low pressure towards the northeast, we get that
25:38 cold Arctic air plunging its way southwards. And that's why we're going to see a real drop
25:43 in our temperatures as we go towards the weekend. So I hope that all made sense. I hope you
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