Rain pushing west to east through Thursday afternoon, heavy in places. Rain will be accompanied by some strong winds, especially in coastal areas, but it will also be milder than in previous days. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 07/12/23. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Annie Shuttleworth.
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00:00 Hello, welcome to the latest from the Met Office. We're in for a rather soggy and windy
00:04 few days across the UK and that's because low pressure is in charge. At the moment we've
00:10 got this smaller area of low pressure sat to the north west of Ireland. That's going
00:15 to be swinging these weather fronts across the UK through the course of Thursday and
00:19 Friday too. And then by Saturday we see this larger area of low pressure. It's further
00:24 away from the UK but it's still going to be extending its influence by pushing this weather
00:28 front down from the south west to bring another spell of wet and windy weather for the weekend.
00:34 The thing with all of these weather fronts though is that they're coming in from the
00:37 west and that means that rainfall will continue to come in from the west so rainfall totals
00:43 will likely start to build up. There's a number of rain warnings in force throughout the course
00:47 of Thursday. Many areas across the south west will see heavy rain but also across parts
00:53 of Cumbria and Scotland, snow melt will add to the heavy rain bringing a risk of flooding.
00:59 There'll likely be some travel disruptions and delays to trains, potentially flights
01:04 as well as water on the road. So do take care if you're travelling throughout the day and
01:08 into the evening. So wherever you are it's likely to be a cloudy, damp and pretty breezy
01:13 day. Winds will be particularly strong across the south west through the afternoon but these
01:19 should lighten off a little bit by the evening. With that south westerly breeze temperatures
01:24 are on the rise as well. In the far south west we'll be up to 12 or 13 degrees but it's
01:29 going to be rather cloudy and damp so you probably won't feel the benefit of the increase
01:34 in our temperatures. The rain then pushes up to the north east throughout the evening.
01:38 It does linger for longer across the north east of Scotland so there's a rain warning
01:41 in force into the evening for here. And then we see a slightly drier interlude which will
01:48 allow some mist and fog to develop across southern counties as well as some low cloud
01:52 across the far east coast. However further west we return to that more unsettled picture.
01:59 With the mild air still in charge it's going to be another mild night, a mild night than
02:04 last night with very little frost expected at all. So a much milder start to the day
02:09 on Friday. And Friday by and large will be another unsettled one. There won't be quite
02:13 as much rain as we're expecting throughout Thursday but in western areas you're likely
02:18 to see fairly frequent heavy downpours. They'll also be quite gusty too with a risk of thunderstorms
02:24 particularly across the south west. In the south east not many of the showers will reach
02:29 that far. That means it will be a little bit drier through the day. There's also going
02:33 to be some sunshine. Temperatures climbing to around 10 or 11 degrees here but still
02:37 it will be a little bit breezy but certainly a better day than today, tomorrow. And then
02:44 Friday evening is when showers continue to stream in across north western areas but in
02:49 the south we start to see a little bump in the pressure pattern which will diminish the
02:54 shower risk. So it will be a drier evening across south western areas for a time. However
03:00 the weekend as I said we're set to see that next frontal system coming in and you can
03:04 see it here this area of rain so it will cloud over through the first part of the night and
03:09 there's some further heavy rain expected for Saturday. If you'd like more details on your
03:13 weekend forecast check out our latest on YouTube. I'll see you later.
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