Met Office Evening Weather Forecast 21/12/23 – Winds easing, with showers and snow
Wind will tend to easy through the course of this evening. However, showery for northwestern parts of the UK. Chance of snow in the north, but remaining milder in the southwest. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 21/12/23. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.
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00:00 Hello, thank you for joining me for your latest Met Office weather update. It is
00:04 going to be a bit of a wet picture for many of us as we go through Thursday
00:07 evening overnight into Friday and still a blustery one, although the strongest
00:12 winds from earlier on in the day have eased. That's because the deep area of
00:15 low pressure that was named Stormpere by the Danish Met Service has now drifted
00:20 away towards the east, but tightly packed isobars indicating that it is still a
00:25 blustery windy picture as we go through the rest of Thursday and into Friday.
00:29 Notice as well we have some cold air towards the far northeast of the UK,
00:34 however elsewhere we're generally under that milder air. As we go through
00:38 Thursday evening then, some clear skies to start across eastern parts in
00:41 particular, but turning increasingly cloudy from the west through the night
00:45 as outbreaks of rain push their way in. We are likely to see some sleet or snow
00:49 over modest higher ground of Scotland and also for Shetland too, here a bit of
00:53 an ice risk as we go into Friday and with that snow and those strong winds we
00:59 could have some blizzard conditions as well. Like I said it is a mild story for
01:04 much of the UK, especially towards the south-southwest. Here some places will
01:08 stay in double figures through the night, a much chillier story though across the
01:12 far northeast. Here some places will dip below freezing. As we look through Friday
01:16 itself then, a mostly cloudy day for many of us. There will be further outbreaks of
01:21 rain, some of them could be a little bit heavy at times and I am expecting a
01:25 bit more sleet or snow across parts of Scotland. We could start to see some
01:29 accumulations building up. Towards the southwest here a drier picture, a few
01:34 spots of rain possible, but also some bright or perhaps even sunny skies
01:38 developing as we go through the afternoon. Temperatures in the south
01:42 ranging from highs around 10 to 12 Celsius, a little bit lower than this
01:46 further north and in fact across parts of northeast Scotland, temperatures will
01:50 be suppressed into just mid single figures and all the time, although the
01:54 winds on Friday won't be quite as strong as on Thursday. It is going to be windy
01:58 and blustery and so that will make it feel colder than these temperatures
02:02 suggest. As we go through the evening and overnight on Friday, we see a spell of
02:07 more persistent rain pushing initially across western parts of Scotland, but
02:10 then feeding across much of Scotland and into parts of northern England, perhaps
02:14 Northern Ireland too, through the early hours of Saturday morning. Likely to see
02:18 some snow, particularly on the leading edge of this, so we could again see some
02:22 accumulations building up and again an ice risk, which is why we do have a
02:26 warning in force, but it's across western parts where we're really going to see
02:29 some totals building up. Further south and it's a mostly dry night, but quite a
02:34 cloudy one and we still have those blustery winds, so again temperatures
02:37 aren't going to drop much. Many places holding up in high single figures or
02:41 double digits in a few spots, but again some frost is likely across the far
02:46 northeast of Scotland. As we go through Saturday, a wet start across much of
02:51 Scotland and some rain across northern England, Northern Ireland for a
02:54 time. Like I said, the heaviest rain likely across western Scotland and this
02:59 combined with the fact that we could have some snow melt means there may be
03:02 some issues due to the amount of water we see there. A drier story further south, a
03:07 few spots of rain possible, but quite a cloudy picture here too. Temperatures,
03:11 well they're going to be near or a little bit above average for the time of
03:14 year. Highs around 11 or 12 Celsius for most places. Still a windy theme to
03:19 things though, so that will make it feel a little bit chillier than these
03:22 temperatures may suggest and a bit chillier still towards the northeast.
03:25 That colder air I highlighted at the start, not going anywhere particularly
03:29 fast. As we go through into Christmas Eve then, we are going to see that rain
03:33 across northern parts continuing for a time, but then this waving frontal system
03:38 gradually makes its way southwards. So bringing outbreaks of rain across more
03:41 central areas as we go through Christmas Eve and then gradually clearing away
03:46 towards the south southeast as we go through Christmas Day itself. I
03:50 emphasize gradually because it could take quite a while to clear through and
03:53 so it's possible that particularly southeastern parts might have a largely
03:58 wet day with the rain not clearing until well into the evening. Further north
04:01 there are likely to be some blustery showers around and some of these could
04:04 be wintry, so it may be that we have a technically at least a white Christmas
04:09 across some parts of Scotland. Anyway we will have more information about the
04:13 forecast through the festive period across our YouTube channel, our website
04:16 and our app. I'll see you later, bye bye.