Rain and blustery winds move across Northern Ireland, Scotland, and northern England, especially along western coasts move northwards overnight and into Thursday morning, heavy in places. Some showery rain across parts of Wales, before the band of rain moves in from the west overnight and into the morning. Elsewhere will remain fairly dry with the occasional shower. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 21/08/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Clare Nasir.
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00:00Hello there, welcome to your Wednesday evening weather update from the Met Office.
00:04Wind and rain warnings through Wednesday night and into Thursday, all courtesy of an area of
00:09low pressure sitting across Iceland. You can see this weather front here, slow moving,
00:14moving across more northern and western areas. Now this rain warning for western Scotland,
00:18we could see up to around 100 millimetres, particularly over the higher ground into
00:22Thursday, and it's gusty central belt southwards, a wind warning here as well as the northwest of
00:26Wales. Gusts along the coastline could reach 50 miles an hour, so expect some high waves.
00:31This cold front will be slow moving down towards the southeast, so through Thursday,
00:35a legacy of clouds and some patchy rain here. Elsewhere, a mix of cloud and sun and a few
00:39showers as the brunt of the strongest winds clear towards the far north of Scotland.
00:45Now let's backtrack to Wednesday evening and look at the detail. So bright echoes representing some
00:51intense bursts of rain across western Scotland. Northern Ireland seeing perhaps a little bit of
00:56a clearance for a time through evening before this rain returns to the province through into
01:02night time. The rain pushes ever northwards across Shetland, Orkney, eastern Scotland,
01:07and then this is the cold front here you saw on the synoptic chart. It's pushing ever southwards.
01:13Winds will pick up through the early hours of the morning across the Irish sea coast,
01:16and it's still blustery into tomorrow morning across western Scotland. Now for the Midlands,
01:21east Wales, southwards, you'll see a breezy night and also a mostly dry one with more in the way
01:27of cloud here. Temperatures holding around 16 Celsius, but a wet start to the day for northern
01:31England, west Wales, much of Scotland. Northern Ireland seeing that rain clear first thing,
01:36and then the sun will come out. Sunshine also for western Scotland. As you see that rain sliding
01:41down towards the Midlands, east Wales, Lincolnshire through around mid-morning into the afternoon.
01:47So through the afternoon, brightening skies on the back edge of this rain band, and it's going to
01:53be mostly patchy through the latter part of the day. Still windy across the far north of Scotland.
01:58We lose the winds elsewhere, it's a bit breezy even, so that bright weather ends the day. A
02:03lovely end for many areas, and even down towards the southeast you should see some fine weather
02:08before the sun sets. Here are your temperatures then. Up to possibly 18 for the central belt,
02:1417 for Belfast. Now for Cardiff, 19, 20, down towards the southeast with a bit of a breeze to
02:20end the day, 21 degrees Celsius. So that's the picture on Thursday. Here's that next system
02:27coming in into Friday. Again it's going to be windy with some wet weather, and then it clears.
02:32We could see a trailing front towards the southeast on Saturday, again with some outbreaks of rain,
02:37and then showers never too far away into the weekend. But notice a ridge trying to push in
02:42from the south, and what that means. There will be some fine weather around. More details about
02:47that on our 10-day trend issued on Wednesday today. So let's take a look at the detail through
02:53Thursday evening. Here's that band of cloud and rain moving in. Again we'll like to see some heavy
02:59pulses. The distribution of the rain is further south this time, and there was strong winds,
03:04particularly for the West Country, Irish Sea Coast, Wales, and that rain could be heavy at times. But
03:08we hang on to some drier, brighter weather towards the far northwest of Scotland. Through the
03:12afternoon the rain clears to allow some sunshine to come through, and also a scattering of showers.
03:17Now come Saturday, watch out for some stronger winds towards the northwest of Scotland.
03:22Again we could see a bit more cloud towards eastern counties with the odd spot or two of rain.
03:26Elsewhere, never too far away from a few showers. I'll see you later.