Dry with clear skies for many this evening and overnight, with light winds leading to a rural frost and the coldest night of the week. A few showers affecting eastern coastal areas and north Wales - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 12/09/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Annie Shuttleworth.
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00:00Good evening. There's a good chance of spotting the northern lights as far south as northern
00:04England overnight tonight, with clear skies developing quite widely across the UK. It
00:09will be a cold night, but this cold air is going to be replaced by Atlantic air as we
00:14head into Friday and into the weekend. High pressure set to dominate across the south
00:18for the foreseeable with further wet and windy weather across more north-western areas. But
00:24for the time being, we've still got this Arctic air across the UK, so that's brought that
00:29chilly feel recently. So it will be another very cold night, probably the coldest night
00:33of the week so far to come tonight. But for many of us, it will be a dry and clear night.
00:39Still a few showers, though, across eastern areas of England in particular, as well as
00:42parts of north Wales overnight. But for many of us, clear skies will allow those temperatures
00:47to fall away quite quickly this evening. We could be down as low as around minus three
00:52or four in parts of rural Scotland, especially where we've seen any snow over the past few
00:57days. Further south, rurally around minus one or two, but many towns and cities well
01:01above zero. So it's just rurally where we've got the risk of a potential frost first thing.
01:06There will be quite a lot of sunshine around through Friday morning. The sunshine is definitely
01:10going to be longer lived and it will feel warmer as well through Friday. We've got lighter
01:15winds as well as longer lived sunshine through Friday. But notice across parts of Northern
01:20Ireland, Western Scotland, the sunshine is turning a little hazier as we head into the
01:23afternoon. That's ahead of this spell of wet weather that will move in through Saturday.
01:30But with westerly winds and more in the way of sunshine, temperatures will climb a little
01:34bit higher than they have done lately. 15 or 14 degrees quite widely. Highs of 17 degrees
01:39in the south and east is still below average, but it's definitely warmer than it has been
01:43for the past few days. But as I said, this wet weather will become more dominant across
01:48northwestern areas, particularly across western Scotland, and that's set to sink southwards
01:52into some northern areas of England as we head into Saturday evening as well. But a
01:57spell of wet and quite windy weather will develop, particularly across northwestern
02:01Scotland through Friday night. Further south, though, another clear and fairly cold night.
02:06Not quite as cold as tonight, but still a fairly chilly one with a chance of a rural
02:11frost quite locally, but much milder where we see the winds pick up and that cloud push
02:16in across parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland. And that wet weather is set to persist through
02:21a lot of Saturday across Northern Ireland and Scotland. The heaviest rain will be restricted
02:25to far northwestern areas and it will stay dry with high pressure holding on across more
02:30southern areas. So much of England and Wales will see a fairly fine day and it will be
02:34another even warmer day, quite widely 17 or 18 degrees. Temperatures coming quite close
02:40to the high teens, if not low 20s, so much closer to where they should be for the time
02:44of year. As I said, that wet weather will sink further south into parts of northern
02:49England as we head into Sunday, but it is set to stay dry across the south for the foreseeable.
02:54But you can find out more details on that on your full weekend forecast with Alex Deakin
02:58on YouTube. Bye bye.