Met Office Morning Weather Forecast 21/09/24 - Cloud and drizzle in northeast
Risk of further thunderstorms across the south, with a yellow warning in place. Sunny and dry further north but with cloud and drizzle affecting eastern areas of Scotland and northeast England. Warm for many but cooler under the cloud in the northeast - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the morning of 21/09/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Amy Bokota.
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00:00Good morning, and welcome to your latest weather update from the Met Office. Plenty of sunshine
00:05around for many on this Saturday, but there will also be some thunderstorms in the mix
00:09as well. Looking at the bigger picture, the northern half of the UK, under the influence
00:13of a ridge of high pressure still, easily flows, so it's still going to be quite cloudy
00:17here down the east coast. But low pressure beginning to take dominance from the south,
00:21giving quite an unsettled picture across the southern half of the UK across the end of
00:25the weekend. Back to today though, we do have a thunderstorm
00:28warning in force, quite a large area covering parts of Wales, south west England and central
00:33southern England as well. It's a large area, but not everywhere we'll see a thunderstorm.
00:37It's the hit and miss nature of thunderstorms. One place could see torrential downpours,
00:42hail, gusty winds and just down the road, it could be a fine and sunny day. But this
00:47is the main area. This is where the risk of the thunderstorms developing will be.
00:52Back to this morning, so you can see on the graphics there already a scattering of those
00:55thundery showers around first thing. Further north though, still very much this east west
00:59split. We've got flow coming in off the North Sea, so we've got cloud, rain and drizzle
01:04and quite a breeze as well, particularly for parts of eastern Scotland. Brighter though
01:08across western Scotland through the day. Plenty of sunshine here and temperatures could get
01:13up to 20 degrees, noticeably different from the east coast where we do see that breeze.
01:18It's going to be at best into the mid teens. Further south though as well, you can see
01:22where we have the scattering of showers in between. There's plenty of sunshine around
01:26and where you do see that sunshine possibly up even to 25 degrees for parts of Kent and
01:31it will be feeling quite pleasant and in that sunshine. So very much it depends whether
01:36or not you get hit by one of those showers on Saturday. Lots of fine weather around in
01:40between those. Heading through the evening, those showers will continue and again could
01:46cause some travel impacts as we head through the evening and then we start to get a second
01:50system arriving from the south as we head in towards the early hours of Sunday. There
01:55is a warning in force for this area of rain as well and this one's slightly different
01:58from the one on Saturday. This is a rain warning as opposed to a thunderstorm warning and we'll
02:04be seeing more widespread cloud and more places will see rainfall as well. So we're looking
02:09for impacts from the rain falling onto the ground and we could see some spray and perhaps
02:13some difficult travelling conditions through Sunday as well. It will be fairly mild though
02:19to start the day on Sunday. We're going to see temperatures into the mid-teens for much
02:24of the UK and even in the far southeast. It's quite muggy and quite humid, perhaps even
02:28starting the day at 17 degrees. Further north though, parts of Western Scotland holding
02:33on to their crisp and bright mornings as well. So sunshine for Western Scotland but it will
02:40be in limited supply as we head through Sunday for the southern half of the UK. Plenty of
02:45cloud swirling around and we will start to see these winds picking up particularly across
02:49Western parts and we'll see heavy rain. Less in the way of thunderstorms but by the afternoon
02:53there could still be an isolated thunderstorm or two on Sunday as well. But further north
02:59across Western parts for Northern Ireland and Western Scotland there will be plenty
03:02of sunshine around mid or high teens and probably seeing the best of the weather and even parts
03:07of Eastern Scotland starting to see a little bit less in the way of cloud and could see
03:10a brighter day here too. There will still be some areas affected by that cloud coming
03:15in off the North Sea and here temperatures are best in 15 degrees or in the mid-teens
03:20and again not feeling too pleasant. Temperatures further south, mid or high teens or perhaps
03:25early 20s but the difference will be the extra cloud, more frequent rain so it's probably
03:30not going to be feeling as pleasant on Sunday and we'll be sort of noticing that wind starting
03:35to pick up as well. So fairly unsettled as we head through Sunday. That rain is going
03:40to continue right the way through the evening around the southern half of the UK. But if
03:44you do want to check out any more on any of those weather warnings please do check out
03:48our YouTube channel.