Tuesday afternoon forecast 16/08/22

16 August - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.

Transcript

00:00Hello. Not everyone will see thunderstorms over the next couple of days, but where they

00:04do occur, just as we saw yesterday, they will bring some serious impacts. You can see the

00:10speckled nature in these storms as they form across parts of England and Wales during the

00:15rest of Tuesday. I think it's Yorkshire southwards where we're likely to see those heavy showers,

00:20torrential rain in places, hail, lightning and some surface water flooding of course,

00:26heavy rain falling onto dry ground. Away from the showers, there will be some brighter interludes

00:33but a lot of cloud cover and temperatures much lower compared to recent days, even in

00:39the south-east, 26, possibly 27 Celsius and certainly a fresher feel. For northern England,

00:44Scotland and Northern Ireland, mostly dry here. Still some outbreaks of rain for the

00:49north and central parts of Scotland, north-east England, but actually it's a drying up process.

00:54There is some clearer air coming along for the north of Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland

00:59later. It's further south where all the action is happening and across the Midlands, parts

01:04of mid and south Wales, south-west England, that's where the threat remains overnight

01:09of further heavy downpours and thundery rain. One or two showers elsewhere as well. A warm

01:16night to come, not as warm as previous nights, but still 15 or 16 Celsius in the south, whilst

01:21it's much more comfortable for sleeping I think for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern

01:25England. Clear spells and temperatures in places dipping into the single figures. Now

01:30we start off Tuesday with the north-west-south split across the UK. High pressure ridging

01:36into Scotland, Northern Ireland will bring a fine day here, but still these weather fronts,

01:41still this low pressure in the south bringing some heavy rain. Some prolonged rain potentially

01:45across parts of the Midlands into south Wales, south-west England first thing. And then further

01:50thundery showers break out. And the focus I think by Wednesday afternoon will be across

01:55parts of East Anglia into the far south-east of England, where slow moving torrential downpours,

02:01some really significant amounts of rain in a short spell of time. Yeah, we need rain

02:05in that part of the world, but not that much in just a few hours. So that could cause some

02:11issues and lightning and hail additional hazards as well. Temperatures really dropping off

02:17where we see that happen. But elsewhere actually it's a fine day for Scotland, Northern Ireland,

02:23Northern England, sunny spells and increasingly for north and west Wales. We'll see that sunshine

02:27making an appearance. The drier air to the north-west is drifting its way southwards.

02:34Temperatures at or slightly below average in the north and not far from average in the

02:38south. So this cooling off process is taking place at the moment. Any showers where they

02:44do occur could last well into the evening in the south-east. But otherwise for most

02:48it's a dry night to come. Some rain making an appearance there into the west of Scotland,

02:53parts of western Northern Ireland by the end of the day. And then we're back to more typical

03:00mixed weather for the UK, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Rain at times from the west, some

03:06showers in between, but also some sunshine.