Wednesday morning forecast 14/04/2021

14th April - National weather forecast

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00:00Hi there and welcome to the latest from the Met Office. A widespread frost and some fog

00:05patches to wake up to on Wednesday. They give way to sunny spells and there will be fewer

00:09showers compared to the last few days. There will still be some showers going through Tuesday

00:15night especially for parts of northern England right through until the early hours and a

00:19legacy of cloud here, some patchy cloud elsewhere and that will complicate things as far as

00:24a frost is concerned. I think a patchy frost through central and northern parts of England

00:29but elsewhere under long clear spells. What a widespread frost. Temperatures as low as

00:34minus three or minus four for parts of Wales into northern Ireland and down to minus six

00:38or minus seven for sheltered glens of Scotland. We've still got the cold air in place across

00:44the UK. That was brought down from the Arctic at the end of last week. It's now lingering

00:50thanks to this area of high pressure but the high pressure means that generally winds at

00:54the surface are light but there is some activity to do with the jet stream, a little filament

00:59there and perhaps amping up the cloud and shower activity for southwestern areas during

01:04Wednesday. That is once we clear any early fog because there will be some fog patches

01:08for southwest England, Wales and northern Ireland. Quite quickly they disappear. The

01:11cloud lifts and it will bubble up once again for many places. A few showers expected towards

01:17southwest Scotland, northwest England as well as northern Ireland but the main shower activity

01:22on Wednesday will be Wales as well as southern and southwest England where again the odd

01:27sharp shower is possible but there will be fewer showers compared to recent days. They'll

01:32be hit and miss even where they do occur. Some places will stay dry and to the north

01:36and the east that's where the longest spells of sunshine are expected and with light winds

01:41despite the cool air in place and that chilly start, well it's going to feel reasonably

01:47warm with the increasing strength of the sun. We're talking about single figures, high single

01:53figures towards the east and around western areas 11 to 13 Celsius. Later on Wednesday

02:01any showers quite quickly die down and the cloud disappears as well so I think more widely

02:07a clear night to come on Wednesday night into Thursday and therefore a more widespread frost

02:14with temperatures perhaps a little lower compared to the previous night. Main towns and cities

02:18again zero to minus two Celsius but in rural parts expected to get down to minus five to

02:25minus eight degrees. A cold start then on Thursday with that widespread frost but widely

02:32sunny skies through much of the morning. Again the cloud will get going, this time in a slightly

02:36different place. We'll see the biggest shower clouds developing across east Anglia and the

02:40southeast. Again these showers will be hit and miss. Further west that's where the longest

02:45spells of sunshine will be and mostly dry under the sunny skies and with light winds

02:52it will feel warm enough. 11 to 13 Celsius fairly widely. I think Northern Ireland the

02:57warm spot on Thursday with highs of 14 Celsius.