12 May - National weather forecast presented by Clare Nasir.
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00:00Hello there, welcome to your weather update from the Met Office. We have some heavy rain
00:04around over the next 48 hours which will be slow moving and it will cause some impacts
00:09in terms of flooding. The reason why an area of low pressure tracks across the country
00:14is fairly slow moving itself with some stronger winds associated with it. So most places seeing
00:19some rain but across some parts we could see in excess of 100 millimetres particularly
00:25northern parts of Wales over the higher ground, northwest England. For the time being if you
00:29are travelling you may run into a thunderstorm, northern Ireland, Wales, central southern
00:33England, the south east but they will tend to fade away as this rain really makes its
00:38mark through the latter part of Tuesday and into the early hours of Wednesday. Now notice
00:42some bright echoes representing some heavy pulses and that really will be the name of
00:47the game through Wednesday as well. So rain warning covering this zone here, much of England
00:52and Wales. Further north, higher along this east coast, northeast England, inland it's
00:57dry but some showery bursts extending from western Scotland down towards northern Ireland
01:02through the first part of Wednesday morning. It's a relatively mild start to the day but
01:06always feeling cool through Wednesday under this cloud and rain and for some you'll see
01:11rain right the way through the day. It's slowly moving its way northwards through the first
01:16part of Wednesday morning but if you are travelling across England and Wales you may run into
01:20some problems with surface water issues. Certainly rivers will become swollen as the rain persists
01:25across Wales, northern parts of England and eventually southern Scotland seeing that rain.
01:30Now towards the north of that, that low cloud will tend to thin at times, you may get some
01:35dry weather before this rain pivots round with the centre of the low across the North
01:39Sea bringing with it some heavy pulses through the latter part of Wednesday, pushing towards
01:44western Scotland, clipping northern Ireland and that rain persisting across the west midlands
01:49Wales as well as north west England. Now through Wednesday evening and overnight that rain
01:54continues. Any showers in the south which have developed through the day will linger
01:57on here as well with the risk of thunder and we could see some heavy downpours but notice
02:02across northern Scotland some high rainfall totals with this slow moving rain as it continues
02:08to circulate round the centre of the low and with that a wet end to the night particularly
02:13across the north as well as the west pushing down towards the midlands as well. A relatively
02:17mild start to Thursday yet again but for many it's going to be a wet one. So you can see
02:22where the rain is, low cloud at that, further south you'll see some drier skies but yet
02:27again one or two showers could develop through the day. Winds will be strong particularly
02:32across this western side of the UK and pushing up towards eastern parts of Scotland where
02:37we'll see an onshore breeze and feeling cool here. The rain turns more showery through
02:41Thursday afternoon but these rain warnings across central, eastern and southern parts
02:45of Scotland extend until 6pm on Thursday. Through Friday we'll see those showers fade
02:51away, it will turn a bit warmer into the weekend and then the risk of further showers
02:55on Sunday. I'll see you later.