24 October - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.
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00:00Hi there, blue skies for some this afternoon but for many skies will look a little more
00:05like this as the cloud slowly builds towards the west ahead of this frontal system which
00:11is slowing down. It was a cold front but now a circulation is forming and that slows it
00:16down and turns the cold front into a warm front on this part as it pushes back west
00:22for a time as well. And along that area as the circulation develops the rain will turn
00:27heavy but actually it avoids most of the UK. Throughout the afternoon just some spells
00:32of mostly light to moderate rain for the Outer Hebrides for example, a few spots in the
00:36west where the cloud is thick enough but in the east that's where we see the best of
00:40the sunshine. Eastern England temperatures of 16 to 18 Celsius with a mild southerly
00:46airflow for many. 16, 17 also possible for some sheltered parts of northern Scotland
00:52as the air dries out and warms up over its passage across the hills. Into the evening
00:58and it slowly starts to turn wetter. Showers at first for the southwest and Wales turning
01:04to longer spells of rain and then Northern Ireland sees those spells of rain mostly after
01:09midnight. Some heavy rain at times can cause some issues in one or two spots by dawn but
01:15in the east it stays dry albeit increasingly gloomy as the cloud thickens and then lowers
01:21some hill fog and mist about first thing across central and eastern parts of the country.
01:25Some sunshine for eastern Scotland there but actually for many parts it's grey skies from
01:30the word go. Outbreaks of rain fizzling away across Northern Ireland and the rain tending
01:35to progress north-eastwards albeit slowly across Wales, the Midlands as well. Some heavy
01:41showers potentially in the southeast by the afternoon. Also some blustery showers as the
01:45wind picks up in the southwest and west Wales but with some brighter spells in between.
01:50Not quite as mild but still temperatures around the mid-teens for many. Some cloud
01:55breaks for western Scotland and increasingly so in the south as cloud and patchy rain moves
02:01its way northwards on Friday night. And by the start of Saturday that means there will
02:05be some mist and fog across central and southern parts of the country but it will clear through
02:10the morning. We'll still see some blustery showers in the far southwest but the main
02:15area of rain, well that returns to western Scotland again relatively slowly through the
02:22afternoon as well as parts of Northern Ireland. Some sunshine elsewhere so a fine day for
02:26many with highs of 14 or 15 Celsius and then further rain or showers into Sunday especially
02:33once again in the northwest.