A cold but bright start for many, with persistent northerly winds. Wintry showers continuing for much of the north and northwest. In the south, feeling more pleasant in the sunshine and lighter winds. Under areas of clear skies, temperatures falling quickly overnight, widely below freezing. Into Saturday morning, cloud thickening in the west as Storm Bert approaches, bringing strong winds and rain, with some outbreaks of snow over higher ground. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 22/11/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Adian McGivern.
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00:00Hi there. For many of us it's a bright Friday but it is cold out there and there is some
00:05ice around. That's a head of storm Bert expected to bring disruption from snow, rain and wind
00:12for the first part of this weekend in particular. But Friday is relatively quiet compared with
00:18recent days and upcoming days. We've got northerly winds still, we've got a lot of ice particularly
00:23where we've had sleet and snow during the last few days and there will be further sleety
00:27or snowy showers coming into the north and north-west but not as many as we've seen recently.
00:33And away from the showers actually plenty of crisp November sunshine with temperatures
00:36of 7 degrees in the south feeling a little more pleasant with lighter winds as well.
00:43But under those clear skies temperatures will fall quickly overnight after dark, widely
00:47below freezing and significantly below freezing for Scotland and parts of northern and eastern
00:52England. Further west cloud thickens, the wind picks up and outbreaks of rain move
00:57in. As that happens we'll see some snow for a time across parts of northern Ireland especially
01:01over higher parts likewise for mid and north Wales. You can see the temperature contrast
01:0511 degrees at this stage in Cornwall just above freezing or below for the east of the
01:12UK and as a result well quite quickly the snow turns to rain for northern Ireland and
01:18Wales but a more significant spell of snow develops across northern England and much
01:23of Scotland. Now we're expecting during Saturday morning that snow to accumulate thick and
01:28fast accompanied by strong winds. There will be blizzards over the hills and drifting of
01:33the snow as well as power line accumulations so the risk of interruptions to power supplies.
01:39In other words treacherous conditions for northern England and Scotland and in terms
01:43of accumulations well in just a space of a few hours, 5 to 10 centimetres at lower
01:48levels especially around the Vale of York and also for the Central Belt and as much
01:52as 20 to 40 centimetres over hills so if you've got travel plans I would urge you to think
01:59again because it really is going to be horrendous for travelling across parts of Scotland and
02:04northern England and there could be significant impacts. But we then see the mild air push
02:11in and during the afternoon the snow turns back to rain and for many northern parts of
02:16the UK very quickly temperatures rise and we've got this rapid thaw setting in. That
02:21combined with the heavy rain across many northern and western parts of the country we'll see
02:26the risk of flooding. Although it's been a dry November so far when we're talking about
02:31rainfall accumulations of 40 millimetres widely and more than 100 millimetres for western
02:36hills that could cause some localised flooding and some impacts on the roads as well by the
02:42end of Saturday. But you can see the wind is also strong with wind gusts of 60 even
02:4870 miles an hour for exposed coasts and hills so all in all a very lively day of weather
02:54and I would recommend that you pay close attention to the latest forecasts and warnings and of
03:01course travel disruption would be worth factoring into any plans for the weekend. It is turning
03:10much milder with temperatures in the mid-teens later Saturday and into Sunday but staying
03:17blustery on Sunday with further rain at times before something a little quieter at the start
03:22of next week. We'll keep you updated right here on the Met Office. We'll have much more
03:27detailed updates in the Weather Studio Live which of course we do on our YouTube channel
03:31at 12.15 every Friday so join us for that if you can. It's your opportunity to ask us
03:36questions about the upcoming weather. Bye bye.