Some sunny spells across central and eastern areas, but cloudier in the west with wet weather sweeping eastwards later.
Very unsettled weather is arriving with an area of low pressure to the north of the UK, bringing wet and windy weather across the country.
Very unsettled weather is arriving with an area of low pressure to the north of the UK, bringing wet and windy weather across the country.
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00:00Hello, very good day to you. There's going to be quite a lot of weather to come as we
00:04go through the rest of this week. Earlier on today there was a ridge of high pressure
00:08across us so it was relatively quiet for a time but if we look at the jet stream it's
00:13very strong, very active and it's going to push across the UK and within the jet we could
00:17see speeds of around 250 miles per hour so it's no real surprise that we're going to
00:22see some very unsettled weather arriving. Initially an area of low pressure that's going
00:27to track somewhere to the north of the UK as we go through the end of today and overnight
00:31into tomorrow bringing some very wet and windy weather to many parts for a time. Then another
00:36system comes through on Thursday again bringing some heavy rain and strong winds. Ridge of
00:41high pressure on Friday may quieten things down for a period of time but for another
00:46feature arrives on Saturday. This could be a particularly deep area of low pressure.
00:50Still some uncertainty about how deep it's going to be, how intense and also the exact
00:56track how north or south it's going to push and so as a result uncertainty about the impacts
01:01but worth keeping up to date on this one because it could cause some problems. However if we
01:06go back to this afternoon some glimmers of sunshine, pretty weak sunshine at this time
01:10of year but nonetheless some of us seeing some bright blue skies particularly towards
01:13central eastern areas. Further west the cloud will be building and some wet and windy weather
01:19will be sweeping its way in initially across parts of Northern Ireland but later on as
01:23we go through the afternoon into western parts of Scotland and some outbreaks pushing
01:27into the far west of England and Wales as well. Staying drier towards the east but here
01:31it is going to be pretty chilly, temperatures struggling mid single figures in some places.
01:37Further west with the cloud, the rain, the wind we are going to see some milder air so
01:40temperatures are lifting a little bit here. Now as we go through this evening and overnight
01:45the heaviest rain is going to push its way across many parts of Scotland and perhaps
01:49the far north of England too. It should rattle through relatively quickly but nonetheless
01:53we could see totals over higher ground building up around 30-40mm perhaps. Also some very
01:58strong winds towards the north west of Scotland, gusts of around 65-70 perhaps a bit stronger
02:04than that in some exposed spots. Further south across England and Wales the rain may actually
02:09take a little bit longer to push its way through, perhaps won't be quite as intense as further
02:14north but nonetheless again we could see some high rainfall totals building up overnight.
02:19Again over perhaps the Brecon Beacons, Dartmoor, other high ground for example we could also
02:24see 30-40mm and with the ground pretty saturated after the heavy rain we had towards the end
02:29of November we could see some localised issues. The rain clinging on in the south east as
02:34we head towards or through the early hours of tomorrow morning and that rain also is
02:39going to do something quite interesting with our temperatures. A chilly start to the night
02:43for some of us but as that rain pushes its way in many of us are going to see our temperatures
02:47lifting through the night so a relatively mild start for many of us first thing tomorrow
02:52morning. That rain in the south east though through tomorrow will clear away quite quickly
02:56and then we are going to have something a bit drier. Yes some showery outbreaks coming
03:00in from the west but many places having some drier and perhaps brighter weather for a time
03:05before that next system that I mentioned earlier comes through as we go through Thursday afternoon
03:11and this is likely to bring some heavy bursts of rain, a bit more or less widespread compared
03:17to the feature coming through this evening and overnight but where we see the rain it
03:21could be pretty heavy and with the ground being very saturated after the heavy rain
03:26just before it this could cause some issues. So again we could see some problems, some
03:30localised flooding where we see this heavy rain arriving. We are going to see our temperatures
03:35a little bit above average for the time of year as we go through tomorrow and the winds
03:40strengthening as well so another warning in force across parts of northern England
03:45into Northern Ireland as well due to the nature of this band of showery rain that's pushing
03:51its way through. We could have some very strong gusts and that could cause some problems.
03:55As we go through later on this week and yes Friday does look like a quieter date for many
04:00of us but then there's the potential for some very heavy rain and some strong winds as we
04:04go into the weekend so definitely worth keeping up to date with that one and then fairly strong
04:10signs of a more settled spell as we go towards the beginning of next week. We will of course
04:15be keeping you up to date with everything as we go through the next couple of days but
04:18you'll definitely want to check out the 10 day trend with Anna later on. Bye bye.