24 December - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern
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00:00Hi there. During the last 24 hours we've seen a warm front to bring a lot of cloud, but
00:05also much, much milder weather in time for Christmas. So we're now in the weather pattern
00:11we've been talking about for a while that is going to affect the whole of the UK for
00:16Christmas Day and Christmas Eve. It's just going to stay cloudy, a lot of low cloud covering
00:22the hills of the west, misty around coasts, drizzle here and there, particularly for northwest
00:27England and more especially western Scotland where the rain will be persistent through
00:30the rest of the day with a strengthening southwesterly wind. But with all of this cloud coming from
00:36the Atlantic it is going to be a remarkably mild Christmas Eve. Widely 13 Celsius, could
00:42see 14, perhaps 15 degrees, somewhere like northeast Wales, given the wind will be warming
00:48up and drying out over the hills as it crosses the country. There will be some cloud breaks
00:53here and there, Midlands for example, northeast England, northeast Scotland, possible brighter
00:59spells but on the whole it's a grey and gloomy Christmas Eve and little change then as we
01:04go into Christmas Day. So it's going to stay cloudy overnight, again one or two cloud breaks
01:10across central and eastern parts, they'll be fleeting. Most places will stay cloudy
01:15with a lot of low cloud covering the hills of the west, bringing some bits and pieces
01:19of drizzle and more persistent rain into northwest Scotland. Christmas Day doesn't
01:23start off quite as mild as Christmas Eve, in fact on the whole the day will be about
01:28a degree or two less mild compared with Christmas Eve but it's a similar sort of theme with
01:35southwesterly winds, strong winds for the north and northwest of Scotland, 40-50 mph
01:41wind gusts and continuing to stay wet in the northwest of Scotland. Elsewhere it's patchy
01:47drizzle over hills and coasts of the west but mostly dry elsewhere and with lighter
01:52winds in the south and relatively mild winds it's not going to be a bad afternoon for getting
01:57out for a walk, might not be the crisp winter's day that a lot of people appreciate on Christmas
02:02Day but at least it will be mostly dry and settled, the weather shouldn't cause too many
02:07problems. 11-12 Celsius across the board so yeah, another mild Christmas Day, this sort
02:14of weather becoming increasingly traditional at Christmas time I think in the UK but as
02:20we go through the week ahead and into the weekend it does gradually turn a little colder
02:25with some more unsettled weather arriving for next week.