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A warm front passes through the UK bringing mild air and lots of clouds, hill fogs in the west, and patchy drizzle particularly over hills of northern England and western Scotland. Elsewhere dry with some clearer spells across northeastern Wales, northeastern England and northeastern Scotland. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 24/12/2024. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern.

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00:00Hi there. The weather might not have a festive feel that many people ask for at Christmas
00:06time but actually there is some fine weather at least for the big day itself. Now for Christmas
00:12Eve we've seen this warm front go through and so the whole of the UK now is in a mild
00:18west to southwest Atlantic airflow. A lot of cloud, that cloud giving continued hill
00:23fog in the west and some patchy drizzle particularly over hills of northern England and western
00:28Scotland but for many it's a dry afternoon ahead with some brighter spells coming through
00:35for the likes of north east Wales, north east England and north east Scotland where the
00:39cloud breaks up a little over the hills and that's where the highest temperatures are
00:44likely so widely 12 or 13 Celsius but in some places where the temperature will warm up
00:51as the wind comes over the hills it could get to 14 or 15 Celsius, north east Wales,
00:57north east England, north east Scotland. 15.6 Celsius is the record in the UK for
01:04Christmas Eve and it wouldn't surprise me if the temperature on Christmas Eve afternoon
01:08comes close to that. Now overnight we're going to see the winds pick up across the north
01:14west of Scotland, 15 mph wind gusts in some exposed spots along with some persistent rain
01:18for Shetland, for Lewis Harris and the north west Highlands. Elsewhere it's mostly dry,
01:25one or two spots of drizzle over western hills but otherwise a dry night in store and
01:30a very mild night with extensive cloud once again and temperatures in many locations not
01:36dipping below the double figures. Despite the mild and gloomy start to Christmas Day
01:42actually there will be some brighter weather coming along and I think for England, Wales,
01:46eastern Scotland it's going to be a brighter day compared with Christmas Eve. You can see
01:50these cloud breaks developing, a little uncertainty about exactly how many of these cloud breaks
01:55will form and where but it does look a little more favoured for brighter spells coming through
02:00for the Midlands, southern England, east Wales for example and north east Scotland. And once
02:07again it is a very mild day, temperatures down about a degree compared with Christmas
02:12Eve so unlikely to break any records for Christmas Day. A similar record for Christmas Day is
02:1715.6 Celsius but mostly it's going to be 11 or 12 Celsius, one or two spots could get
02:23to 13 or 14 degrees. Again it's going to be wet and windy in the far north west of
02:28Scotland but otherwise plenty of fine weather out there if you're planning a Christmas Day
02:33walk for example. Now into Christmas Day night, the rain in north west Scotland continues
02:40to fall and it starts to edge slowly south eastwards along with gusty winds returning
02:46here and that front by Boxing Day morning is across the central belt and northern Ireland
02:53pushing into parts of southern Scotland. Still some cloud breaks further south but
02:57the cloud will tend to thicken once again by the afternoon and that cloud will be low
03:01so another grey day for many. The damp weather though mostly confined to parts of northern
03:07England and Scotland with some brighter spells coming along for the far north as that front
03:12clears and feeling a little colder as that happens, 7 or 8 Celsius along with one or
03:17two showers but we keep the double figures further south although a degree or so down
03:23on Christmas Day's temperatures. For the rest of the week and into the weekend it stays
03:28mostly dry with a lot of cloud although there will be some rain at times in the north in
03:33particular.

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