Rain continuing across Wales and the Midlands up into northern England, accompanied by strong winds, with yellow warnings for heavy rain and strong winds. The rain pushing northwards for a time into the south of Northern Ireland and southern Scotland overnight whilst southern parts of Wales and the Midlands see some drier spells developing. Drier but with strong winds across southern areas of England. Strongs winds and rain also affecting the far north of Scotland, with the rain turning to snow over the high ground and increasingly wintry showers affecting Shetland. Yellow warnings for rain and snow here. Mild across the south but colder in the north. - This is the Met Office Weather forecast for the evening of 31/12/2024. Bringing you tonight's weather forecast is Clare Nasir.
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00:00Hello there and welcome to your evening weather update from the Met Office. It's
00:05the 31st of December, into the new year the air turns a lot colder. Before that
00:10though it's lively outside with the risk of heavy rain, strong winds and rain and
00:16snow across the north of Scotland. The air is turning colder from the north,
00:19windy wherever you are and the risk of snow across Shetland as well as Orkney.
00:24That rain turning to snow across northern parts of Scotland. Further south
00:28gusty winds across many parts and a rain warning then kicks in across
00:32northern England as well as Wales. Some high rainfall totals as this weather
00:36front stalls before sinking southwards into New Year's Day and the winds will
00:40be strong associated with it. Hence the reason why there's a wind warning across
00:44central and southern parts of England and Wales. More details of our weather
00:48warnings check out the Met Office website. You'll see details of where you
00:52live and what the risks are associated with different types of weather and then
00:56the air turns a lot colder from the north with a snow and ice warning for
00:59northern Scotland. Now we are heading out this evening, stepping outside, just take
01:04a look at this detail here. The rain will continue across much of Wales, the
01:09Midlands extending up towards Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire as well, even
01:14Northumberland seeing a little bit. Now for Cumbria the rain will wax and wane
01:17as well as for Lancashire. You'll see some strong winds associated with this
01:22weather front. So this wet weather continues across these parts through
01:26this evening. It may just nudge up to southern parts of Northern Ireland as we
01:30head through the evening but notice towards the north a strong wind here
01:34driving that rain and eventually that cold air will sink southwards so the
01:39rain will turn to snow with some snow showers arriving across Shetland as well.
01:43Now through the evening this rain continues across northern England
01:47perhaps bumping northwards for a time and extending across the Midlands.
01:51Southern parts of Wales seeing the rain wax and wane but you could see some
01:55drier weather as we head through to midnight and certainly drier conditions
01:59with a strong wind across central and southern parts of England and Wales
02:02towards East Anglia. So as we head through to the first part of 2025 you
02:08can see where this rain is, you can see where the strong winds are, the rain
02:11turning to snow across the far north of Scotland, a real biting wind extending
02:15down towards Northern Ireland as well. Now through into New Year's Day this
02:21band of rain will have some heavy pulses associated with it and it will turn
02:26quite squally through the early hours of the 1st of January as gradually it moves
02:31southwards. Elsewhere this band of rain here with some snow associated with it
02:35will gradually sink down towards Aberdeenshire as well as Kengorn,
02:39Northwest Highlands seeing perhaps even some blizzards associated with those
02:43strong winds. Here are your temperatures then still mild in the south much colder
02:48in the north and here are your warning zones as we enter the 1st of January. So
02:53a rain warning across northern parts of Wales down towards southern parts of
02:57Wales and northern parts of England. Yes that rain will be quite heavy so a wet
03:01and windy start to the day here but notice there's some clearance coming in
03:05from the north so you'll see some drier skies perhaps one or two showers but
03:09certainly some clearer weather for places such as the far north of England
03:12the far south of Scotland through the first part of New Year's Day. Showers
03:16file in across Northern Ireland, Western Scotland as well as that rain becomes
03:20even heavier as we head through into the middle part of New Year's Day. Some
03:24squally winds associated with it as well so the winds will be the main feature of
03:28the weather across central and southern parts of England and Wales through the
03:31first part of the day and then the wind kicks in from the north bringing with it
03:36some snow showers mostly across coastal districts but penetrating inland as well
03:40as this band of rain with a little bit of snow particularly over the higher
03:43ground moves down towards northern England through the latter part of the
03:47day. We hang on to the rain across central southern parts of England and
03:50Wales and also those squally winds. Now the warning for snow and ice across the
03:56far north as temperatures tumble so that will continue into the 2nd of January
04:01the air does turn that cold and in fact you'll notice the difference wherever
04:05you are through the latter part of the day temperatures really taking a tumble
04:08towards more southern areas. That rain eventually clears through the 1st of
04:12January which is good news and you'll see some clearer skies. Notice this
04:16frost extending southwards into the early hours of Thursday morning so a
04:21fairly widespread frost the risk of ice where you've seen those snow showers and
04:25those snow showers continue through the day on Thursday. So mostly along the
04:30coastline but they will move inland particularly across the Cairngorms and
04:34some wintry showers moving down towards Northern Ireland a few clipping the far
04:38west of Wales and also the east coast seeing some showers with that driving
04:43wind. It's a cold day with a wind chill where you are exposed to that wind. Inland
04:48you'll see some sunshine and after a frosty start on Friday yes some
04:53sunshine coming through and just a few wintry showers. Wherever you are take
04:56care tonight and a very happy new year to you.