Fine and sunny for the majority, with brisk and chilly wind along the eastern coasts. Snow showers across northern Scotland and a mix of hail, sleet and snow across northern parts of Northern Ireland. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 02/01/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
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00:00Hello and a very happy new year to you. The weather's taken a turn for the colder as you've
00:06probably noticed. A chilly start to Thursday morning under largely clear skies. Big area
00:12of high pressure sitting out to the northwest of the UK. This line of cloud is the cold
00:17front that brought quite a lot of wet weather across the south during Wednesday. It's a
00:22cold front so now it's cleared through. We're in the colder air and we're seeing plenty
00:25of showers coming in. Those showers are of snow across northern Scotland and northern
00:30parts of Northern Ireland. Seeing a mix of hail and sleet and snow in the showers too
00:34and a few of them just grazing the eastern side of England where there's a particularly
00:38brisk and chilly wind. For the vast majority though it is just a fine sunny winter's day.
00:46Temperatures struggling a little bit, generally getting up to 3 or 4 degrees Celsius, maybe
00:515 or 6 across parts of the south. But feeling a lot colder along the east coast with that
00:56brisk wind and certainly colder across northern Scotland with that cold air in place. Further
01:01snow showers coming in here. In fact we've got a weather front pushing south bringing
01:04a bit more in the way of sleet and snow coming in across northern Scotland during the night.
01:10Further west it'll turn slightly milder. So although there'll be some snow showers, many
01:15of the showers here will be of rain. But that could then lead to things being icy across
01:19western Scotland, northern Ireland and down into parts of northwest England. So Met Office
01:23yellow warnings are in place for the night. For much of England and Wales though just
01:28a dry night, lengthy clear spells and a hard frost forming. Temperatures widely well below
01:34freezing certainly in towns and cities maybe down to minus 5, minus 6 in some rural parts
01:39of the south. Still those wintry conditions across Scotland first thing. So warnings in
01:45place and the ice warning in place for northwest England, northern Ireland too as the showers
01:49continue to feed in here. The snow should start to ease across northern Scotland during
01:54the morning. The odd shower here and there but many places across the south will again
01:58be dry and fine with plenty of sunshine. Again temperatures are going to struggle. However
02:04after starting a few degrees below will tick up to just a few degrees above 3 or 4 Celsius,
02:10a high for many of us. And then a bit more of a change as we go through Friday evening
02:15again temperatures will drop quite quickly once more below freezing. So again the potential
02:20for icy conditions wherever we've got any showers feeding in. At this stage many of
02:24those showers will be of rain, some snow over the hills. But we're not done with the snowy
02:30weather and we need to look down to the southwest for things changing. This area of low pressure
02:35is moving in. Now it's coming in from the southwest so it is actually going to bring
02:39eventually some milder air with it but it's also going to bring moisture. And as that
02:43moisture hits the colder air in place well that could generate some heavy snowfall as
02:49it moves northwards during Saturday night and into Sunday. So there's the milder air.
02:53It's really on this boundary where this weather front lies that we could see some heavy snow
02:58for a time and it's tending to move north and then kind of pivot round. So the Midlands,
03:02Wales, northern England, southern Scotland are at risk from a heavy dump of snow. Could
03:07see some freezing rain as well particularly across parts of Wales. Into the weekend we
03:13are quite concerned about this area of low pressure bringing more wintry problems. As
03:17I say freezing rain and some heavy snowfall. Warnings are in place for that. Check out
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