A very cold start with a widespread frost, and icy stretches particularly where we have seen showers overnight. Those showers continuing to give snow accumulations across northern Scotland. Widely below freezing, and down to minus double digits where we have snow cover. Freezing fog patches slowly clearing but persisting in places, particularly in Northern Ireland, Wales and the Midlands. Cloud and outbreaks of rain across the southwest, with snow above 150 metres above sea level. Warnings for snow and ice. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the morning of 10/01/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern
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00:00Hello, a very cold start out there, widespread frost and watch out for slippery surfaces.
00:06Once again, icy patches the main hazard as we begin the day, certainly where we've had
00:10precipitation falling overnight and then freezing of the ground and the air, minus five Celsius
00:16widely minus double figures for some of the colder parts of Northern Britain, particularly
00:21where we've got snow cover and some higher ground.
00:24We continue to see freezing fog patches persist through the morning, Northern Ireland, parts
00:28of Wales, the Midlands for example, some of these will continue into the afternoon.
00:32Otherwise, plenty of crisp winter sunshine in the east, further south-west we've got
00:36an area of cloud and we start the day with outbreaks of rain, again falling onto frozen
00:40ground, could lead to some slippery surfaces and a few more centimetres of snow coming
00:44out of that, above 150 metres mainly, so predominantly Dartmoor seeing the largest snow accumulations
00:51from this system.
00:52But it does tend to fizzle away by the end of the day, some places not seeing temperatures
00:56rise above freezing all day.
00:59And then under clear skies as we go into the night time, widespread freezing fog will
01:04form once again, this time most likely the Midlands, parts of eastern England for example.
01:09And that's likely to be extensive on Saturday morning, so poor visibility about and it's
01:14likely to persist with temperatures once again widely below freezing and below minus ten
01:19Celsius in some of the colder spots in the north where we've got snow cover.
01:23A marked contrast to Northern Ireland, Wales and the south-west where we start the weekend
01:27with cloud and frost free where we've got that cloud cover, some outbreaks of rain,
01:31perhaps a few flakes of snow initially.
01:33But this system is bringing much milder air in, so it's a cold day again on Saturday in
01:38the east, but watch how the weather changes as we go into Sunday.
01:42We've got this warm front pushing into northern parts of the UK, high pressure building in
01:46the south, so we keep that cold air in the south-east in particular for another day or
01:51two, but across parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, western England and Wales, you can
01:56see how the milder air begins to intrude on Sunday and with a freshening breeze coming
02:01from the south-west for western Scotland in particular, it's going to turn much wetter.
02:06Dry though further south with that high pressure and the indication is that through next week
02:12we'll keep high pressure close to the south, so mostly dry, a few frosty nights perhaps,
02:16a lot of cloud coming along eventually, whilst further north it will be more changeable with
02:21spells of wind and rain for the north-west of Scotland.