This evening, a brief dry and clear interlude across the country, but Storm Eowyn will arrive overnight bringing significant disruption with very strong winds and heavy downpours through tomorrow. The strongest winds will arrive in Northern Ireland and Scotland tomorrow morning. A red wind warning is in effect for Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. An amber wind warning is in effect for Wales, England and Scotland. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 23/01/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
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00:00Hello. As you probably know by now, Storm Eowyn is arriving. Red Met Office
00:06warnings have been issued for Northern Ireland, Central and South West
00:09Scotland for damaging winds on Friday. The storm itself has been steadily
00:14brewing during the course of Thursday, hiding under this massive cloud. It
00:19intensified somewhat through Wednesday night and continued to intensify during
00:24Thursday. Why? Well, it's all to do with the jet stream, a very powerful jet
00:30stream, a fast-moving ribbon of air high up in the atmosphere is picking this
00:35storm up and really developing it. The isobar is just popping out of it as it
00:40approaches the Republic of Ireland, bottoming out as it moves in just to the
00:45northwest of the UK. Its strongest winds on its southern flank, so the most
00:50dangerous gusts likely across central, southwestern Scotland and Northern
00:55Ireland during Friday, but it's going to be a very windy start right across the
01:00UK. More on the winds in a moment, but first of all let's get through tonight
01:05where many places actually dry and relatively calm over central and eastern
01:09parts of England. Showery rain clearing from Scotland, but then the storm moves
01:14in and it turns very wet in these western areas. There'll be snow over the
01:18hills of Northern Ireland, even at low levels for a time, and snow then moving
01:22into parts of Scotland, again particularly over the hills. We actually
01:26have a Met Office yellow warning in place for the snow, but it is, as I say,
01:30the winds that are the greatest cause for concern. Temperatures, well they'll
01:34dip initially with the clearest skies, but these are the numbers by morning, so
01:37quite a bit milder than it has been over many a recent morning across the south,
01:42but obviously it's not going to feel all that pleasant with the heavy rain and
01:45the very, very strong winds. Okay, let's look at those winds in more detail. If we
01:50rewind the clock and look at this storm, as I said the strongest winds in the
01:55southwestern quadrant really picking up during Thursday evening. This section
02:01here with the damaging gusts really ploughing into the west of the Republic
02:06of Ireland, but then for the morning rush hour across Northern Ireland as well.
02:10Southwesterly or westerly winds gusting 70, 80, 90 miles an hour, perhaps even
02:17more around exposed coasts. Then the storm system itself, the low heads its
02:21way across the Western Isles of Scotland with those dangerous gusts then just to
02:26the south across Western Scotland, but also potentially through the central
02:30belt of Scotland. Again, widely 70 mile an hour gusts, 80, 90 mile an hour gusts,
02:35possibly even a little bit more than that again around exposed coasts. The
02:39system then heads to the north, but still damaging gusts of wind are possible
02:43across Northern Scotland even into Saturday. So the warnings in place, those
02:47red warnings, Central and Western Scotland, Northern Ireland, in this zone
02:51as I mentioned 80, 90 mile an hour gusts, perhaps 100 mile an hour gusts on
02:55exposed coasts. Flanking those red warnings we have amber warnings where
02:59gusts of 70 to 80 miles an hour are potentially are possible and again gusts
03:05a little bit stronger than that over coasts and hills. Yellow warning covering
03:09all parts even further south where the winds won't be as intense but
03:12nevertheless could cause some disruption. As I mentioned there is also
03:16a snow warning in place across Scotland and a rain warning too for parts of
03:20Wales and southwest England after Thursday's rain. More rain could cause
03:25some flooding issues. The rain band itself is pretty broad but it should
03:29tend to zip through because of the strength of the wind and actually
03:32although it'll be a wet and windy start over a good part of the UK, much of
03:37England and Wales turning quite a bit brighter through the afternoon. But
03:40that's when the strongest winds will be into Western Scotland. As I mentioned
03:44those damaging gusts and still some snow falling over the hills here also. It does
03:49turn a bit drier in Northern Ireland and the the winds will ease a little bit but
03:53it's still going to be a very very windy day here. Temperatures will actually may
03:57dip a little bit as that weather front crosses further south. So seven or eight
04:02Celsius through the afternoon and again feeling colder with the winds and
04:05certainly feeling a lot colder with those very strong winds still across
04:08Northern Scotland. They will continue here through Friday evening. The amber
04:13warning remaining in place into Saturday morning across Northern Scotland. But
04:18elsewhere the weather does show signs of calming down a little bit during Friday
04:22night. As the wind start ease under clear skies there will be a frost so it's
04:27likely to be a pretty cold start to the weekend. But at least we are going to say
04:31goodbye to that storm system. Still providing very strong winds across
04:35Northern Scotland early on. But even here they should ease down through the day.
04:39Good chunk of the country looking dry and bright on Saturday. Good spells of
04:42sunshine but heavy blustery showers will then return to western parts come the
04:47afternoon. Temperatures pretty close to the average for the time of year. Now out
04:53in the Atlantic the jet stream remains pretty strong and so there is the
04:57potential for another pretty active area of low pressure as we say goodbye to
05:01storm Eowyn on Saturday. This area of low pressure then approaches doesn't
05:06look as intense but of course these weather fronts will be providing more
05:10rain and after a couple of days of very heavy rain that may cause some issues.
05:14And the isobars are still pretty close together so yes we do need to watch the
05:18winds on this system. As I said unlikely to be as dangerous as Eowyn but
05:23nevertheless could cause some disruption. We already have Met Office warnings in
05:26place for the second half of the weekend. Please check out all of the weather
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