The best of the sunshine will be in western areas this afternoon, with cloud persisting in the east where there may be some drizzle in isolated hilly areas. Temperatures dropping to feel quite chilly where cloud clears this evening, but remaining cloudy and slightly milder for much of England, Wales and Scotland. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 31/01/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Honor Criswick.
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00:00Hello there, good afternoon. Some of us woke up to quite a grey and damp start this morning
00:05but in the west it was much brighter and that's likely where we'll see the best of the sunshine
00:09today. So across Northern Ireland, southern parts of Wales, Devon and Cornwall, also the
00:13south west and just to the north east of Scotland too, that's where we're likely to see plenty
00:17of sunny spells. But across a large portion of the country that cloud tends to stick around,
00:22could also see some drizzly spots mainly across hilly areas. And temperatures are round about
00:28average for this time of the year, perhaps slightly milder across the south west, highs
00:32of around 9-10 Celsius. As we head through into the evening there's not much change really,
00:38still plenty of cloud around, particularly across eastern and south eastern parts of
00:42the country, once again turning quite grey and murky by the time we reach the morning.
00:46But there are going to be some clearer periods once again across Wales and parts of the south
00:50west, north eastern parts of Scotland. That's where temperatures are likely to dip away,
00:55could even see some patchy frost by the morning and we will start to see a little bit of a
00:58change just to the north west. Clouds spilling in here, turning rather windy and also some
01:03outbreaks of drizzle just to the west of Scotland by the time we reach Saturday morning. Then
01:08for the beginning of the weekend, once again there will be some sunshine in places, mainly
01:13through the middle part of the country, so north western parts of Wales, perhaps the
01:16north east of England and Scotland, also across the south west seeing the best of the brightness.
01:21But across the south east, similar to today, that's where the cloud is likely to stick
01:25around. Turning very windy from the north west too, a chance we could even see some
01:30gales in the very far north west of Scotland and starting to see some longer spells of
01:33rain just edge into western parts of Northern Ireland and north western parts of Scotland,
01:38and temperatures once again around about average, perhaps slightly milder across Northern Ireland
01:42and western parts of Scotland. Then for the second part of the weekend we still have this
01:48frontal system to contend with. It doesn't edge in very far south eastwards, so it does
01:54largely remain stalled across the country by the time we reach Sunday morning. But behind
01:59it we do have a ridge beginning to build, so we should start to see the west brighten
02:03up through the course of the afternoon, but for many it's going to be quite a damp start
02:07on Sunday. But as this frontal system sticks around, it generally weakens, so largely just
02:13periods of cloud through the afternoon. And across the south east, likely to see a brighter
02:17day compared to the last couple of days too, so seeing some sunshine here. Also once again
02:22across western parts of Northern Ireland and western parts of Scotland. But for many, Sunday
02:27likely to be a rather cloudy day, also quite damp at times too. But once again, temperatures
02:33round about average for the beginning of February. That's everything from me. Don't forget for
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02:41that's it. Bye bye.