A wet start across southern Scotland, with a yellow warning for rain across Dumfries and Galloway. The rain clearing from northwest Scotland and Northern Ireland, with showers following. Turning wet across Devon and Cornwall, Wales and northwest England. Murky initially across southeastern areas, but turning brighter. -This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the morning of 04/02/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
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00:00Morning. There's a band of rain crossing the country today.
00:03So we'll all see a little bit at some point.
00:06Certainly a soggy start for much of southern Scotland.
00:09Metal Face Yellow warning in place across Dumfries and Galloway.
00:12That rain clearing away there from northwest Scotland and Northern Ireland.
00:15Some showers will follow in behind here, turning wet across Wales.
00:19A pretty soggy morning for west Wales.
00:21That rain moving into Devon and Cornwall and across northwest England too.
00:25Much of eastern England starting a bit murky,
00:27but probably brightening up a little through the day.
00:29Eventually, that rain will trickle into the Midlands and more central parts of southern England.
00:33But as you can see, it's kind of weakening.
00:35It gets narrower as it does so.
00:37It should clear away from Wales and much of southern Scotland.
00:40So brighter skies here to end the day, but still plenty of showers packing in on a fairly brisk breeze.
00:46And it's really quite windy around this line of rain as well.
00:49So that's going to make it feel cool, even though temperatures will generally be above average.
00:54And for many, we'll see highs into double digits, 10 or 11, maybe 12, where we see a little bit of brightness.
01:00That rain will spread into eastern England, but continuing to fizzle out.
01:04So just a little damp and drizzly this evening for east Anglia and the southeast.
01:07But some lively showers will continue to track into western Scotland.
01:12Some hail and thunder possibly mixed in with those.
01:15And a few of those lively showers getting into the north of Northern Ireland,
01:18maybe some into northwest England through the night.
01:20For a good chunk of the country, though, it will be a dry night with some clearer spells.
01:24And it will be perhaps a little colder than the night just gone.
01:28Most towns and cities staying a few degrees above freezing.
01:31But certainly in the countryside, there will be some pockets of frost to start tomorrow morning.
01:35But for many of us, we'll start off with a bit of sunshine, too.
01:38And for quite a few, it'll stay that way throughout the day.
01:41Yes, a few showers drifting into northwest England.
01:44The odd one for Wales and southwest England.
01:46And certainly showers will come and go through the day across western Scotland.
01:50But for many elsewhere, dry and bright.
01:52Certainly not expecting many showers for eastern Scotland.
01:55Sunny spells here, much of eastern England, too.
01:58So a dry and bright day for a good chunk.
01:59Not as windy, although still enough of a breeze to feed those showers through
02:04into the north coast of Northern Ireland and western Scotland.
02:07A colder day. Temperatures, though, still around average.
02:10Eight, nine, maybe ten Celsius across the southwest.
02:13But certainly a fresher feel because that cold front is moving through,
02:18introducing slightly cooler air.
02:20But it's going to get colder still.
02:22If we rewind to Tuesday evening, to this evening, there's that cold front pushing its way away.
02:27Behind that, high pressures moving in.
02:30But the winds are coming in from the west.
02:33But watch what happens through the rest of the week.
02:35The high really builds in across the UK, bringing a lot of dry and fine weather for Wednesday and Thursday.
02:42And then the high starts to drift away, meander up towards Scandinavia.
02:46And when we have high pressure over Scandinavia, with the winds going clockwise around it,
02:51that means they'll start coming in from the east.
02:54So a complete switch around in wind direction between today and Friday and Saturday.
02:59And easterly winds at this time of year, well, they are going to bring a chill.
03:03So temperatures are going to be dropping off quite a bit as we head towards the end of this week,
03:07with widespread frosts returning, noticeably colder by day as well.
03:12For more on that, you can watch our full week ahead video that Aidan recorded yesterday.
03:16That's available on our YouTube channel.