08 February - national forecast presented by Jonathan Vautrey
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00:00Hello there, very good evening to you. If it feels like we're in a fairly stagnant weather
00:05pattern it's well because we are. There is an area of high pressure across northern Europe
00:10that is essentially acting as a blocking system and it's not allowing these smaller areas
00:14of low pressure to move much further than the UK. So into this evening and overnight
00:18we are going to see further outbreaks of rain and drizzle particularly across England and
00:22Wales, a few showers for eastern Scotland as well. As the system slowly moves northwards
00:26there will be some clearer spells emerging across the very far south and also we will
00:30hold on to clear skies across north-western Scotland as well. Underneath those starry
00:34scenes though temperatures are certainly set to drop as low as minus seven or minus eight
00:38degrees Celsius in the most sheltered rural spots of Scotland. This will be accompanied
00:43by some freezing fog patches, maybe also some icy stretches around where surfaces are left
00:47untreated and are still wet from some of these showers and rain outbreaks that are still
00:52lingering around. Despite the very cold start to Sunday across
00:56the far north and south it is here where we are going to see the best of the sunshine
00:59to kick off the day, particularly across the Highlands out towards the outer Hebrides and
01:04parts of Argyll and Bute. It is going to be another very fine and pleasant day here with
01:08sunshine right throughout. Generally further south the cloud will tend to build throughout
01:12the day. It's going to be western areas of Wales down towards Cornwall and the outer
01:16city that holds on to the best of the sunshine here as further outbreaks of rain move into
01:20the southeast. Temperatures underneath that cloud around six to seven degrees Celsius
01:26but we are now starting to see the easterly wind pick up once again. That is going to
01:30start making it feel colder and this easterly wind is going to be in play as we move into
01:36the start of the new working week with that blocking area of high pressure still in charge
01:40across Scandinavia. So cold air already in play but we now have to add a wind chill factor
01:45on top of that. So it is going to be feeling quite bitter in places on Monday. Wind coming
01:50in off the North Sea is providing plenty of moisture to produce even more cloud. Further
01:55showers moving in there will be wintry over the higher grounds as well. It is always going
01:59to be out towards north and west of Scotland that holds on to the best of the sunshine.
02:03Some other areas in the west might see some glimmers of brightness around at times. Temperatures
02:08are really starting to struggle. Five, six degrees Celsius as our top temperatures but
02:14again we have got a factor in that wind strength that is really now picking up and it is going
02:19to feel more like freezing for the vast majority of us on Monday. So certainly it will be one
02:24to be wrapping up warm if you are heading outside. Will that blocking area of high pressure
02:30ever clear away? Well we will have plenty more updates on what you can expect during
02:34the forthcoming week across all of our social media channels as well as on YouTube so do
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