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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 15/01/2024. It will be another cold week across the UK this week, particularly overnight. Many inland and southern areas will stay dry with winter sunshine for much of the week but snow showers will move into northern areas with some periods of more significant snow likely.

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00:00 Hello, welcome to your latest week-long forecast from the Met Office. It's going to be another

00:04 cold week and for some of us a snowy one too and that's because we've got this cold Arctic

00:10 air being brought in by this northerly wind and we're going to stay with this cold air

00:14 through the whole week. With that northerly wind we'll see showers pushing in to similar

00:18 areas mainly northern parts of the UK but at times there will be some features that

00:23 bring some more significant snowfall. And this frontal system you can see here is one

00:27 of those features that will bring some more significant snow through the course of Tuesday.

00:31 There is some uncertainty with the exact track on this and so how much of the areas we'll

00:36 see some snowfall. But we do have a snow and ice warning in force for many north and western

00:41 areas of the UK and that's as that feature brings a mix of sleet and snow to parts of

00:45 Northern Ireland, the central belt, southern Scotland as well as north-western areas of

00:49 England perhaps coming as far south as North Wales too. To the south of that it'll likely

00:56 be quite a dry day, plenty of sunshine but after the very cold start it will feel fairly

01:00 chilly. However as I said plenty of sunshine and the winds are quite light so in the south

01:05 we'll see highs of around 5 or 6 degrees. In the north though underneath plenty more

01:09 clouds sleet and snow is going to be a bit of a gloomy day and we could see some disruption

01:13 on the roads because of that snow. And then through Tuesday night we continue we see that

01:18 feature move off to the east and if we look further south you can see this area of low

01:23 pressure and it's this area of low pressure that we have been tracking for a week or so

01:26 now it's this that will bring a risk of snow to the south coast. There is still a good

01:31 deal amount of uncertainty in exactly the track of the low pressure. At the moment we're

01:36 expecting it to just skim along to the south keeping that risk of snow to the south but

01:40 there is still a small chance of a few centimetres along the south coast. But for the bulk of

01:45 the UK we'll be staying in this cold arctic air through the course of Wednesday. So that

01:50 means it'll be a very cold start to the day on Wednesday. We could be down as low as -15

01:55 in some Scottish glens but widely rurally down as low as -10 degrees in the north and

02:01 closer to -5 degrees in the south. So a very sharp frost to start on Wednesday morning

02:06 and we do have further snow and ice warnings in force. Where we do see that snow overnight

02:11 on Tuesday night and any further showers there'll be an ice risk on the roads. Showers will

02:16 mainly be restricted to parts of Northern Ireland and Northern Scotland through the

02:19 course of Wednesday. So northern areas of England and many central areas seeing a dry

02:24 day, plenty of further crisp winter sunshine and light winds too. So not feeling too bad

02:30 but it is still quite chilly and you can see the deep blues showing a frost lasting through

02:34 much of the day. Notice as well we'll see some further cloud across eastern areas and

02:38 perhaps some snow showers clipping the edge of Norfolk as well through Wednesday afternoon.

02:43 And then on Thursday we see that little change where we continue to see that cold arctic

02:49 air dominating across the UK. There is a frontal system that will bring some more focused

02:54 showers to parts of Scotland but it's here that we'll continue to see the greatest risk

02:58 of snow and ice. There are further weather warnings in force for Thursday and it's going

03:01 to be an even colder start on Thursday with clearer skies for the bulk of the country.

03:06 That means it'll be widely as low as -10 degrees rurally. We could be closer to -20

03:12 in parts of rural Scotland as well. So we'll be keeping an eye on that because those are

03:16 exceptionally low temperatures for this time of year. But further snow showers will move

03:21 in to Northern Ireland as well as Northern Scotland through the course of Thursday. Elsewhere

03:26 though it should stay largely dry. North Wales also seeing a risk of some snow showers as

03:30 well as southern Scotland into the latter part of the day. But further east you are

03:35 the more likely you are to stay dry. And again a very similar feeling day to Wednesday and

03:40 Tuesday. Plenty of sunshine and dry weather so not bad weather to be getting out and about.

03:45 On Thursday evening though we start to see a slight shift in our weather pattern. You

03:49 can see the colours turning slightly paler blue and our wind direction coming in from

03:53 more of a westerly. Now that's a bit of a change than what we've seen for the past two

03:57 weeks now. And we'll start to see that more Atlantic weather bringing some milder, wetter

04:03 and windier weather into the start of the weekend. But before that arrives it will be

04:08 another cold start on Friday. However it's through the course of Friday that we start

04:12 to see that change as the winds come in from the west. We're less likely to see any of

04:16 those showers to many areas of northern England. So it should stay dry. However the far north

04:21 of Scotland will see a mix of sleet and snow. The snow mainly restricted to the high ground

04:26 this time however. But it will turn cloudier from the west through the day. But also temperatures

04:31 will slowly start to rise. So highs of around nine degrees in the southwest by the end of

04:35 the day on Friday. And that milder air becomes more dominant into the weekend. But it does

04:40 bring more in the way of rain, cloud and some stronger winds for the weekend and through

04:45 much of next week as well. So there is a bit of a change by the end of the week. But before

04:49 then there's plenty of cold weather to come. We do have a lot of snow and ice warnings

04:54 in force. And with snow in the forecast the details can change day to day. So it's really

04:58 important to keep up to date with the details. And you can do that by subscribing to our

05:02 YouTube channel. I'll see you next time.

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