Weekend weather – Strong winds, heavy showers and some hill snow 12/12/19 - video Dailymotion

Met Office

Very unsettled and cold over the weekend with continued strong winds, heavy showers and some hill snow. On Monday, although it will remain cold, it will generally become more settled.

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00:00Hello there and welcome to your weekend forecast issued this Thursday the 12th

00:04of December. Well into the weekend it remains unsettled, low pressure never too

00:10far away feeding in either showers or longer spells of rain. The air is

00:15relatively cold so as the rain hits the cold air there is a chance of snow and

00:20it will be windy at times. So let's take a look at the detail first of all Friday

00:25into Saturday morning. You can see the blues representing a cold air mass. To

00:30the south we're seeing this little weather front here which will skirt

00:34along the south coast. A stronger wind here keeping temperature slightly higher

00:37overnight into Saturday morning even so you could see some rain. Here's your low

00:42pressure system to the north of the UK and that will continue to feed in some

00:46showers. So as we zoom in you can see a windy start to Saturday morning. That

00:52weather system then clears down towards the near continent. In its wake though we

00:55will continue to see a feed of those showers. So let's take a look at the

00:59detail as we head through a Saturday morning. It will be a frosty start in

01:03places and in fact with that a cold one as well. You can see here that's the low

01:07pressure system that's where we like to see feed of showers right the way

01:11through the day. Perhaps some dry skies for the far north of Scotland but then

01:14another rash of showers just moving in across the central belt of Scotland.

01:18Western Scotland as well really in the firing line for these showers and they

01:22will turn to snow at times. Further south yes we will see a distribution of

01:27showers but also some sunshine. So the Midlands, the southeast, East Anglia

01:32seeing the driest conditions perhaps even some brighter weather to come

01:36through. A feed of cloud with a stronger wind for Wales through the afternoon on

01:40Saturday and waiting in the wings is this next system here. However along this

01:45sort of western side of Scotland particularly places such as the Trussocks

01:49we could see that rain turning to snow for some time. For Northern Ireland

01:53always just exposed to those showers yet again like the last few days and they

01:58could turn wintry over the hills. So let's look at the temperatures as we head

02:02through Saturday afternoon. Struggling to be honest. It's going to be cold across

02:06the north. Further south a little bit more of a milder feed coming in across

02:11the West Country. Nine here generally speaking five to eight degrees Celsius.

02:15So if you are out and about and you catch a window of drier weather then you

02:19will need to wrap up still because temperatures will be struggling and

02:22certainly those showers just could clip the east coast through the day. Inland

02:26across central and eastern areas of Scotland's a cold day here and rather

02:30cloudy. So that's the picture on Saturday. Through Saturday night this little

02:36system here will track across England and Wales. Notice the winds will pick up

02:39some strength. The air is still cold so across the north the feed of showers

02:44relative to these areas of low pressure will bring with it some wintryness. To

02:48the south this will be rain but as it hits the colder air particularly for

02:52northern parts of Wales as well as northern parts of England even the North

02:56Midlands we could actually see that rain turning to snow. At the moment the

03:01distribution of the rain and snow there's a little bit of uncertainty so

03:05keep an eye on the forecast. It could be slightly further south or north. Currently

03:09we're expecting it the centre just to track across northern counts of England

03:12and then it will clear off the scene through Sunday, the early hours of

03:16Sunday. And then this area of low pressure here continues to feed in those

03:20showers and they will become a bit more organised. Organised bands of rain and

03:24again at the risk of some snow. So this is a snapshot of the first part of

03:29Sunday morning. As you can see with the blues it's a cold start to the day. The

03:33ice bars represent the fact that the winds going to be strong at times and

03:36then overnight we would have seen rain or even some snow. Places such as South

03:41Yorkshire, Derbyshire, northern parts of Wales. So there could be a risk of some

03:45lying snow first thing on Sunday morning even a little bit of ice in places as

03:50temperatures fall. So that's the system clearing off the scene and then you can

03:54see here this swirl of clouds and showers feeding in those showers and

03:59again they could turn wintry and there is a risk here so keep an eye on the

04:03forecast. We could actually see perhaps some higher rainfall totals always in

04:07the firing line Argyll and Bute as well as the central belt of Scotland and the

04:11northern part of Northern Ireland seeing those showers as well. Further south

04:15more spells of showery rain feeding in yet again with a stronger wind but there

04:20will be some dry spells around. So for northern England through the afternoon

04:24we could see some dry weather here and for perhaps even the Midlands up towards

04:28Wales there's always a chance of those showers just lurking close by. Now it's

04:33going to be a cold day or wherever you are. Temperatures again only sort of the

04:38low single figures four to eight or nine degrees Celsius and the wind's still

04:42strong particularly across Wales, central southern England as well as the West

04:46Country and a strong relentless wind blowing in those showers

04:51across the western side of Scotland. The weather remains unsettled however a

04:56slight transition as we head through the first part of next week. It will turn

05:01for a time. There's still a few showers around but drier, brighter and colder

05:06still rather windy but then come the middle part of the week we resume more

05:11wet and windy weather and the temperatures slowly recover. Bye bye.

Weekend weather – Strong winds, heavy showers and some hill snow 12/12/19

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