00:00Hello, and welcome to the Met Office forecast for the weekend.
00:04If you've got any outdoor plans this weekend, two reasons to be slightly positive.
00:10It's not going to be as bad as last weekend, and there will be some sunny spells in between
00:15the frequent heavy showers.
00:17But it will also be windy, and those winds, well, not great for the middle of August.
00:24If you're camping, if you've got outdoor events planned, those winds could prove disruptive.
00:29So worth keeping an eye on.
00:31Certainly some filthy, potentially disruptive weather for England and Wales.
00:36For Friday evening's rush hour, yellow warning in force for western parts of England and
00:38Wales as the heavy rainfall slowly moves through.
00:42Windy with that as well.
00:43For Scotland and Northern Ireland, drying up through Friday afternoon.
00:48Clear spells and scattered showers following the persistent rainfall of the morning.
00:52And then that weather, the clearer weather at least, following into western parts of
00:55England and Wales by the end of Friday night.
00:58Rainfall there.
00:59Only slowly clearing.
01:00It's tied in with a cold front.
01:03And we do say goodbye to that cold front for a time on Friday afternoon and into the overnight
01:09period.
01:10It's tied in with this area of low pressure, mind you, and the parent low doesn't move
01:15very far through the weekend.
01:17It remains anchored over northern Scotland, just sitting there to the north of a very
01:23lively jet stream.
01:25And when we're on the cool side of the jet stream with low pressure in charge, we can
01:29expect blustery showers or longer spells of rain throughout the weekend.
01:35Tight isobars on that low pressure as well, so fairly windy at times.
01:40Now we start off Saturday with at least some sunny spells and after the overnight rain
01:45clears, East Anglia and the south east favoured for some sunny spells through Saturday morning.
01:49But you can see the strength of the breeze there, you can see scattered showers rattling
01:54through virtually everywhere, but the heaviest and most frequent showers, Western Scotland,
01:59Northern Ireland.
02:00Odd rumble of thunder with these as well, and the winds picking up coastal gales by
02:03the end of Saturday for Western Scotland.
02:07But there will be some sunshine in between the showers, at least for a time before it
02:11starts to cloud over again in the south and in the sunshine temperatures up into the low
02:1520s in some southern and eastern areas.
02:20Cloud in the south though increasing because we're going to see the return of this weather
02:24front.
02:25This is the feature that brings Friday night's rainfall, but it then pushes back up across
02:31southern and southeastern parts of the country for Saturday night.
02:35So a soggy night to come, nothing particularly heavy, but it looks fairly damp for south
02:40east England in particular as that weather front just wanders by.
02:46Meanwhile, low pressure again remains close to the north of Scotland, wrapped around it
02:51occluded fronts and they'll provide the focus for longer spells of rain I suspect, one pushing
02:57through western parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland early Sunday and then that moves into
03:01Irish sea areas by Sunday afternoon.
03:04And there could be some really heavy and prolonged rainfall associated with that, so we'll keep
03:08an eye on that one.
03:09Parts of Northern Ireland, north Wales into northwest England.
03:13And a squeeze in the isobars here means that it will be particularly windy across say Irish
03:18sea coast on Sunday itself, northwest England for example.
03:23So that's one to watch out for if you do have any outdoor activities planned.
03:28Slightly less windy for Scotland, but that of course means that the showers could be
03:32slower moving.
03:33In between the showers as always there'll be some sunny spells, especially around lunchtime
03:37in the south east, but further showers rattle through for Sunday afternoon.
03:41Plenty going on through the weekend, but essentially it's just on and off rain, sunshine
03:47in between, a keen breeze and feeling cool.
03:51In other words, not particularly summery, but I do have some good news if you're after
03:57some return to summer sunshine because although we keep the low pressure into the start of
04:02next week, we keep the jet stream to the south, watch what happens.
04:06The jet stream becomes much less powerful, much less organised and allows an area of
04:12high pressure to drift slowly in around the middle of next week.
04:17It's not going to bring an instant heatwave, it might not even bring much sunshine at first,
04:22but next week higher pressure eventually will lead to drier and brighter weather and by
04:28the end of the week it will start to warm up.
04:31So some good news on the horizon there if you've got any holiday plans through next
04:34week, but for the time being plenty going on and you can keep up to date with all the
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04:40Bye bye.
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