Saturday morning forecast 01/01/22

Met Office

01 January - National weather forecast presented by Alex Deakin.

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00:00Happy New Year from everyone at the Met Office.

00:03Certainly, the weather is going to be blowing a few cobwebs away

00:06on New Year's Day, a blustery day with a gusty wind.

00:09Bright spells for many, however, and most places

00:13will be dry for much of the day.

00:15And it is going to be a very mild start to 2022.

00:21There's a little bit of patchy rain around

00:22across parts of Scotland through New Year's Eve.

00:25Maybe it'll shower for Northern Ireland as well.

00:28But the bulk of England and Wales staying dry, quite cloudy.

00:31And as I said, it is very mild if you're out celebrating

00:35the start of the new year.

00:37Bit of rain clearing away from Scotland

00:39by the time we get to dawn.

00:40So most places will start dry on Saturday,

00:44but with a lot of cloud.

00:45And again, the winds continuing to come up from the south

00:48and keeping those temperatures well above average

00:50for the time of year.

00:51We're starting New Year's Day in double figures.

00:54Also starting windy, particularly

00:56along the West Coast.

00:57Very blustery across the western side of Scotland.

01:01Gusts of 60, maybe 70 miles an hour for a time

01:03across the Western Isles.

01:04They'll ease steadily through the day.

01:06We'll see this zone of thicker clouds with patchy rain

01:09working from west to east across England and Wales,

01:12but really fizzling out as it does so.

01:14And arriving across East England and the southeast,

01:16perhaps late in the afternoon.

01:18Showers will keep going in Western Scotland,

01:20but it will stay windy.

01:21But elsewhere, say, much of the day

01:24will be dry and a bit brighter than recently,

01:26with a better chance of seeing some sunny spells.

01:29That wind will be blowing the cobwebs away for sure,

01:31but it will also be continuing to bring mild air temperatures

01:35again widely into the teens.

01:38We could see highs once more of 14 or 15 degrees Celsius.

01:43Through the evening, that patchy rain

01:45could easily continue across the southeast,

01:47especially across parts of Kent.

01:49And then we look further west as zones of heavy showers

01:52come into England and Wales to start Sunday.

01:55That will clear out into the North Sea.

01:57But then look at this, another little feature

01:59that needs watching, actually.

02:00Really nasty.

02:01This could have some quite heavy rain and some gusty winds

02:04as it moves in on Sunday morning across the southwest

02:07and then spreads more widely across England and Wales

02:10during Sunday.

02:11Some uncertainty about the intensity

02:12and the exact position, but that could

02:14bring a spell of very heavy rain and gusty winds.

02:18We'll keep a mixture of sunshine and showers

02:19for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

02:21Quite gusty winds all the time, but especially

02:23on Sunday along the south coast.

02:26Still pretty mild, but temperatures just dropping down

02:30a degree or so and obviously feeling

02:32pretty grim under that zone of wet and windy weather coming

02:35into central areas.

02:36Low pressure continuing to dominate,

02:38but in the hour we will see a shift.

02:40We're going to lose the southwesterly winds

02:43and introduce the winds more from the north

02:45as we go through Monday and more particularly

02:47into Tuesday and Wednesday.

02:49A ridge of high pressure should bring some brighter skies,

02:53but we'll notice the change in temperatures in particular

02:55if we just rewind back to New Year's Day.

02:59Very mild air across the UK, but things

03:01start to turn cooler through Sunday and Monday

03:05and then we open the door to these northerly winds

03:07bringing much colder air by Tuesday and Wednesday.

03:11So quite a change on the way through the middle part

03:14of the week, but a very mild start to 2022.

03:18Watch out for some heavy showers,

03:19especially across the south during the course of Sunday.

03:23Keep up to date for the rest of the year

03:26by following the Met Office on social media.

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