Met Office Saturday morning weather forecast 04/01/2025

04 January - National weather forecast presented by Honor Criswick.

Transcript

00:00Hello there, good morning. For the first weekend of 2025 it is going to be an

00:05unsettled one, some strong winds, some rain and also some snow and ice with

00:09multiple Met Office warnings in force for the weekend including two amber

00:13warnings initially for parts of Wales where we have a snow and ice warnings

00:16this is for Saturday 6 p.m. through until Sunday at midday and then a

00:20secondary warning just to the north of England once again through Saturday

00:22evening all the way through until Sunday at midnight but elsewhere there was also

00:27plenty of warnings issued generally yellow for snow and ice to start on

00:32Saturday though there's actually going to be plenty of bright sunshine around

00:35after a cold start we could also see some frost and some ice to start on

00:38Saturday a few showers just feeding into the northwest particularly northern

00:42parts of Scotland where they could fall as sleet and snow mainly across hills

00:46but also to lower levels too then we do start to see a change as we head into

00:50Saturday evening heavy outbreaks of rain starting to push into the southwest also

00:54southern parts of Wales and strong winds underneath these cloudier skies

00:58too we may also start to see some sleet and snow just feed into higher ground

01:02across the southwest and southern parts of Wales a very cold day despite there

01:07being plenty of sunshine just to the north of this system temperatures widely

01:10three to four Celsius Celsius but just a degree or two higher across the

01:15southwest as that system starts to push through into the evening we'll continue

01:20to see these outbreaks of rain sleet and snow push their way northwards across

01:24the country this is when the amber warnings come into force across parts of

01:27England and Wales likely to see outbreaks of snow not just over hills

01:30but to lower levels too and also a chance we could see some freezing rain

01:34across southern parts of Wales potentially some southern parts of

01:37England too so likely to see widespread icy conditions across these areas too

01:41plenty of clear skies just to the north of this still those showers feeding and

01:46across northern parts of Scotland so likely to see once again a widespread

01:50frost here perhaps once again also some icy stretches and widely

01:54temperatures in towns and cities below zero now through into Sunday once again

02:00very unsettled still plenty of warnings in force as the system gradually moves

02:04its way into northern areas still those outbreaks of snow across the north and

02:07then just starting to feed into southern parts of Scotland may even see some snow

02:11across Northern Ireland too mainly falling as rain by this point across

02:15the south but it is still going to be feeling cold for much of the country

02:19highs only reaching around 2 to 3 degrees in some places now this system

02:23does drag in a brief spell of milder air so across the south temperatures more

02:26between 10 to 12 Celsius but overall it is going to be an unsettled day heavy

02:30outbreaks of rain and as I say those outbreaks of snow across northern areas

02:34likely to cause some travel disruption over the weekend and there's a good

02:38chance we could see some updates to these warnings too over the weekend so

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