00:00Hello, a very cold start out there, widespread frost and watch out for slippery surfaces.
00:06Once again, icy patches the main hazard as we begin the day, certainly where we've had
00:10precipitation falling overnight and then freezing of the ground and the air, minus five Celsius
00:16widely minus double figures for some of the colder parts of Northern Britain, particularly
00:21where we've got snow cover and some higher ground.
00:24We continue to see freezing fog patches persist through the morning, Northern Ireland, parts
00:28of Wales, the Midlands for example, some of these will continue into the afternoon.
00:32Otherwise, plenty of crisp winter sunshine in the east, further south-west we've got
00:36an area of cloud and we start the day with outbreaks of rain, again falling onto frozen
00:40ground, could lead to some slippery surfaces and a few more centimetres of snow coming
00:44out of that, above 150 metres mainly, so predominantly Dartmoor seeing the largest snow accumulations
00:51from this system.
00:52But it does tend to fizzle away by the end of the day, some places not seeing temperatures
00:56rise above freezing all day.
00:59And then under clear skies as we go into the night time, widespread freezing fog will
01:04form once again, this time most likely the Midlands, parts of eastern England for example.
01:09And that's likely to be extensive on Saturday morning, so poor visibility about and it's
01:14likely to persist with temperatures once again widely below freezing and below minus ten
01:19Celsius in some of the colder spots in the north where we've got snow cover.
01:23A marked contrast to Northern Ireland, Wales and the south-west where we start the weekend
01:27with cloud and frost free where we've got that cloud cover, some outbreaks of rain,
01:31perhaps a few flakes of snow initially.
01:33But this system is bringing much milder air in, so it's a cold day again on Saturday in
01:38the east, but watch how the weather changes as we go into Sunday.
01:42We've got this warm front pushing into northern parts of the UK, high pressure building in
01:46the south, so we keep that cold air in the south-east in particular for another day or
01:51two, but across parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, western England and Wales, you can
01:56see how the milder air begins to intrude on Sunday and with a freshening breeze coming
02:01from the south-west for western Scotland in particular, it's going to turn much wetter.
02:06Dry though further south with that high pressure and the indication is that through next week
02:12we'll keep high pressure close to the south, so mostly dry, a few frosty nights perhaps,
02:16a lot of cloud coming along eventually, whilst further north it will be more changeable with
02:21spells of wind and rain for the north-west of Scotland.
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