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Weekend weather 09/01/2025 – Will it warm up?
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09/01/2025
This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the weekend 09/01/2025. Fog and frost will continue to feature in the weekends weather but will the temperatures start to creep up? Bringing you this weekend’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
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Hello. After a very cold week, temperatures will be ticking up slowly this weekend, but
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still, for most, it is going to be cold. These are Saturday's temperatures when compared
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to the mid-January average. You can see most places will be still below that average and
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well below for central and eastern parts. That's because some stubborn fog is likely
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here. By the time we get to Sunday, well, only a few places will be below average, but
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still chilly across these eastern parts of England. Parts of the north and west will
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start to climb back above average. So it's going to be a slow old process, but it is
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turning a little milder as we go into next week. What's going on? Well, let's take a
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look at the bigger picture. The pressure pattern shows this area of high pressure battling
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with an area of low pressure, but it's a fairly weak affair. This weather front is just slowly
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trickling in during Friday and likely to push a little further into parts of the west as
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we head into Saturday. Some question marks as to how much snow it will bring. Probably
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not much away from the hills, but it will also bring more cloud and that will help to
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keep the temperatures up in parts of the west. We may not actually be low freezing to start
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the weekend across parts of south Wales and southwest England, whereas many central and
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eastern areas will be again below freezing and well below in rural spots across northeast
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England and eastern Scotland. So, yes, for many, it is a frosty start to the weekend.
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Further west, we will have that cloud from that weather front and it will be bringing
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some outbreaks of rain, sleet and hill snow. That could mean it's quite icy on Saturday
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morning across parts of Wales, southwest England and Northern Ireland. Some uncertainty about
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how much snow we see. We could see some, but mostly over the hills. I think at low levels
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it will chiefly be rain or sleet. It kind of fizzles out as we go through the day. Now,
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further east, the big issue will be fog. That's a big question mark about how much we see
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over the Midlands and eastern England and how long it lasts. It could stick around all
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day as it often does at this time of year. But away from the mist and fog, many eastern
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parts of England and Scotland will actually be dry, fine and sunny once more. The wind's
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pretty light here as well after we start the day well below freezing, minus three, minus
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four in towns and cities, plus three, plus four at best. Some places, particularly if
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that fog does stick across central and eastern England, may not get above freezing. Whereas
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further west, temperatures just started to tick up a little bit. It won't get as cold
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overnight because of this blanket of cloud. It'll still feel pretty cold, though, because
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it is going to be a fairly grey day here. What happens next? Well, that weather front
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is bumping up against the high pressure, so it kind of weakens, fizzles out, breaks up.
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The high then takes control across the south. But weather fronts start toppling in across
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the north and notice the ice bars getting closer together. So the winds will be strengthening
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across northern and western parts during Sunday. But coming up from the south means
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they will be bringing milder air, but they're also going to bring cloud and some outbreaks
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of rain. That'll be pushing in across parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, particularly
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the north of Northern Ireland during Sunday. So there will be some rain around. Now, this
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rain doesn't look especially heavy, but rain combined with higher temperatures melting
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the snow that's fallen this week, well, that could give a few issues. So we need to watch
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conditions across parts of Scotland. There is the potential for that snow melt with a
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bit of rain to cause some flooding. For much of England and Wales, it's a dry day on Sunday.
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Quite a lot of high cloud around, so the sun showed fairly hazy across northern England
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and Wales. Again, the chance of some stubborn fog patches across parts of the east, but
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a good chunk of England and Wales looking dry and bright on Sunday. As I said at the
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start, it is getting milder, but it is taking its time. Still over the central and eastern
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areas, we may not get much above four or five degrees Celsius, but further west and
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further north, it may not feel that much milder because of the wind and the rain, but we should
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eventually tick up to seven, eight, maybe by the end of the day, nine or 10 Celsius
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in one or two places. And it will turn milder across the south as we go into next week.
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But that's next week. Before that, still on the cold side. So are you weather ready? We've
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still got more than half of winter left to go. There's loads of really good advice about
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how to prepare yourself and your house or your car for the wintry weather on the Met
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Office website. If you go to our website, put forward slash weather ready. Lots of top
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tips in there. So go and check it out.
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