Met Office Thursday Evening Weather Forecast 09/01/2024

09 January - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern

Transcript

00:00Hi there. Cold weather continues across the UK with widespread frosts and some icy patches

00:07around during the next few nights. Certainly on Thursday night there will be a continuation

00:12of wintry showers, sleet and snow showers coming into the north of Scotland, another

00:16few centimetres of snow building up in places. Also some showers tickling the east coast

00:21of the UK, one or two into Northern Ireland and North Wales. And where we see these showers

00:26and indeed where we don't see the showers there's the risk of slippery surfaces because

00:30it's going to be a widespread very cold night, minus 4, minus 5 Celsius widely, as low as

00:35minus 16 or minus 17 Celsius where we've got snow covered parts of Northern England and

00:41Scotland. There'll also be some freezing fog patches to wake up to Northern Ireland, parts

00:45of Wales and the Midlands, so a very wintry flavour once again. But to the south-west

00:51an area of rain is moving in, a milder start to Cornwall, but as that rain falls onto frozen

00:56surfaces there's the risk of icy patches in the south-west and across parts of Wales

01:00and a few more centimetres of snow above 150 metres, so predominantly Dartmoor. Eight degrees

01:06there in Camborne, but for some places, particularly where we've got freezing fog persisting and

01:10snow cover, temperatures won't rise above freezing all day. That leads us on to another

01:16very cold night on Friday night, widely clear skies leading to a widespread harsh frost.

01:24And also widespread freezing fog once again likely through the Midlands into eastern parts

01:28of England. Temperatures here dipping to minus 4, minus 5 Celsius, again minus double figures

01:35for some of the colder parts of Northern Britain. But for Northern Ireland into Wales and the

01:39south-west, a different start to the weekend here. We've got cloud moving in, outbreaks

01:44of rain once again falling onto cold surfaces, potential for some icy patches. But the rain,

01:50it's going to be light and patchy, it's going to be fizzling out later. It is a cloudier

01:53day in the west, clear skies further east unless you keep that stubborn fog. Then we've

02:00got high pressure building across the south, so mostly dry here and only slowly turning

02:05milder whilst it's a quicker return to mild air into Sunday for northern areas because

02:10of a south-westerly breeze strengthening and bringing outbreaks of rain to western Scotland

02:15along with a rapid thaw and quickly melting snow. So a big change into next week, high

02:22pressure in the south, much milder further north with the wind picking up and outbreaks

02:27of rain at times for western Scotland.