00:00Hi there and welcome to the Met Office forecast for the week ahead.
00:04The temperature got down to minus 18.9 Celsius in Alta Hara, northwest Scotland on Saturday
00:09morning just 48 hours later and that temperature had risen by almost 30 degrees on Monday morning
00:17in the same location and it's northern Scotland where we'll see the warmest weather through
00:21the week ahead with a strong west to southwesterly breeze, further south with less of a strong
00:28wind so temperatures will be closer to average and in fact overnight sometimes it will be
00:32rather chilly, certainly a cold start for the southeast on Tuesday morning, 1 or 2 Celsius.
00:38Clear spells though and clear spells for eastern Scotland and northeast England, a lot of cloud
00:42elsewhere, that cloud covering the hills of Wales and the Pennines bringing some outbreaks
00:45of drizzle, 1 or 2 spots of drizzle through the Midlands and East Anglia and it turns
00:49generally cloudy later in the afternoon so a grey day for many, 8 to 12 Celsius the warmest
00:57air towards the far northwest of the UK and that's where it's going to turn increasingly
01:01windy later Tuesday, gales for exposed locations ahead of this frontal system but further south
01:07light winds under an area of high pressure which is building north, although high pressure
01:12doesn't always mean sunny skies, in fact it is a gloomy start to the day on Wednesday,
01:17widespread low cloud, mist and fog particularly for parts of central and southeast England.
01:24There skies do brighten actually into the afternoon, some sunshine appears away from
01:27the northwest of Scotland where it's continuing to be windy with outbreaks of rain and under
01:32those clear skies through central parts of the UK there will be a touch of frost and
01:36a few fog patches to start on Thursday but we've got a lot of low cloud to the southeast
01:42and to the northwest of Scotland, another breezy day here, 10 Celsius with showery rain
01:48in the far northwest, otherwise generally dry, some sunshine to be had but in that
01:54fine slice across the UK it is becoming narrowed with cloud arriving not only from the northwest
01:59because of this weather front carried through by the jet stream but also from a change in
02:04the wind direction further south, low cloud is moving north across the UK so that by Friday
02:10morning most places going to be grey once again, a lot of hill fog in the west and the
02:15north, outbreaks of showery rain for Scotland and Northern Ireland along with a strong breeze,
02:2011 Celsius in the northwest but as those winds change further south it's actually going to
02:24turn a bit colder once again and it is going to be a chilly weekend in the south and southeast
02:30because high pressure is drifting off to the east and we're drawing up some colder air
02:35from the continent. Now meanwhile we've got a weather front moving into the far west of
02:40the UK, that's going to keep things a little milder for Ireland and much of Scotland but
02:45it's also going to bring later in the weekend some outbreaks of rain, that rain fizzling
02:49out because the high pressure over the continent tends to keep things fine albeit increasingly
02:55cold at the start of next week, not quite as cold as it's expected to be through the
03:02weekend across North America, these northerly winds will bring unusually cold air across
03:07Canada and into the United States, I imagine there will be a lot of snow associated with
03:12this as well. Why is that relevant for the UK's weather? Well once that cold air moves
03:17into the Atlantic early next week it will clash with much warmer air and that temperature
03:23contrast will fire up the jet stream which will then send much more unsettled weather
03:29to the UK later next week. We'll keep you updated on all of that right here on our YouTube
03:35channel. Bye bye.
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