00:00Hello, the relative calm before the storm.
00:04The weather is going to be getting livelier
00:06over the next 24 hours.
00:07Storm Eowyn will arrive Thursday night and into Friday.
00:11Quite a bit of cloud covering the southeast of the UK today.
00:14Then there's a clearer zone.
00:15This band of cloud will provide a spell
00:18of wet and windy weather during Thursday.
00:20And then behind me, well, the cloud
00:22is brewing up a little bit.
00:24But if we look at what Storm Eowyn is at the moment,
00:27it's this weak area of low pressure.
00:30But it isn't going to stay like that.
00:31It's gradually going to intensify
00:33as we go through the next 24 hours
00:35and then really intensifies as it
00:38heads towards the Republic of Ireland during Thursday night
00:42and into Friday.
00:43Then crosses close to Northern Ireland and into Scotland.
00:46The strongest winds where the isobars are closest together
00:49in this zone, in its southern flank.
00:52That's where we're going to see damaging gusts of wind.
00:54But it is going to be a very windy day everywhere.
00:57Could be disruption right across the UK.
00:59More on that in a moment.
01:01First of all, though, let's get through this afternoon.
01:03Weak weather front still providing some rain and drizzle
01:05over parts of East Anglia and the southeast.
01:07Quite a gray, gloomy, murky, cold day here.
01:10Apart from that, though, many places dry.
01:12A few showers for North Wales, West Coast of Wales,
01:15West Coast of Scotland.
01:17But elsewhere, tending to brighten up a little bit.
01:19Some places seeing a little bit of sunshine.
01:22And the winds are, at the moment, pretty light.
01:25Temperatures still struggling.
01:26A touch below average in most locations,
01:28particularly across East Anglia and parts of the southeast
01:30where it's dank and murky.
01:32Struggling to get much above three or four Celsius.
01:34A bit of brightness elsewhere.
01:36Maybe six or seven degrees Celsius.
01:39As we go through this evening, that's
01:40dank and drizzly weather should tend
01:43to pull away from the southeast.
01:44A few showers keeping going in the west here and there
01:46around coast.
01:47But most places having a dry night with decent clear spells.
01:51And where the skies are clearest,
01:53northeast England, northeast Scotland,
01:55we will see a frost.
01:56And many towns and cities actually
01:57not far away from freezing to start Thursday morning.
02:01Fairly chilly old starts.
02:03But actually, temperatures starting to rise further west
02:06because that line of cloud I pointed out
02:08on the satellite picture earlier,
02:09that's this band of rain.
02:11That's moving in through tomorrow.
02:12Now, this will be pretty lively.
02:14It's going to bring a spell of rain
02:15across Northern Ireland fairly sharply in the morning.
02:18And then the winds picking up around the coasts of Wales,
02:21southwest England, and through the day
02:22along the south coast of England as well.
02:24So we've got Met Office yellow warning in place
02:27for those gusty winds.
02:28That rain will zip through, but it will be quite heavy,
02:32certainly for a time, and linger for much of the afternoon
02:35across northern England, parts of Scotland.
02:37Be a bit of snow mixed in as well over the hills,
02:39particularly over Scotland, but also northern England.
02:41Tends to clear through further south,
02:43so something a bit brighter and drier through the afternoon.
02:45But still fairly blustery, given the winds
02:48have been pretty light for a while.
02:49That will be quite noticeable.
02:51Temperature wise, 5, 6, 7, so just
02:53starting to creep up for many places, 9, 10
02:56across parts of the south and west.
02:57So it is going to turn a little milder.
02:59But as we go through Thursday evening,
03:03as that rain band clears away, we
03:05will see those temperatures falling away quite sharply.
03:08And then eyes out to the southwest.
03:11The clouds start to thicken up through the course
03:13of Thursday night.
03:14This is the first sign of Storm Eoin
03:18pushing into the far southwest of Ireland
03:20with some heavy rain during Thursday evening.
03:23But of course, it's not going to stop there.
03:24The storm system intensifying through Thursday
03:28and then tracking across parts of the Republic of Ireland,
03:31northern Ireland up towards Scotland,
03:33as I said, where these isobars are closest together.
03:35That's where the strongest winds are going to be.
03:37But it is going to be a very windy day right across the UK.
03:41The weather fronts providing the rain,
03:43they tend to scoot out of the way.
03:44So certainly across the south, much of Friday will be dry.
03:48The strongest winds likely through the first part of Friday
03:51across the south and during Thursday night,
03:53certainly across the Republic of Ireland.
03:55Let's put the wind gusts on as we go through Thursday night,
03:58really whipping up along the south coast of the Republic
04:01of Ireland, then into the west.
04:03There's darker colours there.
04:05But then as the storm system moves its way up
04:07to the western Scotland, some really strong gusts
04:10for northern Ireland, across the Irish Sea
04:13as well, and generally across northern England.
04:15So it's in this swathe that we're
04:17most concerned about the strength of the wind.
04:19And well, it stays pretty windy through Friday night.
04:23And as the storm system clears away,
04:24we'll see some of the strongest winds across northern Scotland
04:27actually develop during Friday night and into Saturday.
04:30So there are a number of Met Office warnings
04:33in place for the next few days.
04:35Amber warning issued this morning
04:37covering central and southern Scotland, northern Ireland,
04:39parts of northern England, and north Wales.
04:42Gusts here widely, 60 to 70 miles an hour inland.
04:46We could easily get to 80 miles an hour, possibly
04:49in exposed areas up to 90 miles an hour.
04:51Those kind of winds are going to cause structural damage,
04:53bring down power lines, potentially bring down trees.
04:55So expect power issues, maybe even disruption
04:58to mobile phone services.
05:00Certainly widespread travel disruption
05:02with these kind of gusts of wind.
05:04But it's not only in the amber warning area
05:07that we are concerned.
05:08Broader yellow wind warnings covering
05:10pretty much all of the UK.
05:12Those winds may be a little lighter elsewhere,
05:14but still potentially damaging, still
05:16likely to cause some disruption.
05:18There are also other warnings in place for rain.
05:21As we see, Thursday's rain followed by more rain
05:24on Friday for Wales, parts of southwest England.
05:26That does bring the potential for some flooding.
05:29And as storm Eowyn moves in, it will
05:32bring some snow over the hills of northern England for a time,
05:35and then lingering over the hills and mountains
05:37of northern Scotland.
05:38So we've got a snow warning in place here.
05:41And the wind warnings continue across parts of Scotland
05:45into Saturday.
05:47So as I said, plenty going on.
05:49Likes to be more wet and windy weather coming in on Sunday
05:51as well.
05:52Please do keep up to date with the forecast.
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