Met Office Friday Afternoon Weather Forecast 31/01/2025

31 January - national forecast presented by Honor Criswick

Transcript

00:00Hello there, good afternoon. Some of us woke up to quite a grey and damp start this morning

00:05but in the west it was much brighter and that's likely where we'll see the best of the sunshine

00:09today. So across Northern Ireland, southern parts of Wales, Devon and Cornwall, also the

00:13south west and just to the north east of Scotland too, that's where we're likely to see plenty

00:17of sunny spells. But across a large portion of the country that cloud tends to stick around,

00:22could also see some drizzly spots mainly across hilly areas. And temperatures are round about

00:28average for this time of the year, perhaps slightly milder across the south west, highs

00:32of around 9-10 Celsius. As we head through into the evening there's not much change really,

00:38still plenty of cloud around, particularly across eastern and south eastern parts of

00:42the country, once again turning quite grey and murky by the time we reach the morning.

00:46But there are going to be some clearer periods once again across Wales and parts of the south

00:50west, north eastern parts of Scotland. That's where temperatures are likely to dip away,

00:55could even see some patchy frost by the morning and we will start to see a little bit of a

00:58change just to the north west. Clouds spilling in here, turning rather windy and also some

01:03outbreaks of drizzle just to the west of Scotland by the time we reach Saturday morning. Then

01:08for the beginning of the weekend, once again there will be some sunshine in places, mainly

01:13through the middle part of the country, so north western parts of Wales, perhaps the

01:16north east of England and Scotland, also across the south west seeing the best of the brightness.

01:21But across the south east, similar to today, that's where the cloud is likely to stick

01:25around. Turning very windy from the north west too, a chance we could even see some

01:30gales in the very far north west of Scotland and starting to see some longer spells of

01:33rain just edge into western parts of Northern Ireland and north western parts of Scotland.

01:38And temperatures once again around about average, perhaps slightly milder across Northern Ireland

01:42and western parts of Scotland. Then for the second part of the weekend, we still have

01:48this frontal system to contend with. It doesn't edge in very far south eastwards, so it does

01:54largely remain stalled across the country by the time we reach Sunday morning. But behind

01:59it, we do have a ridge beginning to build, so we should start to see the west brighten

02:03up through the course of the afternoon. But for many, it's going to be quite a damp start

02:07on Sunday. But as this frontal system sticks around, it generally weakens, so largely just

02:13periods of cloud through the afternoon. And across the south east, likely to see a brighter

02:17day compared to the last couple of days too, so seeing some sunshine here. Also once again

02:22across western parts of Northern Ireland and western parts of Scotland. But for many, Sunday

02:27likely to be a rather cloudy day, also quite damp at times too. But once again, temperatures

02:33round about average for the beginning of February. That's everything from me. Don't forget for

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02:42that's it. Bye bye.