Met Office afternoon forecast March 23

The Met Office is forecasting heavy and thundery showers for some areas in the UK today, with the rain set to continue into next week.

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00:00Hello, here's your latest weather update from the Met Office. I'm Mark O'Britannia.

00:04We've got plenty of fine weather across the bulk of the UK as we go into the afternoon.

00:07A fair bit of cloud around, but some bright spells too, particularly towards the north and north-west.

00:11Just isolated showers towards the far north-east of the UK.

00:14But the focus for the heaviest showers will be across the south and south-east.

00:17A few of those could turn quite heavy, even with the old rumble of thunder in places,

00:21and we could see some localised impacts on the roads with a fair bit of spray, for example.

00:25Temperature-wise, though, not doing too badly at all, where we get the bright spells between those showers.

00:29Peaking around about 16 or 17 Celsius down towards the south-east.

00:3217 is 63 in Fahrenheit.

00:35Nearer average towards the north and north-west at 8 to 11 degrees.

00:38As we go into the evening and into the overnight period, the showers across the south-east will only slowly ease.

00:43Still a few heavy, even thundery ones around for a time this evening,

00:46but they will tend to die away as we go into the early hours,

00:49leaving a fair bit of low cloud as we go into the morning on Monday, with some hill fog in places.

00:54Clearer skies, though, towards the north and north-west, and it's here we'll see the lowest temperatures.

00:58Low enough for a fairly widespread rural frost, with temperatures certainly in some rural spots down to minus 3,

01:03even minus 4 Celsius in one or two places by the morning on Monday.

01:06Holding up, though, nearer to 7 to 9 degrees, and then generally frost-free across the south and south-east.

01:12So, on Monday, the low cloud across the south and south-east of the UK will gradually lift as we go through the morning,

01:17leaving a lot of fine weather across the UK on Monday, plenty of sunshine around,

01:21and notice, though, towards the north and north-west cloud gradually thickening,

01:25some outbreaks of rain moving in across the north and west of Scotland, eventually into parts of Northern Ireland too.

01:30Fairly breezy conditions are those outbreaks of rain moving, and some of the rain turning quite heavy by the end of the day.

01:36Temperature-wise, we're still above the seasonal average, pretty much UK-wide,

01:40up to 12 or 13 degrees up in the north, up to 14 or 15 Celsius towards the south and south-east.

01:4515 there in London, for example, is 59 in Fahrenheit.

01:49As we go into the evening and through the overnight period, we'll see a north-south split developing across the UK.

01:53Outbreaks of rain working their way in across many northern areas, becoming quite breezy too,

01:57but fairly mild with that wind of rain around.

01:59Whereas towards the south and south-east of the UK, it's a mostly fine night, some clear spells around,

02:03and we could see the odds of a pocket of frost by the morning on Tuesday.