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Heavy rain has led to road closures and affected rail travel in some parts of the country as weather warnings remain in place.A Met Office yellow alert for rain in Perth and Kinross, the Stirling area and parts of north-east Scotland is in force until midnight and warns there may be flooding.Perth and Kinross Council said many roads in the area were closed due to flooding as of 6am on Friday including the A94 between A93 Meiklour crossroads and A923 Bendochy crossroads, and the Queen’s Bridge in Perth.On the railways, ScotRail said speed restrictions will be in place on the Inverness to Edinburgh/Glasgow/Aberdeen, the Glasgow to Dumfries, the Stranraer to Ayr/Kilmarnock and the Glasgow to Mallaig/Oban lines.

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00:00Hi there and welcome to the latest weekend weather update from the Met Office.
00:04Cold and wet for some places this weekend, a lot of cloud for many as low pressure sticks
00:11close to the southwest of England, albeit a gradually filling low.
00:16But it will still bring some wet and windy weather to the southwest during the morning,
00:21especially with spells of rain rotating around that low pressure into parts of Devon, Cornwall,
00:26Dorset, Somerset, Wales as well, seeing some very showery outbreaks of rain.
00:31We'll also see a continuation of the persistent rain into eastern Scotland.
00:36Significant rain below 300 metres, significant snow above 300 metres, 20 to 30 centimetres,
00:42building up over the Grampians, for example, with a strong wind.
00:45Coastal gales in the far northeast and coastal gales, at least at first, towards the far southwest.
00:51In between, there will be some drier weather, a few spots of rain always possible just about anywhere,
00:58but to the best of any dry and bright weather, western Scotland, parts of East Anglia, some cloud breaks,
01:04but most places grey and with a brisk wind, it's going to feel unpleasant,
01:10especially where we've got those spells of rain in the southwest,
01:12and an increasingly cold feel towards the northeast of the UK.
01:18Well, these blues pushing in with cold air across Scandinavia extending into northeastern parts of the country,
01:24especially eastern Scotland, but we still have low pressure towards the southwest,
01:29and that low will bring further spells of rain in on Saturday night and as we begin Sunday.
01:35One initial band of rain pushing through northern England, much of Northern Ireland, central and southern Scotland.
01:41That then ends up, once again, with some persistent wet weather across parts of central and eastern Scotland.
01:48Meanwhile, another band of rain swings back into the southwest early on,
01:52and that once again moves through central parts, followed by some very lively showers across the south and southwest.
01:59Once more, not much brightness out there, but if I was to suggest a place for some cloud breaks,
02:04it would be western Scotland, perhaps Northern Ireland, but for the vast majority, it's another grey day.
02:09And with that cold air increasingly arriving into the northeast, it's going to feel particularly cold in the east of Scotland with the brisk wind.
02:18Temperatures only a touch below average in the northeast, closer to average in the south,
02:23although with the wind and those shallery outbreaks of rain, once again, not feeling very pleasant,
02:28but at least there will be some drier spells here and there through the weekend.
02:32Now, for all the latest updates, you can check our YouTube channel, but for now, that's all for me. Bye-bye.
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