00:00Well, the good news is after the very murky weekend, it is going to be a bit brighter
00:04this week, but it's also going to be considerably wetter than it has been lately. These are
00:09the rainfall totals throughout the whole week, how they build up. And you can see that from
00:13around midweek, they start to build up quite rapidly across western areas, in particular
00:18parts of South Wales and the high ground further north could see 100mm or so by the end of
00:24the week. Not enough rain in itself to cause major flooding issues, but certainly much
00:29more rain than we've seen lately. Now, what's causing that? Well, the jet stream is firing
00:33up from midweek across the Atlantic and that will drive a series of low pressure systems
00:38towards the UK at first through Wednesday morning through the early hours, but then another
00:43area of low pressure pushes in through the early hours of Thursday morning to bring some very
00:47wet and windy weather. And then it turns colder to end the week, so it's going to be quite
00:53a different start to the beginning of the week. But before we get to Wednesday, there's some
00:58rain around, but also some brightness actually. On Tuesday across the south and east, it will
01:03be a relatively dry and fairly bright day. Now, further west, there will be some outbreaks
01:08of rain, relatively light at first, and then this main band pushes into Northern Ireland
01:13to end the day. But there will be very little in the way of sunshine for many western areas
01:18through Tuesday. But in any brightness, it will feel warmer tomorrow compared to today.
01:23We could see highs of around 14 to 15 degrees in the southeast, a little bit fresher elsewhere.
01:30And then it's this next area of low pressure that brings strengthening winds through the
01:34early hours of Wednesday, particularly across the far north, northwestern areas of Scotland.
01:39You can see those squeeze in the isobars. That's where we see the strong winds. And the weather
01:43front will be clearing the south and east through Wednesday morning. So perhaps a damp start
01:47of the day. But then it does brighten up. And for the bulk of England and Wales, actually,
01:52it's going to be a relatively dry day on Wednesday. But for Northern Ireland and Scotland, frequent
01:57showers will push in from the west. Some of these quite nasty. Temperatures, 9 to 13 degrees.
02:04That's around average for the time of year. But winds could reach 60 to 70 miles per hour
02:09across the far north for a time, enough to bring some disruption. So please stay tuned to
02:14that. Now, this next area of low pressure moves in for the early hours of Thursday. But this
02:18time we've got the warm sector moving in and we get really stuck in this warm sector across
02:23much of the country through Thursday. So it's going to be quite a widely wet day on Thursday,
02:28probably the wettest day on the week of the week for most of us, particularly for western
02:34areas. These areas of South Wales, the Lake District up towards the northwest, the high ground
02:40of Scotland as well into Thursday morning. It does slowly start to clear this main band
02:45of rain into the afternoon. Behind it, it will turn colder. So that rain will start to fall
02:50as snow over the high ground of Scotland through Thursday afternoon. But heavy rain still persisting
02:56elsewhere across the country into Thursday afternoon. Temperatures, it's actually relatively
03:00mild, 13 to 12 degrees quite widely where we see this warm sector. But it's going to be
03:05pretty wet and cloudy in these areas. And then it turns colder to end the week. Quite
03:11a notable change in the air mass on Thursday night into Friday will bring a very different
03:16feel to the weather by the end of the week. Considerably colder to start the day. We are
03:21expecting a patchy frost, particularly in sheltered areas. Sheltered because the winds will be quite
03:26strong on Friday as well. Now, the rain will continue to move in from the north and west. It's
03:35some of these falling as snow to around 200 metres. That's relatively low for the time of year, but
03:41also a mix of hail in there as well. And that brings a risk of ice too through Friday morning
03:46as well as into Saturday morning. The south and east will fare the best with the drier weather. But
03:52wherever you are, it's going to be feeling chilly. Quite widely will just be in those single figures
03:56by day, which is below average. Now, the general theme remains unsettled into the weekend,
04:02but we are expecting at least a brief ridge of high pressure to bring some more settled
04:07weather in for Saturday. But the next air of low pressure is not far away, just in time
04:13for Mother's Day, unfortunately. But we'll be keeping you up to date with the forecast for
04:17the weekend, of course, throughout this week. So don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel.
04:22See you again soon. Bye-bye.
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