Heavy rain in northern England and Wales. Sunshine in the northwest, with scattered showers in Scotland. Dry with sunny breaks in the southeast during the day, until the rain arrives by the evening. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 20/02/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.
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00:00 Hello again. Many of us will see a spell of wet and windy weather for a time today. In
00:04 fact, across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, we've already had some rain earlier
00:09 on today. It's all in association with a cold front that is pushing its way southeastwards
00:13 across the country, bringing some heavy bursts of rain across parts of Northern England and
00:18 Wales this afternoon. Ahead of this feature, towards the southeast, it's actually going
00:22 to stay mostly dry, at least during daylight hours, with potentially some bright or maybe
00:28 even sunny breaks at times. Further northwest behind the front, this is where we'll have
00:32 the best of the sunshine, but also a scattering of showers across parts of Scotland. Some
00:37 of these will be heavy and even perhaps thundery, some hails possible, maybe even some sleet
00:42 or snow over the highest ground. It will be a little bit fresher towards the northwest
00:46 behind the front, but in the southeast, temperatures still well above average for the time of year,
00:51 highs of around 13, 14, possibly even 15 Celsius. But in the southeast, although it is going
00:56 to be largely dry during the daytime, that rain is going to arrive here later on. So
01:01 a pretty damp, cloudy end to the day here. And then we see a swathe of very wet weather
01:06 feeding up from the southwest, spreading across much of the country as we go through the early
01:11 hours of Wednesday morning. Across parts of Scotland and other northern areas, it's actually
01:15 going to start the night pretty clear. And so we may see temperatures taking a bit of
01:20 a dip. We could see a touch of frost for a time across northern parts of Scotland. But
01:24 as this unsettled weather pushes its way in, we're going to see our temperatures lifting.
01:28 So many places, especially towards the southwest, a very mild start to the day on Wednesday.
01:33 Some places starting the day in double figures. But Wednesday, then a wet start for many of
01:39 us. The rain spreading across the whole of the country. Watch out for spray on the roads
01:43 as the rain is going to be pretty heavy. In fact, in parts of the southwest, some disruption
01:48 to travels quite likely and also some localised flooding also in parts of Wales too. But the
01:53 rain clears away towards the east as we go through the afternoon, with increasing amounts
01:58 of sunshine developing. So most places seeing some sunny skies as we go into the afternoon.
02:04 But there will also be a few showers to watch out for, particularly across western parts
02:07 of Scotland, maybe a few for Northern Ireland and Wales as well. Again, temperatures well
02:12 above average for the time of year, highs of around 13 or 14 Celsius. There will be
02:17 some strong winds around those, some strong gusty winds as the rain pushes its way across
02:21 the country, risk of gales and exposed spots. And so those winds will take the edge of those
02:25 temperatures later on. And as we go into Thursday, there's another system that's going to come
02:30 through and this has the potential to bring some more heavy and potentially disruptive
02:34 rain for a time. But this system also brings something else, much colder air behind it.
02:39 And so we are going to see our temperatures dropping. That being said, there's several
02:44 degrees above average for the time of year. So although it is going to get colder as we
02:48 go through the end of the week and towards the weekend, temperatures are really only
02:52 going to fall close to where we'd expect at this stage in February. There's going to be
02:56 some blustery, showery weather on Friday. Saturday looks a little bit drier. You can
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