Front continuing to move eastwards through this afternoon, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds to the southeast. Behind the front, to the north and west, becoming drier and clearer, but also turning colder. – This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 22/02/24. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Annie Shuttleworth.
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00:00 Hello there. After a wet few days there is some dry weather on the cards to end the week
00:04 and into the weekend for some of us. But through the rest of the afternoon there's still some
00:08 very heavy rain to come. The heaviest rain through this morning you can see on the radar
00:13 has been across Wales and into the south west. That band of rain has pushed eastwards over
00:18 the past few hours and behind it we are seeing some very heavy showers still developing across
00:23 Wales into Northern Ireland and north western Scotland. But it is generally turning drier
00:28 across western areas as that band of very heavy rain pushes into the south coast and
00:32 into the south east through the rest of the day. That band of heavy rain is a weather
00:37 front. It marks the difference between milder air ahead of it and colder air behind it.
00:44 So once the rain does clear it will start to feel colder as temperatures fall much closer
00:48 to the seasonal average for this time of year. We get a westerly breeze developing across
00:53 the west. So that will bring clearer and drier conditions to north and western areas through
00:57 the rest of the afternoon but we will still see some showers. Across the south and east
01:01 though that rain will persist turning quite heavy through rush hour. There's rain and
01:06 wind warnings in force across the south and east so there will probably be some travel
01:09 disruption and some tricky travelling conditions. However it will be turning colder from the
01:15 west so temperatures will be much closer to seasonal average by the afternoon. That leads
01:20 us into a much colder night than recently but with the strength of the breeze any frost
01:24 should be fairly limited by tomorrow morning. It will also drag in some showers across western
01:30 areas, parts of Wales, northern England and parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland seeing
01:33 the most frequent showers through tonight. Across the east though it should stay largely
01:37 dry once that rain does clear this evening. So it will be a colder start tomorrow. It
01:42 could be down as low as -3 in the north, -1 in the south but as I said the strength of
01:47 the breeze should limit how much frost we see. But it will certainly feel colder than
01:51 recently to start the day. There should be some early sunshine though in the south and
01:55 east across the morning but showers will push in from the west reaching eastern areas by
02:01 the afternoon. In the west though the showers will be most frequent. These could merge into
02:05 longer spells of rain and bring a risk of hail and thunder through the afternoon. So
02:09 potentially some fairly unpleasant showers. In between the showers though there will still
02:14 be some decent sunshine most long lived across the east. And it's not going to feel too bad
02:18 in the sunshine despite the cooler temperatures. Highs of 7 or 8 are around average for the
02:23 time of year. Those showers will die down as we head into Saturday morning so it will
02:28 be a much drier start to the weekend though we could see some fairly extensive mist and
02:31 fog developing. You can find more details on your full weekend forecast with our latest
02:36 update on YouTube. See you later.
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