Yet again the main meteorological themes for the weekend are wind and rain but this weekends weather should at least be a little less extreme than recent weekends. Alex Deakin has the details.
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00:00Hello. Another weekend forecast where the main features of the weather will be wind
00:05and rain. But unlike pretty much every weekend in February, neither look to be particularly
00:10extreme or severe at this stage. Having said that, any extra rain falling after such a
00:16wet February could cause some further problems. And there will be more rain this weekend,
00:20particularly in the west on Saturday. Parts of the east staying largely dry. That rain
00:25likely to pep up on Saturday night. And it's also going to turn windy through the day and
00:30night during Saturday. It stays blustery into Sunday with some sunshine, but also some heavy
00:36showers coming in too. Let's take a look at the bigger picture, because as you might imagine
00:41with this kind of forecast, it's low pressure that's dominating. It's this developing feature
00:46actually out towards the northwest of the UK that we need to keep an eye on. Heading
00:50up towards the northwest, but the isobars pinching together as a result and weather
00:55fronts moving in. Now, this first weather front's just bringing some patchy rain across
01:00parts of the east for a time on Saturday morning. But once that's gone, as I said at the start,
01:05large parts of eastern Britain for most of Saturday will be dry. Not much rain across
01:09the southwest either. But that weather front, that second weather front coming in, will
01:13be bringing more and more rain across western Scotland and Northern Ireland by the afternoon.
01:18And eventually it'll turn up in western parts of England and Wales. And as that arrives,
01:22the winds also start to increase. Some brighter spells across the east come Saturday afternoon
01:28perhaps, and it is turning milder. It's been a cold week. The temperature's by and large
01:31in single figures, double digits possible. And if we see any brighter skies, well, we
01:36could even get into the teens in a few places. That weather front really peps up on Saturday
01:40night. Some brighter colours you'll notice there, particularly over hills and mountains
01:44in the west. So that is something we need to keep a close eye on, of course, because
01:48it was such a wet February, the ground is still saturated and any extra rain falling
01:52could cause some further issues. But that cold front does then move through and then
01:57we're left with sunshine and showers for Sunday. The showers like to be heavy and blustery
02:02with the winds swinging in from the west. That's where we'll see most of the showers.
02:07Some though will get to the east and those showers will be heavy and possibly thundery
02:11in places as well. But chiefly, they'll be of rain, perhaps hail at times. It will be
02:15blustery, which means the showers will at least be moving through. Gusty winds on and
02:20off throughout Saturday night and Sunday. And again, reasonably mild, certainly milder
02:24than it has been for much of this week with temperatures single figures across Scotland,
02:28Northern Ireland, but double digits maybe into the teens across parts of the south.
02:34Getting the sunshine out of the wind, it shouldn't feel too bad, but those showers will never
02:38be too far away. So a mixed picture this weekend. Yes, there's more wet and windy weather to
02:42come, but hopefully not as extreme or as severe as many of the weekends through February.
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