Storm Jorge, named by the Spanish Met Service, arrives this weekend. Initially, the rain during Friday and Saturday is of particular concern. Then the rain clears but the wind strengthens. Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern has all the details.
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00:00Hello and welcome to the Met Office forecast for the weekend. Plenty to talk about once
00:05again this weekend. Unsettled weather in place across the UK. Initially on Friday and the
00:10start of Saturday, it will be wet weather that is the main concern. Then once the persistent
00:16rain is out of the way during Saturday morning, our attention turns to the strengthening winds
00:21Saturday afternoon, Saturday night and the start of Sunday. But after the early persistent
00:27wet weather, well actually it will turn much brighter. So it's not a complete wash out
00:31through the weekend. There will be sunny spells combined with frequent wintry showers. Like
00:36I say, a lot going on this weekend. But it's all down to one area of low pressure. Storm
00:43Jorge, named by the Spanish Met Service because of impacts likely across parts of Spain. It
00:49will also bring significant impacts to Ireland because of the wind and initially some wet
00:55weather Friday into the start of the weekend, especially across western parts of the UK.
01:00Now once these weather fronts are out of the way, the skies do brighten but the winds pick
01:05up Saturday afternoon. This squeeze on the isobars bringing strengthening winds, gales
01:09through Northern Ireland, Irish Sea coast, Southern Scotland, much of England and Wales
01:15Saturday night and into the start of Sunday. It will also drag in cold air but initially,
01:21well any snowfall really confined early Friday to north-east England, southern Scotland and
01:26then it's the wet weather that is of most concern Friday into the start of Saturday.
01:30Some very heavy rainfall, Northern Ireland, parts of western England as well as Wales
01:35and the rainfall once again as in previous episodes of wet weather, heaviest over western
01:41hills. 20-30mm widely across Northern Ireland, western parts of England as well as Wales
01:47and the risk of more than that over some higher ground and especially South Wales, an area
01:53of significant concern at the moment because of the already saturated conditions here.
02:00The worst of the rainfall moves through during Saturday morning and after that wet start
02:05across eastern parts of England, some heavy rainfall for a time. Skies do brighten, the
02:10sun comes through from the west but also we're going to see showers spreading in. So breathe
02:15in between systems and then some heavy downpours returning into much of Scotland, Northern
02:20Ireland, western parts of England as well as Wales and with cold air pushing in behind
02:24the early rainfall, we're expecting some snow out of these showers, mainly over the higher
02:29ground above around 300m or so but also some bright weather in between the showers. However,
02:35it will feel cold in that strengthening wind, temperatures by Saturday afternoon around
02:415-9c but on the wind significantly colder than that. That wind continues to strengthen
02:47during Saturday night, a swathe of gales pushing into Northern Ireland, Irish Sea coast, Cardigan
02:53Bay coast there as well as much of inland parts of England, Wales, southern Scotland.
02:5850mph gusts likely fairly widely, 60 or even 70 around some particularly exposed coasts
03:04and hills. A blustery start then to Sunday, that wind could cause impacts, yellow warnings
03:10in force for that but also we're going to see further showers, especially rain showers
03:16for southern parts of Wales, southern counties of England and further north for the rest
03:20of Wales into Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland we're likely to see some
03:24perhaps sleet and hail showers to relatively low levels, snow over the hills accumulating
03:29above around 300m. However, central and eastern England brightening up through Sunday, sunny
03:35spells predominantly and just one or two showers here. It will feel cold though again
03:40on Sunday with that brisk wind blowing, the wind moderating through the day but nevertheless
03:45if you're out in the wind it's not going to feel like 7-11c, it's going to feel much colder
03:50than that. So plenty to watch out for over the weekend and of course you can stay up
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