09 January - national forecast presented by Aidan McGivern
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00:00Hi there. Cold weather continues across the UK with widespread frosts and some icy patches
00:07around during the next few nights. Certainly on Thursday night there will be a continuation
00:12of wintry showers, sleet and snow showers coming into the north of Scotland, another
00:16few centimetres of snow building up in places. Also some showers tickling the east coast
00:21of the UK, one or two into Northern Ireland and North Wales. And where we see these showers
00:26and indeed where we don't see the showers there's the risk of slippery surfaces because
00:30it's going to be a widespread very cold night, minus 4, minus 5 Celsius widely, as low as
00:35minus 16 or minus 17 Celsius where we've got snow covered parts of Northern England and
00:41Scotland. There'll also be some freezing fog patches to wake up to Northern Ireland, parts
00:45of Wales and the Midlands, so a very wintry flavour once again. But to the south-west
00:51an area of rain is moving in, a milder start to Cornwall, but as that rain falls onto frozen
00:56surfaces there's the risk of icy patches in the south-west and across parts of Wales
01:00and a few more centimetres of snow above 150 metres, so predominantly Dartmoor. Eight degrees
01:06there in Camborne, but for some places, particularly where we've got freezing fog persisting and
01:10snow cover, temperatures won't rise above freezing all day. That leads us on to another
01:16very cold night on Friday night, widely clear skies leading to a widespread harsh frost.
01:24And also widespread freezing fog once again likely through the Midlands into eastern parts
01:28of England. Temperatures here dipping to minus 4, minus 5 Celsius, again minus double figures
01:35for some of the colder parts of Northern Britain. But for Northern Ireland into Wales and the
01:39south-west, a different start to the weekend here. We've got cloud moving in, outbreaks
01:44of rain once again falling onto cold surfaces, potential for some icy patches. But the rain,
01:50it's going to be light and patchy, it's going to be fizzling out later. It is a cloudier
01:53day in the west, clear skies further east unless you keep that stubborn fog. Then we've
02:00got high pressure building across the south, so mostly dry here and only slowly turning
02:05milder whilst it's a quicker return to mild air into Sunday for northern areas because
02:10of a south-westerly breeze strengthening and bringing outbreaks of rain to western Scotland
02:15along with a rapid thaw and quickly melting snow. So a big change into next week, high
02:22pressure in the south, much milder further north with the wind picking up and outbreaks
02:27of rain at times for western Scotland.