Blustery towards the northwest, with rain affecting western parts of Scotland. Largely dry but cloudy elsewhere, with the best of any cloud breaks across parts of northeast England, northeast Scotland and Northern Ireland. Mild across Scotland and Northern Ireland but chilly across England and Wales - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 17/01/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Burkill.
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00:00Hello again, very good evening to you. Lots of dry weather to come as we go through much
00:05of this weekend, but we are actually going to see our temperatures dropping a little
00:08bit. We still have high pressure to the southeast of us and it's this that's leading to the
00:13largely calm picture that we have currently, but with that we have some of our air coming
00:18in from the continent and that's a cold direction at the moment and so that's why we're going
00:23to see our temperatures dropping through the weekend. But looking at the details and a
00:27bit of rain across the far north-west of Scotland through the evening, that clears
00:31away and then it's a largely dry night, but a largely cloudy night for many of us. Limited
00:37clear breaks, perhaps across parts of northern Scotland there will be some clear skies and
00:41a few breaks elsewhere, but most places having a lot of cloud and with that there could be
00:46some drizzly rain in a few places too. Despite the cloud, temperatures are actually going
00:51to drop relatively low. I mentioned the cold air that we have coming across us and so that's
00:55going to lead to many places across England and Wales in particular dropping close to
01:00freezing if not a little bit below in some places, particularly over higher ground, so
01:04a touch of frost is possible. Also the far north of Scotland where we do get some clearer
01:08skies could see a touch of frost here as well. So a bit of a chilly, cloudy start to the
01:13day for many of us on Saturday. With that though, as we go through the day I am expecting
01:18a bit more sunshine than we saw through Friday, especially across, well, northern parts of
01:23Scotland, perhaps parts of northern Northern Ireland and also northern England, Wales,
01:27south-west England. Here we should have some decent breaks developing as the winds come
01:31from the south and as they bounce over any higher ground to the lee of high ground downwind.
01:37That's where we have the greatest chance of seeing some lengthy sunny breaks. Across central
01:41south-eastern parts of the country, here it is going to stay fairly cloudy and with that
01:47again there could be some drizzle around and with temperatures around if not a bit below
01:51freezing in some places, some of that drizzle could be frozen so we could get some snow
01:55grains in places as well. Like I said then, a chilly feel to things, temperatures a little
01:59bit lower than on Friday for many of us, markedly so across northern areas where they could
02:04be about 4-5 degrees lower than it was on Friday. So a chillier feel here and feeling
02:10even chillier still towards the south where temperatures are a fair few degrees below
02:14average for the time of year. Later on as we go through Saturday evening and overnight,
02:19not a huge amount changes. There will still be quite a lot of cloud towards central southern
02:23parts, perhaps a bit more cloud spilling a bit further northwards into north Wales and
02:27northern England but still some clearer skies across parts of northern England and north
02:31Wales and some clear skies across many parts of Scotland as well and some for parts of
02:36northern Ireland too. There is a front coming in from the west but it's not a particularly
02:39strong one and it's not making a huge amount of progress but we could see some rain pushing
02:44into the far west of northern Ireland by the early hours of Sunday morning and perhaps
02:48towards the outer Hebrides as well. When we get the clear skies across parts of northern
02:52England and north Wales in particular, likely to turn quite frosty and there could be some
02:56fog, some freezing fog patches first thing on Sunday morning but similar to Saturday
03:01morning really despite the cloudier skies towards the south it is still going to be
03:04quite chilly and a touch of frost is quite possible here. Through Sunday itself then
03:09this front in the west does continue to gradually make its way eastwards but like I said it's
03:14quite a weak feature so just a bit of rain pushing initially across parts of northern
03:18Ireland feeding a bit into western Scotland and then there may be some rain reaching far
03:23western parts of England and Wales later and overnight into Monday but not a huge amount.
03:28For many it is going to be a similar-ish date to Saturday really, some cloudy skies, a bit
03:34of brightness particularly to the north of any higher ground but again where the clouds
03:38thick enough we could have some drizzly rain and even some snow grains again in a few spots.
03:43Those look similar, a little bit lower than Saturday for some places and when you're stuck
03:47under that cloud with that cold air that we have across us it is going to feel pretty
03:51chilly indeed. Now looking further ahead and as we go into the beginning of next week like
03:56I said that front makes its way across but it makes slow progress, won't bring a huge
04:00amount of rain for many of us. We are still under the influence of the high pressure but
04:04it is drifting away towards the east and later on next week there is the potential for some
04:09more unsettled weather to push its way in. So you will want to keep on top of that. Whatever
04:14you are up to this weekend though I do hope you have a great one. Bye bye.