Some very wet weather is expected across parts of the UK during the next 24 hours or so with heavy rain likely to bring hazardous travelling conditions and the risk of localised flooding, especially across parts of Wales where over four inches of rain may fall before the end of Saturday. This is all thanks to a developing low pressure system pushing north-eastwards bringing some mild and very windy weather on its southern flank whilst colder air lurks to the north.
It’s a bright and chilly start to Friday in many regions with a frost across northern regions along with some showers which are falling as sleet and snow over the mountains. However, a veil of cloud is already spreading in from the southwest across much of Ireland, England and Wales ahead of outbreaks of rain now moving into the southwest. This rain will push north-eastwards today, becoming heavy and persistent across parts of Wales and northern England, but towards southeast England the rain will be lighter and patchier although it will become increasingly windy here with a risk of coastal gales. That rain will spread into parts of Northern Ireland and southern Scotland later, but to the north and northwest it will remain sunnier with scattered showers. Despite the sunshine it will be rather chilly with maximums here in the range of 4°C to 7°C, but across much of central, southern and south-eastern England it will be mild with values as high as 15°C or 16°C in places.
It remains mild and windy in the south tonight with heavy and persistent rain continuing across southern Ireland, Wales and northern England where the totals will be rising rapidly. Meanwhile, much of Scotland and Northern Ireland will remain clearer and colder with scattered showers in the north and west. The weekend starts off in a similar fashion but that rain band will slowly sink it’s way south-eastwards later tomorrow allowing those clearer and colder conditions in the north to follow on, reaching most areas by Sunday.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER
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