A cold afternoon for most, with winds continuing to bring cold arctic air to the UK. Wintry showers expected across eastern and southern parts of the country with sunnier spells across Northern Ireland, northwestern Scotland and parts of the southwest later in the afternoon. - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the afternoon of 12/03/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
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00:00Welcome to your afternoon update from the Met Office. Cold wind continues to
00:04blow and continues to blow some wintry showers around us. You know a few
00:08flurries of sleet and snow here and there. Out to the northwest of the UK
00:14there's a chunky area of high pressure and that eventually will be building in
00:18but for the time being we've got low pressure nearby and the winds going
00:21around that high drawing down the air from the Arctic hence why we have the
00:26chill. Plenty of showers packing in across the east and a clump of showers
00:30earlier on brought some sleet and snow across parts of southern England. Still a
00:33few flurries into the early afternoon mostly over the hills at lower levels
00:38chiefly of rain. The showers further north over northern England, southern
00:41Scotland, moving down towards the Midlands and parts of East Anglia. They
00:45will be a wintry mix so hail, sleet and mostly rain but the odd flake of snow
00:51is still over the higher ground. Feels cold in that wind despite some good
00:55spells of sunshine across parts of western Scotland, Northern Ireland, some
00:58breaks in the cloud across southern England and South Wales too. Seeing the
01:02temperatures climb up to nine maybe up to double figures but it's certainly a
01:06lot colder than it was at this time last week and those northerly winds while
01:11bringing a real chill to the east. Six or seven that's what the thermometer will
01:15read but it'll feel closer to freezing when you add on that brisk and chilly
01:19wind. Which will continue to feed some showers in across these central and
01:23eastern parts well into the evening time and then as temperatures fall
01:27wherever we've got these showers it could lead to things turning quite icy
01:30as we go through the night and for first thing on Thursday morning. Further west
01:35many places staying dry and some long clear spells will allow frost across
01:40parts of western Scotland and Northern Ireland. Many towns and cities just about
01:44holding up above freezing but certainly feeling colder still first thing across
01:49the eastern and temperatures dropping down below freezing in many rural spots
01:52which means these showers which will still have that wintry mix, sleet, hail, a
01:57little bit of snow first thing in the morning making for some pretty icy
02:00conditions across parts of southeast Scotland and eastern England. The showers
02:04will develop again through the day some getting into the Midlands perhaps parts
02:07of East Wales, a few more across northern Scotland but a good part of
02:11Scotland, Northern Ireland staying dry tomorrow, most of Wales as well. There'll be some
02:15breaks in the cloud revealing a bit of sunshine. The wind's not quite as strong
02:19tomorrow but still feeding the air down from the north so temperatures will
02:23again be below average and particularly on those North Sea coast when the
02:27showers come along in that breeze it will again feel pretty chilly for the
02:32time of year. Highs of 8, 9 maybe again double figures where we see a little bit
02:36of sunshine. Still a few more of those showers drifting in, some heavy ones
02:39possible, still some hail and some sleet mixed in and then things turn a bit
02:44wetter across the northwest during Thursday evening but that high pressure
02:47will topple in to bring many of us plenty of dry weather into the weekend.
02:51For more on that you want to be watching our 10-day trends. Alex Berker will be
02:55recording that. That'll be available on Wednesday afternoon on our YouTube
02:59channel.