A mostly cloudy picture for the UK this evening and into overnight, with a weak weather front pushing south, bringing patchy rain south-westwards across much of England, Wales and south east Scotland. Northwestern Scotland will have a greater chance of seeing clear skies, with frost likely across much of this area. Feeling quite chilly - This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the evening of 16/03/2025. Bringing you today’s weather forecast is Marco Petagna.
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00:00Hello, here's your latest weather update from the Met Office. I'm Marco Pitania. We've got
00:04plenty of fine and settled weather across the UK at the moment, all thanks to high pressure
00:08dominating. But with that high pressure, there's quite a bit of cold air trapped below it.
00:11But over the next few days, notice the high starts to drift away towards the east and
00:14south-east of the UK. That opens the door to a much milder south-easterly flow. And
00:19towards the end of the week, that could also allow weather fronts to start approach from
00:22the south and west, introducing more unsettled weather by the end of the working week.
00:26Looking at things in more detail now for the overnight period, and we've got a weak weather
00:29front pushing south and westwards across England and Wales, bringing a fair bit of
00:33cloud here, some patchy rain as we go into the overnight period. The clearest skies tonight
00:37generally reserved for the north and west of Scotland, and here we'll see the coldest
00:40temperatures too, dipping below freezing here, giving a widespread frost. In fact, by the
00:44morning on Monday, we could see temperatures in some rural spots down to minus five Celsius.
00:49Across England and Wales though, with more cloud around, the frost here will be more
00:52patchy, and certainly in towns and cities, temperatures just about holding above freezing.
00:56As we go into Monday itself then, the sunshine towards the north-west will tend to fade as
01:00we go through the day. This cloud starts to increase from the south-east, and generally
01:04speaking, across many southern and western parts of the UK, there will be a fair bit
01:07of cloud around, still a chance of a few showers down towards the south-west of England, and
01:11the clearest skies going into the afternoon are likely to develop across the east and
01:15south-east of England as we start to import some drier air from the near continent. Despite
01:19the sunshine though, it's going to be quite a chilly day once again. South to south-easterly
01:24flow, only lifting temperatures to around about nine or ten Celsius at best, perhaps
01:28peaking down towards the south-east very locally at 11 degrees, 11 would be 52 in Fahrenheit.
01:33As we go into the evening and through the overnight period, the cloud will tend to push
01:36away north-westwards as drier air moves in from the near continent, so all parts seeing
01:40much clearer skies as we go into Monday night. But we will pay the price though for those
01:45clearer skies turning quite frosty across many parts by Tuesday morning. Notice those
01:49blue colours on the map. Certainly across parts of Scotland, we could get down to minus
01:52seven, even minus eight Celsius in one or two rural spots by Tuesday, whereas across
01:56the south, certainly below freezing in the more rural spots.
02:00As for Tuesday itself then, after that cold and frosty start, plenty of sunshine is expected,
02:04pretty much wall-to-wall sunshine in fact across many parts of the UK. Just a small
02:08chance of a shower with some thicker cloud up towards the far north-east, but elsewhere
02:11with that sunshine, again not feeling too bad out and about, despite a bit of a south-easterly
02:16breeze, with temperatures peaking again at nine to 11 Celsius, 11 down towards the south
02:21there is 52 in Fahrenheit. As we go through the rest of the week, there will be plenty
02:25of sunshine for a time, but towards the end of the week, as I say, low pressure could
02:28approach from the south and west, introducing more unsettled conditions.
02:31That's pretty much it from me, but of course you can keep tuned to The Met Office Forecast
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02:39take care for now, bye bye.