17 March - National weather forecast presented by Aidan McGivern.
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00:00Hi there, the weather will turn sunnier and a little warmer during the next few days but
00:04before we get there, it's a cloudy and relatively cold start to the new week with a lot of relatively
00:11low cloud across the UK for Monday afternoon. The thickest cloud will remain across the
00:16south and southwest with a few light showers here. Showers towards the northeast tending
00:20to fade away and brighter skies beginning to emerge by the end of the afternoon into
00:25some eastern and northern parts. But for most it's going to stay cloudy and it's going
00:30to feel on the cold side, particularly where we've got that brisk wind in the south and
00:34southwest and the east coast as well will feel chilly with the wind coming from the
00:39North Sea. But that wind is going to import increasingly dry and clear air overnight with
00:45those clear skies becoming widespread into the north and east of the UK, later into the
00:51south as well. Now in the south we keep that breeze so it's going to stay frost free here
00:56and Northern Ireland we keep a lot of cloud but elsewhere a widespread frost forming some
01:01parts of northern UK seeing temperatures below minus 5 Celsius. A chilly but bright start
01:07to the day for Scotland, northern, central and eastern England. Plenty of blue skies
01:11developing across the bulk of Britain but for Northern Ireland we keep cloudier skies
01:17although some sunshine starts to emerge into the east towards the end of the day. It's
01:23going to still feel relatively cold in the wind but out of the wind with the increasing
01:28spells of sunshine and temperatures a little higher compared with Monday feeling a bit
01:31more pleasant. Top temperature 11, 12 or even 13 Celsius in one or two spots. Now overnight
01:38on Tuesday again we see clear skies, we see that breeze and as a result temperatures are
01:43going to fall away from windward coasts but as we go through Wednesday, Thursday and
01:50indeed into the start of Friday we're going to continue to see southerly or southeasterly
01:55winds bring milder and sunnier weather across the whole of the UK but eventually by the
02:00end of the week this area of low pressure will come into play bringing increasing spells
02:04of showers in from the southwest leading to a wetter weekend for many of us.