24/12/2015 BBC Weather

A very merry evening to you. I'm sure it is quite merry for some of

us by now. First things first, let's see where Santa is. We've been

tracking Santa with our weather radar. He's encountering a head wind

here, south of the North Pole. I can confirm, he's on his way. Presents

for some of us, I'm sure, on the way too. The weather is on the festive

side across Scotland. We have snow showers. Even iciness on the roads.

But for many of us, it's a clear night. Fair weather for Santa. We

have rain nudging into the south-west of England by the time we

get to early on Christmas Day morning. This weather system here is

going to bring mild and wet conditions to the southern half of

the UK. It's going to be a very mild Christmas Day. But not for

everybody. Let's look at the morning, this is 10am, perhaps you

might be going out for a stroll. It's not a pretty picture across the

south-west of England. 13 degrees. It's raining, rain across central,

southern England. At this stage, more crisp, across northern parts of

the country. From the Midlands northwards and across Scotland a

touch of frost with one or two flakes of snow. For some of us

across the Highlands it is going to be just about a white Christmas.

Through the course of Christmas Day, this band of wet weather's going to

move further north. Eventually it will engulf Wales, moving into

northern England and by the evening hours, it is going to reach southern

parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Actually across the

southern Uplands of Scotland over the hills we could see snow. Cold

weather rain falls tomorrow afternoon. To the south it is a very

mild Christmas, around 14 degrees Celsius. On a more serious note, we

have an amber warning from the Met Office for heavy rain. It's

approaching the UK during the course of Boxing Day, making a bee line for

north-western parts of the British Isles. Certainly Cumbria. That's

where the warning is in force. The rain could cause problems here.

Impacts here from flooding. To the south, it's going to be dry and

exceptionally mild, 15 degrees. Colder in Scotland, six or seven. By

the time we get to Sunday, southerly winds push some of that mild air all

the way further north. Temperatures rising across Scotland up to around

about 10 degrees Celsius. That's about it. You're up to date with the

weather. There's one more thing to say, I hope you have a