20/12/2016 BBC Weather

country it's worth knowing the national forecast. Over now to

Tomasz. So, the weather's going to blow a

few cobwebs away in the coming days and maybe a few other things, as

well. How stormy is it going to get? For most of us probably not too

terrible. It is, however, going to be very nasty across parts of

Scotland on Friday. The clouds are racing across the Atlantic and we

will see a storm by the time we get to around about Friday and then

Friday night. At the moment we have a weather

front crossing the country, we have had dreadful weather in the

north-west, it was cold and raining in Northern Ireland and western

Scotland. This band of rain will be somewhere here by the end of the

night. Behind it a shot of cooler air, colder air and frequent

showers. This is what Wednesday looks like. Lots of showers around

across northern parts of the country, some of them with hail.

Maybe even thunder crossing parts of northern England into Wales. Notice

that the south is different here. We get a shot of slightly milder air

coming in from the south-west, double figure temperatures. To the

north some sunshine and showers. Those winds will keep on building

through the course of Wednesday and into Thursday. Notice how the skies

clear, Thursday morning will not be bad at all across the southern half

of the UK for many parts of eastern and southern England, it's going to

be the best day of the week, crisp sunshine about and western and

northern areas will get the showers. It will feel chilly. The forecast

remains a blustery day across northern areas.

Then Friday we have storm Barbara. It is going to bring a real blow to

north western parts of Scotland, an amber warning in force. How strong

will the winds be? Mainly up to 90mph, that's strong and then it

will be in exposed areas but also to the south of that, Northern Ireland

and northern England could see gusts of 60-70. Christmas Eve into

Christmas another storm, that one is more uncertain. We will update you

on that one tomorrow. This is the basic message, stay tuned to weather

forecasts, especially if you are travelling through northern parts of

the British Isles.