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Good evening. This time yesterday, Matt was telling you | 0:00:03 | 0:00:06 | |
about our first major storm of the season, which has been named Abigail. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:10 | |
We're naming, this season, | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
for those storms which we expect to have a significant impact on the UK. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:16 | |
And so we're firming up on details and since yesterday | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
the warning has been escalated to an amber by the Met Office. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
You can see how ferocious that low pressure looks towards the north | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
and west of Scotland - really tightly-packed isobars - | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
so the winds are giving us real cause for concern. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
The lack of wind, though, overnight, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:31 | |
means an unusually chilly start for the glens of Scotland - | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
a touch of frost here, some mist and fog elsewhere. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
But actually, the day is shaping up to be quite a decent one | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
across central and eastern areas - the calm before the storm. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
These winds that you see in the black discs indicate the gusts of wind, | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
already getting up to 50 or 60mph through | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
the Irish Sea into the afternoon. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
So gales, or severe gales, starting to develop, | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
and coupled with that rain, some pretty miserable conditions | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
for a time if you're driving in that spell of rain. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
It should move through quite quickly, giving us | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
another 10-20mm of rain for most of us. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
But it's behind that rain band as it's moved out the way that | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
the winds escalate further. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
Really very strong winds indeed - violent winds, potentially. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
Storm force across the far north and west of Scotland, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
hence the amber warning of gusts in excess of 80mph. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
But actually, even the Central Lowlands could have gusts of 60, | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
possibly 70mph in the far north of Northern Ireland. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
Enough to cause disruption to transport and power lines as well | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
and perhaps some structural damage, certainly in the far north. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
Then, as it clears away, | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
its parting present is a spell of colder weather, just temporarily. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
Still blowing a gale on Friday across most of the UK and storm-force winds | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
battering the north and bringing with them some really chilly air. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
So it may feel like 7-13 on the thermometer - | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
rather, it may say that - but it will feel a lot colder. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
And it will be cold enough for a smattering of snow, | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
potentially, on the Pennines in Cumbria. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
It shouldn't stick, though. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:55 | |
Now, behind me we've also got another lump of cloud that we're watching. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
This one here is Abigail, the one behind me | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
is Hurricane Kate currently. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:02 | |
It will weaken significantly before it comes to the shores of the UK but | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
that's the next area of low pressure, if you like, that we're watching. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
This is Abigail moving across to Scandinavia. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
As we move into Saturday, we say hello again to low pressure. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
Slightly milder conditions again coming in from the south | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
and west, those winds, but an awful lot of rain. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
Because it's of tropical origin, it will have a lot of moisture | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
and energy in there to give us some windy weather, | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
but the rain is going to cause real concern. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
It has been so wet this week - we've already had flooding issues, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
river levels are high, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
so we need to really watch that on Saturday and Sunday. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
That's after we've been battered by Abigail and had some rain from that, | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
because that weather front is still meandering around again on Sunday. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
It looks like central northern areas will bear the brunt of that rain, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
but obviously open to some uncertainty. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
Now, that area of low pressure then moves away again into Monday | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
and its trailing weather front moves southwards, | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
so temporarily it'll turn just a bit chillier, | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
but drier and brighter to the north of that weather front. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
And that's a trend that we're going to see continuing into next week. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
So, by and large it remains unsettled. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
We've got the jet stream, | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
those fast-blowing winds in the upper atmosphere which drive | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
the weather systems from west to east, generally, sat right above us. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
So we can expect further spells of wet and windy weather, | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
but just occasionally some colder air will start to drift | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
across the northern half of the country. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
But for most of us, for most of the time, it remains mild. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
There's more details on that storm on the website. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
# These streets are yours You can keep them... # | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
You wouldn't have found a doctor down here before. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
Or a banker. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
There's no reason this bonus might not be closer to TWO million. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:47 | |
I think you need me to come and speak to the police | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
about those abusive postcards you told me about. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
I don't think anyone would want what I have. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 |