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With recent temperatures more typical of mid-May than mid-December, | 0:00:03 | 0:00:06 | |
we're going to have to go some if it's a white Christmas you're after. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
We are going to see changes through this week. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
We start off on a pretty mild note. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:12 | |
Then we're going to see a lot of rain and wind, which could | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
have its impact and then turning a bit chillier towards Christmas. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
Will it be cold enough for snow? | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
Well, not much snow on the charts for Sunday. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
These are rain showers rattling across the country. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
They'll tend to clear away for the more Southern and Eastern areas, | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
so plenty of sunshine developing here. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
A lot more showers to come, further North and West, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
particularly for Western Scotland. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
Some fairly prolonged wet weather here. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
Not AS mild as it has been, but still not remotely cold, | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
somewhere between 9 and 14 degrees, North-West to South-East. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
Now, showers will keep going, across the West of Scotland | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
in particular overnight. Elsewhere, they'll tend to fade away. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
It could be quite chilly as we head towards dawn. Some early brightness. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
That won't last. The next set of fronts whistles in from the West. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
A period of wet and windy weather but, in turn, that won't last either. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:58 | |
It will brighten up again behind those fronts from the North West. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
Similar temperatures, though. 9 to 13 degrees North to South. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
Now, that front is just one of many which'll be crossing | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
the country over the next few days | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
so brace yourself for further spells of wet and windy weather. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
Tuesday looks particularly wet, | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
especially across the high ground of North-West Britain, so South-West | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
Scotland, the Cumbrian Fells, Snowdonia, could see a lot of rain. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
Warnings are in force. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
Quite mild air, just for a time, across the South-East, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
so temperatures could jump up towards the mid-teens. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
That'll be tempered by the strength of the wind. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
It'll brighten up behind those fronts, further North and West. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
Those brighter skies will spread across the whole of the country | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
come the middle of the week. Some sunshine. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
The wind is not just so strong. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
There will be some blustery showers for the North-West, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
those temperatures just easing down a degree or so. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
Now, as we head towards Christmas Eve, | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
we're quite concerned about developments of this feature here. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
It could be more intense than this indicates, which could give the risk | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
of some very strong winds for the far North of Scotland in particular. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
We'll keep an eye on that, but certainly some very wet weather | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
sweeping its way across the country on Christmas Eve, | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
so if you're travelling to friends and relatives, watch out for that. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
You'll notice, though, that the low pressure systems | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
are taking rather more of a Southerly trajectory | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
than we've seen in recent weeks | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
and they're following the track of the jet stream, in actual fact. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
The jet stream which for so long has been to the North of us | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
is now showing signs of taking a more Southerly path and, of course, | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
the jet stream's dividing line between warm air to the South | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
and colder air to the North so, for a change, later on this week | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
as we approach Christmas, we are going to be in the chillier air. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
Not desperately cold, | 0:02:31 | 0:02:32 | |
but certainly a contrast compared with what we've had for recent weeks. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
It will feel quite cold and the showers across Northern Britain | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
could well be wintry in flavour up over the hills. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
So, what about a white Christmas? What constitutes a white Christmas? | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
Just one flake of snow. That's all you need | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
and that's happened 38 times over the past 55 years. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
The deepest snow, the most widespread snow recently, 2010. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
For the big day, then, it looks as if it will be a cold start | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
and Northern areas will probably stay in that chilly air. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
Fronts will try to push in from the South, bringing rain, | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
and eventually they'll try to bring in milder air as well. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
There's a lot of uncertainty about the progress of these fronts | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
as they push into that colder air. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
And then, next weekend, it looks as if that rain will clear, but before | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
that happens, there is the risk of some snow across Northern areas. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
Of course, mostly up over the high ground. That'll clear through. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
It turns drier, we think, for a time, at long last, | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
and probably a touch chillier, but for how long? | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
I'll update you again tomorrow. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:29 | |
# Out there in the dark | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
# Out there in the dark | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
# There's a beckoning candle, yeah | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 |