:00:07. > :00:11.Good evening. Well, still a few days to go before the end of the
:00:11. > :00:15.year, but it has already been confirmed that in England 2012 will
:00:15. > :00:19.go down as the wettest year ever recorded, records going back more
:00:19. > :00:24.than 100 years, and we are not out of the woods yet. In the north and
:00:24. > :00:28.west tonight, gusts up to 85 or 90 mph, the potential to damage
:00:28. > :00:33.structures from that, but that is only half the story because we have
:00:33. > :00:37.got heavy rain piling into the West of England and Wales. The wins are
:00:37. > :00:41.from the south-west, keeping things relatively wild, but that is little
:00:41. > :00:46.consolation, because across the south and west it is thoroughly wet
:00:46. > :00:51.overnight and into the morning. We could see a good inch of rain or in
:00:51. > :00:55.places, whether warnings in force. Make the most of the dry start
:00:55. > :00:59.across the south-east and East Anglia, because it will not last.
:00:59. > :01:04.You can see the rain piling into the north-west of England, some
:01:04. > :01:07.spilling into the north-east, son - - southern and central parts of
:01:07. > :01:13.Scotland seemed pretty wet weather through the morning. Blustery
:01:13. > :01:16.showers affecting Western Scotland those may clip the north coast of
:01:16. > :01:23.Northern Ireland. Towards Belfast, much drier than elsewhere. In Wales,
:01:23. > :01:29.a miserable start, heavy rain and a really strong squally winds, and
:01:29. > :01:31.those squally winds will creep ever eastwards, so it would turn into a
:01:31. > :01:35.miserable afternoon across central and eastern parts of England.
:01:35. > :01:41.Further west, gradually brightening up, a little bit of sunshine but
:01:41. > :01:45.some blustery showers getting going, and temperatures in North dipping
:01:45. > :01:49.down a couple of degrees on today's values. Into the evening, showers
:01:49. > :01:54.widespread across western parts of the UK, but in Scotland the showers
:01:54. > :01:57.will turn to snow quite readily over the hills, so some fairly
:01:57. > :02:02.significant snowfall as we look towards dawn on Sunday. For central
:02:02. > :02:06.and eastern areas, a better day of it, I suspect, largely dry and
:02:06. > :02:09.bright, but more wind and rain lurking in Northern Ireland to
:02:09. > :02:14.spread across most other parts as we get into the latter stages of
:02:14. > :02:18.Sunday. Monday's New Year's Eve, more rain in the forecast, the rain
:02:18. > :02:24.in Scotland should clear later in the day, but for the south-east it