The Met Office gives regular UK weather forecasts in YouTube videos, the latest of which addresses a band of high pressure moving across the country to deliver a warm start to March
The Met Office has confirmed the UK will enjoy a glorious period of weather at the start of spring – with temperature extremes to rise by nearly 20C.
Wednesday will likely to the hottest day of the year so far with highs of 15C expected across northern and eastern areas, including Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. It will be widely 14C elsewhere, such as Herefordshire and Worcestershire in the Midlands and County Antrim in Northern Ireland.
It will be a huge contrast to Friday’s lows of -6C in Aberdeenshire, -5C in Northumberland and -5.3C in Oxfordshire. A band of low pressure moving in from the Atlantic will send temperatures rising, forecasters at the Met Office say. The 15C anticipated on Wednesday will be warmer than the expected 14C in Madrid that day and hotter than the 13C expected in Barcelona.
“High pressure is sitting in here, and that is going to bring in a lot of fine weather over the next few days… Generally, the jet has shifted north and this has allowed this chunky area of high pressure to sit in and that is going to bring a lot of fine weather, certainly through the course of this weekend and into next week,” Alex Deakin, meteorologist at the Met Office, said in one of the service’s YouTube forecasts.
The forecaster explained how skies will be clear for many during the evenings this weekend. Although during early on Saturday morning rain will move across Scotland, it will soon become settled.
And temperatures continue to rise, according to graphics by forecasters at Ventusky. Winds will be westerly, a contrast from the bitter easterlies which made it feel far colder than it has been recently.
Writing on its website in relation to the forecast from Wednesday March 5 to Friday March 14, the Met Office says: “High pressure is likely to have more influence across the south of the UK, at least at first.
“However, through this period there is an increasing chance of unsettled conditions becoming more widely dominant across the UK with more in the way of rain at times for all areas, even in the south. Although, there will still be some drier interludes between these periods of unsettled conditions.”
