Scratchbox - March 15, 2024
Issued: 04:40hrs Friday 15th March 2024

Filotas: A cloudy and wet start for Scotland with outbreaks of rain, and snow over the Highlands. This will become more light and patchy through the morning and will gradually clear through the afternoon with brightness developing later from the west. Elsewhere a rather cloudy start with outbreaks of rain or drizzle mostly over England and Wales, while Ireland will see some early rain followed by brightness and sunny spells. Breezy with maximum temperatures at 7C in north and 14C in south.


Issued: 13:13hrs Thursday 14th March 2024

Simon: Outbreaks of rain this afternoon in western and southern areas, drier eastern England. Most rain still in southern Scotland, Wales, southwest England and Northern Ireland. Mild.


Issued: 07:31hrs Thursday 14th March 2024

Simon: A very mild day ahead for much of England and Wales, could reach 17C this afternoon in eastern England. Rain north and west, cooler too.


Issued: 10:36hrs Wednesday 13th March 2024

John : Sunshine and frequent blustery showers for Scotland with a fresh to strong likely gale SW wind temperatures 7C though with increasing windchill. Bands of showers will move from west to east during the afternoon. Remaining cloudy for Cumbria to Lancashire, Cheshire to mid-Wales with further outbreaks of rain though this will become patchy from the northwest during the afternoon, extensive area of rain now beginning to clear of east coast of Northumberland. Sunshine and showers to follow through the afternoon with a fresh SW to W wind. South Wales to midlands, SW England to Sussex, cloud will generally breaks through the afternoon with some sunshine temperature 10C presently briefly 12-13C Herefs & Shrops. Northants to Cambridgeshire and later Kent becoming locally warm with 15C through the early afternoon as cloud begin to break with sunshine. Staying windy fresh SW


Issued: 07:06hrs Wednesday 13th March 2024

John : Cloudy across Scotland with frequent outbreaks of rain and blustery showers Western Isles to Shetland. Gales also likely Prolonged rain this morning for Dumfries across to Tayside through to Antrim to Cumbria, Lancashire into Clwyd to Cheshire and across to Northumberland and Yorkshire through this morning. Outbreaks of rain moving into Devon and Cornwall, Dyfed, across midlands through later morning into the afternoon, rain becoming patchy through the afternoon across eastern counties. Temperatures mostly 10C this morning 12-13 through the afternoon Northants to Cambridgeshire to Sussex as cloud tends to break. Windy generally fresh SW wind


Issued: 16:33hrs Tuesday 12th March 2024

John : Saying mainly cloudy for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening for most now, scattered blustery showers across Scotland most frequent Dumfries, Argyll and running into Highland and across Western Isles with a fresh SW wind. Remaining cloudy overnight with further rain heavy at times into western areas of Scotland overnight. Although generally dry for Cumbria and Lancashire to Northumberland presently rain will become prolonged and heavy through the evening and continue overnight with a fresh SW wind. Cloudy with outbreaks of patchy rain across mid to south Wales running across Shrops to Herefs through this evening then staying cloudy and becoming dry overnight. Rain now clearing Cambridgeshire and Kent this afternoon with a dry night to follow.


Issued: 11:45hrs Tuesday 12th March 2024

John : rain now clearing across Wales and through the midlands as temperatures show a quick rise to 10C with winds becoming SW. Rain with some heavy bursts Hampshire to Yorkshire presently will clear from the northwest during the afternoon with a rise in temperature to 10-12C. Rain should be clearing across east coast through the later afternoon. Sunshine and scattered showers through the afternoon for Scotland 8C this afternon


Issued: 06:59hrs Tuesday 12th March 2024

John : Cloudy to start for most today rain already into the west across N.Ireland to Dumfries and Highland, across Wales, Devon and Cornwall, Lancashire through midlands to Hampshire soon to Berkshire and later this morning to Kent and Cambridgeshire to Northumberland. Temperatures 6C midlands northeastwards, 8 to 10C later morning to 12C across sw England, southern and southeeast England through the afternoon, associated with a freshening SW wind. Rain generally clearing from the west during the later morning and by evening across eastern areas.


Issued: 17:12hrs Monday 11th March 2024

Filotas: A few showers over eastern coastal areas in the evening. Thick cloud will arrive over Ireland along with a band of rain reaching the western counties by midnight, and gradually spreading east overnight into Tuesday, and reaching Wales and western parts of England by the early hours. Temperatures will drop to 3-4C in north with isolated patches of frost in sheltered areas, and 6-7C in south.


Issued: 07:23hrs Monday 11th March 2024

Filotas:The day will start fairly cloudy across most parts, with a few showers over eastern Scotland and western Ireland. There is a possibility for some light rain over southeast England early in the morning, but this will soon clear. Occasional showers will persist over coastal areas through the day, but we will see some bright or sunny spells developing away from coast over England and Wales later in the morning and in the afternoon. Maximum temperatures at 8C in north, and 10C in south.