they may be broken again today because we ve still got this feed of very mild air coming right up from the tropics. and that s really the reason why it s been so mild, a band of really quite sharp showers moving through, even the odd rumble of thunder. sunshine follows behind, more showers rattling in, particularly for scotland and northern ireland, close to the deep area of low pressure, which is bringing gale force winds as well today to northern and western areas. but 15, 16 possibly will break the new year s day record as well if we get past 15.6. and it stays mild through the night, still have that wind. we ve got more rain or showers to come and a lot of cloud. the temperatures won t drop much below eight to 12 degrees celsius. what they should be really during the time of during the day at this time of year. another mild day on sunday, but it does get briefly colder into the start of next week.
ease away a little bit over the coming few days. the change is all to do with the wind direction. it is a south westerly coming all the way from the tropics, the far south of us, notjust across the south but across much of europe as well. but we have low pressure with us, so it does mean that it is a windy day. tightly packed isobars and we have some rain around. not a great deal. this rain is pulling away from scotland through this morning and thenit scotland through this morning and then it is bands of showers. quite a narrow band, but there could be some quite heavy bursts of rain on that as it moves through. probably for just an hourfor as it moves through. probably for just an hour for most of us, but we will see some sunshine to the east of that and some sunshine following on behind. stronger winds today, though, notably for scotland and northern ireland. gale force around the hills and the coasts. showers coming in behind but a good deal of fine and dry weather. it is all about
got at the moment. if you can t get here today because it is sold out, you can watch it online, just like all of these people. you can watch it online, ust like all of these people. all of these people. cheering studio: great all of these people. cheering studio: great stuff. - the met office says today is provisonally the warmest new year s day on record. as much of the uk continues to enjoy unseasonably mild weather it s thought a temperature of 16.2c has been reached at st james s park in central london potentially beating the previous record of 15.6c. but weather experts still need to verify the new record. the met office says more temperature updates will be published later. now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon, the new year has started just as the old one ended, with some exceptionally mild air across the uk. through the rest of the afternoon, it stays very mild, stays very windy in places, and there ll be rain
year. it was record breaking warmth when 2001 and is continuing 2022. records broken yesterday and they may be broken yesterday and they may be broken again today as we have this feed are very mild air coming across from the tropics and that is really the reason why it has been so mild. a band of sharp showers moving through the odd rumble of thunder and the sunshine follows behind with more showers rattling in northern ireland close to the area of low force winds to northern and western areas but 15 or 16 possibly will break the new year s day record if we get passed 15.6 and it stays mild through the night still with the wind and rain and rain and showers to come in a lot of cloud so temperatures won t drop much below eight or 12 and that should be during the day at that time of year and a mild day but it does get
but they say temperatures have reached 16.2 degrees in stjames s park in central london. the previous record was set in bude, cornwall in 1916 when it reached 15.6 celsius. now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon, the new year has started just as the old one ended, with some exceptionally mild air across the uk. through the rest of the afternoon, it stays very mild, stays very windy in places, and there ll be rain for some, but not for all. some rain pushing across the south east corner, some showery rain through northern ireland and scotland and for western scotland particularly, we ll see wind gusts of 60 to 70 miles per hour, maybe even a little stronger in the most exposed places. top temperatures, 13 to 16 degrees. quite extraordinary for the first day of january. through this evening and tonight, some of that rain hangs on across the south east. for a time, we will see more showery rain pushing its way in from the west overnight. some of that could b