this has become a tradition of its own. it was the 21st annual santa sunday supporting a local charity organisation working to create educational and recreational opportunities for local youth. hello there. it was cold over the weekend. some areas saw quite a bit of rain and we had some snow over northern hills. similar story as we start the new week. we ve got a frontal system working its way in from the atlantic. that s going to bring another round of rain and hill snow. you can see it here showing up on that pressure chart. it will be very wet across northern ireland, parts of scotland, western england and wales to start this morning. quite quickly, though, it will brighten up across northern ireland with sunshine and showers. but this band of rain will continue its journey eastwards through the day, eventually crossing most of england. we ll see some snow over the pennines as well. there could be a bit of a hang back of the rain for east anglia in the far south east, otherwise it b
will be quite heavy, so a pretty atrocious looking day, i think, for tuesday. stay tuned to the forecast details may change. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, storm barra begins to weaken and it sits across the uk, we think, as it does weaken. still be quite a windy day, i think, on wednesday not as windy as tuesday, but a blustery one nonetheless with showers or longer spells of rain. these will be wintry over the higher ground as the air s still cold, and we ll see gales across south western areas, too, and it s going to feel chilly those temperatures in single digits across the board.
sylvia lennan spence, bbc news. well! what a story. stay watching. you can reach me on twitter i m @ bbc baxter. hello there. it was cold over the weekend. some areas saw quite a bit of rain and we had some snow over northern hills. similar story as we start the new week. we ve got a frontal system working its way in from the atlantic. that s going to bring another round of rain and hill snow. you can see it here showing up on that pressure chart. it will be very wet across northern ireland, parts of scotland, western england and wales to start this morning. quite quickly, though, it will brighten up across northern ireland with sunshine and showers. but this band of rain will continue its journey eastwards through the day, eventually crossing most of england. we ll see some snow over the pennines as well. there could be a bit of a hang back of the rain for east anglia in the far south east, otherwise it brightens up for many of us with some good spells of sunshine. most of the showe
before departure. in nigeria is on the uk red list from monday, adding to the many southern african countries already on the list. by the latest changes have been criticised as a case of shutting the stable door after the horses bolted by a scientist advising the government. professor michael house argues the new rules have come too to make a material difference to a potential wave of the omicron variant in the uk. these changes have also been described as a hammer blow by the travel industry. let s get some of the day s other news. at least 14 people have died and dozens have been injured on the indonesian island of java, after an active volcano erupted for the second time in months. officials monitoring the semeru volcano have warned residents to remain vigilant, amid reports some had returned to their homes to check on belongings and livestock. heavy wind and rain have brought search and rescue efforts to a halt.
and frequent, and there will be some wintriness over the high ground. a cold day to come we could see nine or ten degrees in the far south west. it stays breezy with blustery showers, wintry on the hills through monday night. then it turns a little bit drier, but clear and cold for many of us. and then in the south west, we start to see an area of wet and very windy weather pushing up across ireland and then into irish sea coasts. now, it s all tied in with this the second named storm of the season named storm barra by the irish met service because it s ireland that will see the biggest impacts from this storm through the course of tuesday. but across the rest of the uk, we ll see gusts widely 50mph, more than that near exposed coasts in the south and the west. that, mixed in with the heavy rain and also some hill snow, is likely to cause some disruption, even some damage. so, it starts very wet, very windy indeed across western areas damaging gusts of wind. this area of rain p