If you have outdoor plans for New Year's Eve, here's the forecast. If you are going in the sea on New Year's Day, have a look at the Sea temps. Brrrrrr!
Edinburgh - Not bad for this year. Milder air will be over Scotland by Wednesday so midnight temperatures in the Central Belt will be around 8 C. There will be a fresh SW wind, making it feel cooler and some rain. A band of rain is forecast to move across Scotland during the evening, with some heavy bursts for Glasgow and Edinburgh. However, it should be through Edinburgh by 11pm allowing the build up to the bells to be dry, clearer, still blustery but not too cold. So fingers crossed – good news for the fireworks display. Don’t despair at the early rain, it will clear.
Stonehaven - just south of Aberdeen is the Stonehaven Fireballs ceremony. Each year people walk the streets swinging flaming wire cages, around their heads. This should burn off the bad spirits left from the old year, so that the spirits of the New Year can come in clean and fresh. For the audience, there will be some rain on Wednesday evening but it will clear and so by midnight it will be dry with clearing skies, temperatures of 7C so not too cold and the wind will be from the SW so Stonehaven is well sheltered from that.
London- . An easier forecast as it will stay dry. Clear skies earlier in the evening will allow temperatures to fall down to 5C but then the cloud comes in and so it won't be as cold as earlier this week.
Cardiff- 8C, breezy. There will be rain arriving in western Wales by midnight but hopefully it should stay dry for the celebrations in Cardiff.
Belfast- 8C, breezy. Early evening rain and showers will clear to leave some fine weather by midnight and not too cold.
Dublin - 9C, damp early evening, but the rain will clear, leaving a blustery but dry midnight
Happy New Year!!
New Year’s Day IN THE SEA
If you are off for a crazy dip in the Sea on New Year’s Day, such as the Loony Dook in Scotland, have a look at the Netweather image for Sea surface temperatures (SSTs)
It will be windy, so if getting in is painfully cold, getting out won’t be great, as the fresh SW winds whistle past your goose flesh. Air temperatures vary from 10C around the Firth of Forth to 5C along the Kent coast
Sea temps Firth of Forth- 8C same as last year, Bristol Channel 10C cooler than last eek! Warmest S.Devon, S.Cornwall at 11.5C. Coolest at 8C Merseyside, the Wash, eastern Scotland.
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