Week Ahead 05/08/2024 – Less hot, some sunshine and some showers – Met Office weather forecast UK
This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 05/08/2024. The wttest weather this week will be in the northwest with parts of the south mostly dry and temperatures will be close to average across the country. Bringing you this weekend’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin.
Transcript
00:00After a hot spell for some parts of the UK last week, the week ahead promises
00:05temperatures much closer to average and that's because the weather patterns are
00:09fairly typical and that means low pressure is situated up to the
00:13northwest of the UK. This one dominates the weather through the first half of
00:17the week it does then tend to drift away but only to be replaced by another one
00:22so the same weather patterns setting up. At times weather fronts will brush parts
00:27of the south but the general rule the closer you are to that low pressure
00:32system the more rain you will see through this week and that's what this
00:35graph is showing us the rainfall accumulations building up as we go
00:40through the week with the heaviest rain particularly on Tuesday morning across
00:44parts of Cumbria but then the rainfall totals really building up through the
00:48week across the highlands of Scotland's northern parts of Wales again the hilly
00:53areas here seeing the heaviest rain whereas a good part of central and
00:56eastern England won't see much rain at all so the further north and west you
01:00are the wetter the week will be. Having said that we will see some rain on this
01:06weather front as it crosses central and eastern England first thing on Tuesday
01:09morning there's the low pressure system getting closer and closer that's going
01:13to drive the showers in but this weather front making for a grey damp start over
01:18parts of Lincolnshire down to the home counties the rain though kind of
01:22fizzling out as it crosses to East Anglia so no more than a little bit of
01:27rain coming in here through the afternoon. Then we'll see a much brighter
01:30zone over much of England and Wales some good spells of sunshine a few showers
01:33for West Wales, North West England lots of showers for Western Scotland and
01:37Northern Ireland blown along by fairly brisk wind you can see the wind
01:41swirling around that low pressure system which will continue to control our
01:46weather through Wednesday. Still some warmth in the air across the east when
01:50we see the Sun coming out through the afternoon 24-25 degrees but it will
01:55start to feel quite a bit fresher after the humid feel through Sunday and at
01:59times on Monday whereas further west temperatures close to average high teens
02:02or low 20s. There's that low pressure system we saw that will continue to edge
02:08closer to the country by Wednesday so lots of showers packing in across
02:13Western Scotland the isobar squeeging together as well so a blusterous day as
02:18well as a pretty wet start for Western Scotland. There'll be showers further
02:22south for England and Wales again mostly across the north and the west with parts
02:26of East Anglia and the southeast of England having a dry day with some cloud
02:31but some sunny spells. The showers may ease later for Northern Ireland and
02:35Wales as well so turning drier but plenty of showers continuing right into
02:39the evening across northern parts of Scotland with a pretty gusty wind as
02:44well. Again temperatures ranging from the low 20s across the south and east to
02:48high teens across the north and west so pretty much bang on average for the time
02:52of year maybe a little cooler across the northwest. That low pressure does edge
02:57away but as we saw earlier it's going to be replaced by another one. We do have to
03:00watch this little weather feature just coming in from the southwest that's
03:04going to introduce more cloud after a bright fine start for many. Quite a drab
03:10day looks likely for Wales and Northern Ireland. Some uncertainty about then the
03:13northward extent of this rainbound but generally a drier day in Western
03:17Scotland after lots of showers on Tuesday and Wednesday and again it looks
03:21like at the moment this zone of rain will shift up across northern England so
03:25East Anglia and the southeast mostly staying dry just with increasing cloud
03:30and probably increasing humidity as well. Quite a warm night at Thursday
03:35night into Friday morning in this warm sector and then well we're really back
03:39to square one with a low pressure sitting up to the northwest, a weather
03:42front crossing the country but this one's got a ripple on it or a wave as we
03:47like to call it. These always add uncertainty to the forecast so this
03:51needs watching later in the week. Some uncertainty about how much rain we see
03:55across parts of the south but it could be a bit of a grey day with some patchy
03:58rain. Question marks about when it will actually clear but it should then reveal
04:03a brighter day elsewhere with sunny spells but plenty of showers again
04:07across western parts of Scotland and temperatures again generally high teens
04:12across the north twenties for England and Wales and perhaps something a bit
04:16warmer across East Anglia and the southeast but it really will depend on
04:19the timing of the clearance of that waving wriggling weather fronts and as I
04:24say they always causes a few problems those waving fronts and there's another
04:28little complication then just this low pressure edging towards us as we head
04:32towards the weekend. Quite a bit of uncertainty about that so if you've got
04:36plans for this weekend do keep up to date with the forecast throughout this
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