Week ahead – Dry for most this week and later turning colder 23/03/20
A sunny start to the week for large parts of the UK, but heavy rain will persist in the far northwest. Later this week it will turn cloudier and then colder but much of the country will have a dry week.
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00:00Hello, welcome to the weather for the week ahead from the Met Office.
00:03It's looking largely dry for most of the country this week and certainly the first part of
00:09the week.
00:10Largely sunny skies as well.
00:11It is going to turn cloudier and it's also going to turn colder as we go towards the
00:15end of the week and the weekend.
00:17High pressure is nearby, but actually we're between two highs and we're between two lows
00:22at the moment.
00:23And the low to the north is providing this weather front, which is making for some very
00:26wet conditions across the northwest of Scotland.
00:29The rain continuing here through Tuesday and Wednesday, and as a result, we could see
00:34over 100 millimetres of rain in places and there is a yellow warning in force.
00:38Some patchy rain across western Scotland, but most places will be dry.
00:42A fair bit of cloud across the north, so the sunshine here rather hazy, whereas further
00:47south plenty of blue sky and the wind's relatively light here, certainly compared to recent days,
00:52and so it's going to feel pretty warm with temperatures easily into the mid-teens.
00:55One or two spots could get up into the high teens.
00:58It will be cooler, obviously, with the breeze and the rain across the far northwest.
01:03That weather front continues to wriggle around across the far north into Wednesday.
01:07High pressure across the continent continues to dominate further south, a little bulge
01:12in the ice bars here.
01:13So again, across the south, a cold start, possibly a touch of frost, but then plenty
01:18of sunshine, whereas that weather front continues to bring rain across the Highlands and the
01:23Western Isles, although it might start to clear from the Hebrides through the day.
01:28That warning remains in place into Wednesday.
01:30The cloud will thicken across Northern Ireland, maybe some patchy rain here.
01:33Again, for the bulk of England and Wales, it's a dry and pretty mild day after that
01:38cold start.
01:39Now, the weather front is slipping south through Wednesday night and into Thursday, but it's
01:42getting squeezed by high pressure systems.
01:45So it's really fizzling out in terms of its rainfall.
01:48It will bring more clouds and some drizzly conditions across southern Scotland, pushing
01:53slowly into parts of northern England, maybe north Wales.
01:56So much more cloud here on Thursday.
01:59Maybe the odd shower in the far northwest, but again, further south and east, most places
02:03dry.
02:04But it is, you'll notice, turning colder with more cloud and as cold air comes in and the
02:09winds start to pick up as well, particularly on the east coast.
02:12High pressure is well and truly sitting across the country by the time we get to Friday.
02:16The remnants of that weather front will again provide a fair bit of cloud across some central
02:21parts and maybe the odd shower here and there.
02:24But again, most places will be dry on Friday under that high pressure.
02:28But with the high building in from the Atlantic, the winds coming in from the northwest and
02:32coming down the North Sea in particular is going to feel quite chilly on these North
02:36Sea coasts.
02:37With a bit of brightness in the south, we could still get into the teens, but you'll
02:40notice temperatures dropping off day by day come the end of this week.
02:45The high pressure is still controlling things as we go into the weekend.
02:48The isobars are squeezing together a little bit more.
02:51So these northerly winds will get stronger, it looks like, through Friday and more especially
02:55into the weekend.
02:56So the weekend, yes, staying largely dry, but it is going to be feeling quite a lot
03:00colder, especially as that wind starts to pick up.
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