Week Ahead – Further spells of wet and windy weather on the way
This week’s weather is not expected to be quite as severe as last weeks, however with saturated ground in many parts of the country any further rainfall could cause disruption and flooding.
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00:00Welcome to your weather for the week ahead from the Met Office.
00:03The weather this week, perhaps not quite as severe as last week,
00:06but having said that, the ground is saturated.
00:09So any heavy rain falling, and there will be some of that,
00:12is likely to cause some further problems.
00:14And it's still going to be very, very blustery at times
00:18with some lively gusts of wind,
00:20all because, of course, of low pressure systems.
00:23Now Storm Dennis is exiting, but another low is following for Tuesday.
00:27Here comes Wednesday's wet and windy spell,
00:29which lingers into Thursday before another low follows on behind.
00:33High pressure trying to establish itself across parts of the south,
00:36but the main theme this week is that we will see
00:39further spells of wet and windy weather.
00:42Tuesday is a gusty, blustery day.
00:44There'll be some sunshine, but there will be showers.
00:47Bands of showers swinging in, in particular a lively band of showers
00:51working across England and Wales through Tuesday afternoon and evening.
00:55And all the while through Tuesday,
00:56the showers will be falling as snow over the higher ground
00:58across western Scotland.
01:00There's a warning in force here for Monday night for snow and ice.
01:04Temperature-wise, well, single figures generally.
01:06I'm feeling colder because of that gusty wind.
01:08Certainly it'll be colder as this band of heavy rain swings through.
01:12That's on this weather front.
01:13And then, well, there's the briefest of ridges of high pressure
01:17moving in for Tuesday night.
01:18So a fine start for some on Wednesday,
01:21but here is another deep area of low pressure.
01:24And these weather fronts will be bringing more rain.
01:26This wet weather will be heavy and persistent.
01:29And to a particular concern across parts of Wales,
01:31of course, very badly hit by the floods at the weekend.
01:34There are weather warnings in force for that wet weather coming in
01:37during Wednesday.
01:38But it's not just Wales.
01:39Sweeps across pretty much all parts of the country,
01:41maybe not getting to the far northeast until late on.
01:44The winds will be picking up as well.
01:46Temperatures 7, 8, 9, 10 degrees Celsius,
01:49but not feeling in any way mild with the wet and windy weather.
01:53And that low doesn't just move away either.
01:55It's this rippling, wiggling weather front that is a cause for concern
01:59because it might just spin up itself into another area of low pressure.
02:02We need to watch that.
02:04And it does mean that rain will be dragging its heels during Thursday,
02:08still around across parts of England and Wales.
02:10Some uncertainty about the exact position and the intensity.
02:13But again, that weather warning issued for Wednesday
02:16still in force into Thursday
02:18as that weather front only slowly pushes its way away.
02:21Behind it, it'll turn a bit brighter,
02:23but with more showers to come across western parts of Scotland.
02:26And then again, a very brief little ridge of high pressure.
02:30But the main theme towards the end of the week,
02:32another area of low pressure.
02:33The ice above squeezing together as well.
02:35It looks like this one on Friday will mostly be across northern Britain.
02:39And again, more rain falling onto very soggy ground
02:42across western Scotland, northern Ireland, parts of northwest England.
02:46Further south, it looks like a dry, fine start.
02:48And that weather front may start to bring some more rain
02:50back towards northwest England, north Wales later on.
02:53Further south, it looks like a dry day.
02:55Perhaps on Friday, but still breezy.
02:57Temperatures 10 to 12 degrees Celsius,
03:00getting very windy across northern Scotland
03:02as that low pressure system moves in.
03:04Now, it's all been very active, the weather of late,
03:07because of a very lively jet stream.
03:09If you take a look at the bigger picture through Friday and into the weekend,
03:13well, yet again, next weekend,
03:15we're going to see a very active jet stream streaming its way across the Atlantic,
03:20the potential for further areas of low pressure
03:22to spin up and drive their way across the UK into the weekend.
03:27Still a few days off, of course,
03:29but it does look as if the unsettled theme will continue into the weekend
03:33with further bounce of strong wind and also, at times,
03:36some further heavy rain to come.
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