Week Ahead – Ciara has cleared but the weather remains lively
An active week of weather with strong winds, heavy rain, heavy snow showers, frost, ice and a bit of sunshine. Warnings are in force so stay up to date and watch Alex Deakin go through the week day by day.
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00:00Hello, welcome to your weather for the week ahead from the Met Office. Storm
00:04Kira has cleared away, yes, but it's still going to be a windy, a very windy
00:09week. One thing we may notice is that temperatures could steadily rise. It's a
00:13cold start to the working week. By the end of the week temperatures will be
00:17higher which means we lose the risk of snow showers but there's still going to
00:21be some wet weather around and a continued risk of flooding. There is an
00:25awful lot going on this week and when that's the case you can pretty much
00:29guarantee that low pressure will never be too far away. A couple of systems
00:33close by to start the week. Another one whizzes across the country through the
00:36middle of the week. Another one arrives for Friday and look at that there's
00:39another one waiting in the wings for the weekend. So all the while pretty much
00:44those ice bars are close together. It is going to be a windy week, feeling cold in
00:49that wind on Tuesday morning. We do have warnings in for snow showers continuing
00:53over Northern England, Northern Ireland, parts of Scotland, over relatively
00:57modest hills even to low levels at times particularly across Scotland and
01:01with the strength of the wind that means blizzards. So further travel disruption
01:06is likely and warnings remain in force into Wednesday too. Further south not as
01:12many showers. Where we do see them there'll be of rain, some sunshine across
01:15parts of Eastern England in particular but it is going to feel cold.
01:20Temperatures across Northern Britain 3 to 5, further south 5 to maybe 8 but it
01:24feels colder when you add on the strength of the wind and look at the
01:28ice bars still really pinched close together through Tuesday evening. This is
01:33a little ridge of high pressure and really little. It is a very brief ridge
01:39that topples in. It means the winds perhaps not quite as strong on Wednesday
01:43and not as many showers around either but there will still be snow showers for
01:48sure across Northern Scotland. A few rain showers elsewhere but probably the best
01:53chance of some decent dry weather on Wednesday across a good chunk of Central
01:57and Eastern Britain but notice down to the southwest while the winds were
02:01picking up again here as more wet weather starts to arrive from this
02:05weather system. Now this one kind of moves in on Wednesday night and lingers
02:09for much of Thursday. It is going to bring rain and strong winds as it moves
02:15its way in. Some uncertainty about the exact position of this low as it tracks
02:18in but as I said it's basically going to be bringing a wet and windy spell with
02:23snow on its leading edge over the hills of Northern England and Southern
02:26Scotland. Northern Scotland gets a bit of a respite on Thursday perhaps a little
02:30drier here but elsewhere look at that it's going to be wet and windy but it
02:35will also be turning a little milder with temperatures in the south set to
02:39get to double digits. It won't feel all that much milder though because of the
02:44strength of the wind and the outbreaks of rain. That low clears away and then we
02:48get another little baby ridge coming in but it again it doesn't last too long as
02:52the next weather system starts to arrive on Friday. Again those isobars
02:55squeezing together, the winds picking up initially across Scotland and Northern
02:59Ireland so that weather front will be bringing rain and a bit of hill snow.
03:03Elsewhere we may start dry on Friday morning but that band of rain swings in
03:07across England and Wales during the day. As always when we're talking about the
03:12end of the week bit of uncertainty about the timing of that weather front but
03:15we're pretty confident that another wet and windy spell will swing through but
03:19again look at those temperatures 12 or 13 Celsius quite a bit higher and we're
03:26starting the working week. That weather front swings out of the way during
03:29Friday afternoon and evening then a bit of a respite but still very windy a lot
03:34of isobars and then we're keeping a close eye on this area of low pressure
03:38that could turn pretty nasty. At the moment it looks like developing way out
03:42in the Atlantic but if that tracks a bit closer to the UK that's tightly packed
03:46Isobar suggesting another windy spell most likely on Sunday so that's an area
03:51we're keeping a very close eye on strong winds certainly likely this weekend
03:54further bouts of rain so again further warnings are possible. Make sure you stay
04:00up to date with the very latest Met Office weather warnings there are some
04:04in force until Wednesday. The best way to keep up to date is to follow us on
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