Week Ahead – An up and down week ahead
This week starts windy and will probably end windy with calmer conditions between that will mean fog and frost in places. Alex Deakin has the day by day details.
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00:00Hello.
00:01Welcome to your weather for the week ahead from the Met Office.
00:03Bit of a roller coaster this week.
00:05We're going to see big changes.
00:06We start blustery, a windy start,
00:08particularly in northern Scotland,
00:10where there's a warning in force.
00:12And everywhere will experience a cold wind on Tuesday.
00:15Then things calm down.
00:17High pressure moves in.
00:18The winds turn a lot lighter, which
00:20means we'll see a return of frost and some fog.
00:23But then at the end of the week, we
00:25could see things flipping back and the wind
00:27starting to pick up, potentially getting
00:29very windy during the second half of the weekend.
00:32Let's take a look day by day and take a look
00:34at the big picture first of all.
00:36It's this area of high pressure which
00:38will dominate through the middle of the week.
00:40But it's not here yet.
00:41It's this low pressure to the north of Scotland.
00:44Look at those isobars really nipping together
00:46across northern Scotland.
00:47Very strong winds on Monday night.
00:50There is that warning in force, gusts of 60, 70,
00:53possibly, around exposed coasts 80 miles an hour.
00:56That low pressure will also be throwing a lot of showers
00:58across the country on Tuesday morning.
01:00Some sleet and snow over the hills in northern Scotland,
01:03even to lower levels for a time.
01:05The showers drift southwards.
01:07And the winds will bring a chilly feel,
01:09even though we do see things turning drier by the afternoon.
01:13And we should see some sunny spells.
01:15Temperature-wise, well, actually,
01:16the numbers on the thermometer will read a roundabout
01:19or maybe even a touch above average, 8, 9, 10 Celsius.
01:22But add on that wind, and particularly
01:25down the east coast, it is going to feel cold temperatures
01:28here, feeling more like 2 or 3 Celsius at best.
01:32So a cold wind blowing on Tuesday,
01:34but things calming down on Tuesday night.
01:37As the high pressure moves in, the isobars space out.
01:40The winds fall light.
01:42And that will allow things to turn quite cold
01:44for Wednesday morning.
01:45A frost is likely in some spots.
01:47And we could see some fog around as well.
01:50Overall, though, it's a dry day.
01:52We'll see some bright or sunny spells coming through.
01:55If we do get some thick fog, though,
01:57it could take a while to clear.
01:59Maybe some drizzly rain at times across the far north
02:01of Scotland.
02:02Temperature-wise, well, again, 7, 8, 9 Celsius.
02:04But the winds won't be as strong.
02:07However, just bear in mind, if we
02:08do see some stubborn fog patches,
02:10temperatures won't be this high.
02:12They'll struggle to get much above freezing.
02:15Again, fog likely on Wednesday night,
02:17as the winds are light across England and Wales.
02:18Not many isobars here.
02:20That high is just starting to wobble away.
02:23A bit more in the way of breeze across northern Scotland
02:25and Northern Ireland means here it won't be too foggy.
02:28And again, bar a bit of drizzle across the far northwest,
02:31it's a largely dry day on Thursday.
02:33A fair bit of cloud around, but we
02:35should see some sunny spells coming through
02:36at times, providing that fog shifts.
02:39And temperatures, again, single figures for the most part,
02:43and lower than these numbers if that fog doesn't clear away.
02:47Could, again, be some fog around on Friday morning
02:49as the high continues to dominate
02:51across England and Wales.
02:53But by this stage, just notice those isobars
02:55just huddling together a little bit more.
02:57The breeze started to pick up, and there
02:58are a couple of weather fronts on the chart.
03:00One could bring some patchy rain.
03:02Again, across the western coast, it
03:03might just be a bit damp and a bit drizzly.
03:05But for most areas, it's a dry day, predominantly cloudy.
03:09The winds are coming up from the south,
03:11which means if we see some breaks in the cloud,
03:13temperatures could get up to double digits.
03:15But it's going to be a cold start across the east,
03:17so temperatures here will struggle a little bit,
03:19six or seven degrees Celsius.
03:21I mentioned those weather fronts starting to approach.
03:24And this one looks like getting on the scene during Friday
03:27night and into the weekend.
03:29Still a bit of uncertainty about that, of course.
03:31But the bigger picture reveals quite a dramatic change
03:34taking place out in the Atlantic as we go into the weekend.
03:38Looking high up in the atmosphere,
03:39this is the jet stream.
03:41And we could see a really powerful jet stream
03:43starting to develop at the end of the week
03:45across the Atlantic.
03:46And that will then drive areas of low pressure our way.
03:50Now, this is a few days off, of course.
03:52So it's difficult to say what exact details of the weather
03:54into the weekend.
03:55But it could be quite a big change
03:57as we see initially some rain arriving in the west
04:00and then the winds picking up and the possibility
04:02of some very windy conditions.
04:04So the message at the moment is stay tuned to the forecast
04:07day by day variations.
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