Week Ahead – Will it stop raining?
It’ll turn a little drier for a day or so around the middle of the week, for many that will coincide with bonfire night, but overall the showers will keep coming and it will also turn colder. Alex Deakin has the details…….
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00:00Hello.
00:01Welcome to your weather for the week
00:02ahead from the Met Office.
00:03There's more rain to come this week.
00:05If you're after a drier period,
00:07well, the middle of the week offers
00:09something a little bit drier for
00:10many of us.
00:11And actually, Tuesday night for
00:12Bonfire Night looks largely
00:14dry at this stage, but it's not
00:16going to be mild, if anything,
00:18feeling a lot colder this week
00:19with further rain to come by the
00:21end of the week.
00:22The bigger picture tells the story.
00:24This is Monday's chart.
00:25Low pressure controlling our
00:27weather. Fast forward to Friday
00:29and it looks remarkably similar.
00:31That's not the same low.
00:32We will get something a bit drier
00:34in between, but it kind of tells
00:35the story that low pressure will be
00:37dominating this week.
00:38Let's rewind and run through
00:40day by day.
00:41Looking at Monday night into
00:43Tuesday, that first low starts to
00:45drift to the south and that
00:47allows colder air to start
00:49to push in across Scotland and
00:50Northern Ireland.
00:51This weather front will bring
00:53some dull and damp conditions,
00:55certainly across northeast England
00:56early on on Tuesday.
00:58And that showery rain pushing into
00:59the Midlands, parts of East Anglia
01:01and the southeast during Tuesday
01:03afternoon. A few showers will come
01:05into northern and eastern Scotland,
01:07but for many western areas,
01:08Tuesday looks quite a bit drier.
01:10We should see some sunshine at
01:12times in Northern Ireland, western
01:14parts of Scotland in particular.
01:15Temperature wise, well, that cooler
01:17air is pushing in.
01:18So single digits across Scotland,
01:2011 to 13 elsewhere,
01:22but feeling cold with that wind
01:24coming in from the North Sea and
01:25with a cloud and the showery rain
01:27across the southeastern corner
01:29during Tuesday evening.
01:30Now, it will still be here through
01:32the evening as well.
01:33So although I said many places
01:35having a fine bonfire night,
01:37there will still be some showers
01:38across eastern Scotland and
01:40particularly across East Anglia and
01:41the southeast and certainly
01:43wherever you are, even if it's dry,
01:44as in nothing falling from the sky,
01:46it will be wet underfoot.
01:48And it's only quite chilly as well.
01:50A cold night Tuesday night
01:52between weather systems, a very
01:54brief ridge tries to move
01:56in. That will allow some fog patches
01:58to form for Wednesday morning and
02:00it will allow those temperatures to
02:01drop away.
02:02So a cold, potentially frosty
02:04start on Wednesday morning.
02:05But weather fronts aren't too far
02:07away and these will be shimmying
02:09in through the day, bringing cloud
02:11and some showery rain to
02:13western areas.
02:14The odd shower close to eastern
02:16coast, but for many central and
02:17eastern parts, Wednesday is dry
02:19until this band of rain creeps its
02:21way in.
02:22That's cloud increasing coming
02:24in after a cold night on Tuesday
02:26night means temperatures could
02:27really struggle on Wednesday,
02:28single digits in many places
02:30and feeling particularly cold as
02:32that rain drifts in
02:34from this area of low pressure that
02:35then takes control of our weather
02:37through the second half of the
02:39week. Again, the isobar is quite
02:40close together.
02:41So again, there could be some
02:42stronger winds later in the week,
02:44and particularly close to this low,
02:45some heavy, maybe even thundery
02:47showers across the southwest.
02:49It's another day of bands of showers
02:51drifting across the country around
02:53that area of low pressure.
02:54Again, it won't rain all day.
02:56There will be drier and brighter
02:58spells, but temperature wise,
02:59again, many places won't
03:02get out of single figures.
03:03Seven to nine degrees typically,
03:05maybe 10 or 11 on the south coast.
03:06But again, possibly quite gusty
03:08here close to that area of low
03:10pressure that's still with us as we
03:11go into Friday, showing
03:14signs of ebbing away, perhaps
03:15through the day. There's quite a
03:16bit of uncertainty as we get
03:17towards the end of the week.
03:19But again, around that low pressure
03:20system, there will be showers
03:22through the course of Friday,
03:23especially early on on Friday
03:24morning. And then the winds start
03:26to come in again from the north
03:27across parts of Scotland.
03:28So feeling quite cold here
03:30and possibly with some frost
03:32around as we go into the weekend.
03:34Look at the maximum temperatures.
03:35Again, it's single figures for most
03:36places are quite a bit colder
03:38than it has been recently.
03:39But if that low does ever weigh,
03:41then we could start to see some
03:43drier and brighter weather returning
03:44into Friday afternoon and Friday
03:46night. A bit of uncertainty then as
03:48we go into the weekend, that low
03:50pulls away.
03:51We try and build in a brief
03:53ridge of high pressure, but there
03:54are weather fronts waiting to
03:55bring more wet weather in from the
03:57west once more.
03:58So as I said, a bit of uncertainty
04:00about the weekend, it could start
04:01dry and a little bit chilly.
04:03But stay tuned to the forecast
04:04throughout this week and we'll
04:06update you on the progress of the
04:07weekend. There's always more on our
04:09social media channels.