Week ahead - Will we see a return of summer?
This week brings more showers initially. Later on in the week warmer air could be drawn up from the south allowing temperatures to rise, but there is much uncertainty about how long any warm spell will last.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Welcome to a look at the weather for
00:01the week ahead from the Met Office.
00:03Something of a north-south split
00:05with the weather this week.
00:06And yes, there are signs of
00:08something resembling summer
00:10returning to the south as
00:11temperatures start to rise,
00:12particularly later in the week.
00:14Whereas further north, it's often
00:16going to be quite breezy this week
00:18with further showers to come.
00:20This kind of tells the story.
00:21The pressure pattern for the next
00:22five days, high pressure,
00:24the dominant feature across the
00:25south, low pressure,
00:27the dominant feature across the
00:29north with weather fronts swinging
00:30by, bringing bands of showers and
00:32the ice bars often squeezing
00:34together as well, telling us
00:35it's often going to be quite
00:37gusty.
00:37So, yes, it is a bit of a
00:39north-south split.
00:40But in the south, we could see some
00:41warmer weather.
00:42Question marks come the weekend
00:44about when this weather front
00:45swings through and whether it
00:47gets rid of any warmer weather
00:48across the south.
00:49But that's all to come.
00:51Let's rewind and go back
00:53and break down the days day by
00:54day. Looking at Tuesday, first
00:56of all, we've got a couple of
00:57weather fronts bringing thicker
00:59cloud initially over southwest
01:00Scotland, northwest England with
01:02some showers.
01:03They'll move into northeast
01:04England and across central and
01:05southern Scotland.
01:06Next, weather fronts introducing
01:08more cloud to Wales and southwest
01:09England after a bright start and
01:11also clouding over in Northern
01:12Ireland with some showers here.
01:14In between, though, we should see
01:15some sunshine on Tuesday and the
01:17winds will be a bit lighter than
01:18Monday's values.
01:19So in that sunshine, feeling
01:21pleasant enough, temperatures
01:22again in the high teens or maybe
01:24low 20s.
01:26Now, as you move through Tuesday
01:27night and into Wednesday, high
01:29pressure continues to dominate
01:30across the south.
01:31But we are focusing in again on
01:33low pressure further north and
01:34this weather front in particular.
01:35That's going to bring a band of
01:37wet weather into the northwest
01:39as the day goes on and the ice
01:40above squeezing together.
01:41So the winds will be picking up
01:43as well.
01:44Initially, though, it's a case of
01:46dodging the showers over Wales,
01:48northern England and Scotland.
01:49Some of them could be heavy and
01:50then they're kind of joined by
01:52this band of wet and windy weather
01:53swinging in.
01:54Notice, though, across the south,
01:56not too many showers here and
01:58with a bit of brightness,
01:59temperatures could again get into
02:00the low 20s, whereas it will be
02:01feeling quite a bit cooler as
02:03that wet and windy weather sweeps
02:05into the northwest.
02:07This weather front then continues
02:08to head its way across the
02:09country, but it will be fizzling
02:11out as it bumps up against that
02:12area of high pressure by the time
02:14we get to Thursday.
02:16There are more weather fronts
02:17waiting to push in and notice the
02:19ice bars still fairly close
02:20together. So it's going to be
02:21blustery in the northwest on
02:23Thursday with further showers
02:25perhaps turning into more
02:26persistent rain as those weather
02:28fronts head in.
02:29For England, Wales and parts of
02:31southern Scotland, it's a case
02:33again of dodging a few showers,
02:35but much of the day will be dry
02:37and there'll be a fair bit of cloud
02:38around, but we should see some
02:39sunshine across the east and the
02:40south at times, lifting the
02:42temperatures again into the low
02:4420s. So again, quite a contrast
02:45between northwest and southeast,
02:47which will persist on Friday.
02:48Chance of a bit of mist and low
02:49cloud along the south coast
02:51through Thursday and Friday.
02:53One or two showers dotted around,
02:55but the more persistent rain
02:57is gathering once
02:59more in the northwest.
02:59That's that cold front we saw
03:01earlier on, and it does bring
03:03some question marks as we go into
03:04the weekend. High pressure is still
03:06the dominant feature.
03:07And as it shifts into Europe,
03:09well, it actually lifts
03:11southerly winds across the UK.
03:13So we will start to see the
03:15temperatures rising mid 20s
03:17by Friday, possibly a bit
03:19higher in some spots on Saturday,
03:21but there is uncertainty about the
03:22timing of that weather front.
03:24At the moment, the weekend bank
03:26holiday for many could
03:28be starting warm, but there'll
03:30be wet weather from that weather
03:31front probably pushing into the
03:33northwest and uncertainty about
03:34whether that weather front sweeps
03:35through and takes the warm weather
03:37away with it.
03:38So there's quite a bit of uncertainty
03:39after Saturday.
03:40Nothing unusual about having
03:42uncertainty this far ahead.
03:44The message at the moment, if you've
03:46got plans for the weekend, is to
03:47stay tuned to the updates.
03:49Best way to do that, follow us on
03:51social media.