Week Ahead – Gusty winds this week and will we see any September sunshine?
After a warmer day on Tuesday it turns colder this week with some chilly and gusty winds likely, especially on Wednesday. Although it’ll be turning colder there’ll still be some sunshine to be had. Alex Deakin has the changeable details.
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00:00Hello. Welcome to your weather for the week ahead from the Met Office.
00:03The weather is going to be chopping and changing a fair bit through this week,
00:06but most of us will see at least a couple of sunny days.
00:10It is going to turn colder, though, especially from midweek as the winds start to pick up.
00:15And for some, it could be a particularly windy Wednesday.
00:19What's going on? Well, the big picture shows a bit of a battle for supremacy
00:23with high pressure close to the south, low pressure systems further north.
00:27Neither completely win out, although these weather fronts will again bring a lot of cloud
00:31and some rain across northwest Scotland during Tuesday.
00:35Elsewhere, Tuesday is actually generally dry and again, it'll be bright enough across the Midlands,
00:40East Anglia and the southeast. We should see some sunshine.
00:43Any early brightness across the far north of Scotland turns cloudy as the rain pushes in here
00:48and another band of rain then heads into Northern Ireland later on.
00:51Bar a few scattered showers in the west, the bulk of England and Wales will be dry
00:55and where we see some sunshine, it'll feel pleasantly warm.
00:59In fact, overall, it's a warmer day on Tuesday,
01:02but temperatures will be dropping off through the rest of this week.
01:06That's because a cold front is sweeping across the UK, attached to an area of low pressure.
01:11And the winds will really pick up through Wednesday.
01:14The isobars squeezing together and those winds coming down from the north introducing that cooler feel.
01:19So there's that cold front, some early rain across East Anglia in the southeast.
01:23Hopefully it'll scoot away quite quickly and then we'll see some sunshine across the south during Wednesday.
01:28But elsewhere with low pressure nearby, lots of showers, bands of the moving through and those winds really picking up.
01:34Could get very blustery on Wednesday over Northern Ireland and western Scotland in particular.
01:39That's something we'll be keeping a close eye on.
01:41And with the winds and the rain, it's going to feel chilly.
01:44Look at the temperatures may not get much above double figures across the western isles of Scotland.
01:49Further south, there'll be a cooler and fresher feel as well, despite some sunshine.
01:53Now, high pressure is trying to move back in through Wednesday night and Thursday, but the low is still hanging on to the northeast.
01:59The isobars still fairly closely packed together.
02:02So although the winds perhaps not as strong on Thursday, still quite gusty, especially on the east coast.
02:08And again, those winds coming down from the north or the northwest going to make it feel fresh.
02:11Despite a fair bit of sunshine around, there will be bands of showers as well, particularly initially in the west and the east.
02:18They may fade away, though, as we see a weather front bringing more persistent drizzly rain into the far northwest.
02:24That will actually then introduce slightly higher temperatures back up into the teens here, whereas elsewhere again,
02:30it's going to feel fresh despite some sunshine temperatures for the most part in the mid to high teens at best,
02:36with the winds still pretty noticeable through Thursday.
02:40High pressure is a bit closer by Friday, but then these weather fronts start to topple back further south once more.
02:45Now, there's a bit of uncertainty about the progress of these weather fronts through Friday and into the weekend,
02:51but they'll certainly bring a fair bit of cloud around and some outbreaks of showery rain drifting initially from the northwest down towards the south.
02:59Ahead of that weather front, we may see some brightness early on on Friday across East Anglia and the southeast,
03:04and it may brighten up across Scotland as the weather front clears through.
03:07But many southern and western areas looking fairly grey through Friday with outbreaks of rain and drizzle here and there.
03:15Now, as I said, there's a bit of uncertainty about the track of these weather fronts.
03:18There's high pressures trying to move in for the weekends, but with this weather front kind of draped somewhere across the south and west of the UK,
03:25always likely to stay fairly cloudy here.
03:28So the best of any brightness into the weekend, probably across the northeast, it's likely to still be on the cool side as well.
03:34And some showers are possible.
03:35It's a bit of a mishmash then as we go into the weekend.
03:37There's always a bit of uncertainty at this stage.
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