Week ahead - Hot spell on the way
The mercury will be rising this week with the first hot spell of the year along with the heat many places will see plenty of sunshine but it wont be blue skies for all as Alex Deakin explains.
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00:00Welcome to the weather for the week ahead from the Met Office.
00:03It's going to be an interesting week of weather
00:05as well, the first hot spell of weather of the year
00:08for some parts of the country.
00:10And temperatures generally building right
00:12across the UK as high pressure will dominate.
00:15It is dominating, but it's not controlling everything.
00:18At times, weather fronts toppling in from the Atlantic
00:21will bring more cloud and patchy rain
00:23to western parts of Scotland.
00:25But as this high starts to amble its way to the east,
00:29we tap into a plume of even hotter air from the south.
00:33And that will see the temperatures peaking
00:34across the country on Friday.
00:37OK, let's rewind the clock and go through day by day
00:41because the high is controlling things
00:43for most parts of the country as we head into Tuesday.
00:45A coolish start, actually, and we'll
00:48see a fine and sunny day for most.
00:50But one or two scattered showers still possible
00:51over northern England, southern Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
00:54Very hit and miss.
00:55We will see thicker cloud and rain
00:57at times over the Highlands and the Western Isles
00:59and maybe Shetland also.
01:01Early patchy rain across northeast Scotland
01:02should tend to fizzle out.
01:04And then more sunshine for England and Wales
01:06compared to Monday and higher temperatures as a result.
01:08High teens, low 20s for most, perhaps
01:11skidding up to 24 across the southeast
01:14compared to 13 or 14 across the Western Isles
01:17where there'll be a fairly brisk wind and outbreaks of rain
01:20coming and going throughout the day.
01:22We'll see more thick cloud in the northwest
01:24from these weather fronts, which continue
01:26to push against our area of high pressure
01:28as we head into Wednesday.
01:30But again, the high is dominant for most
01:32and there'll be plenty of sunshine around.
01:35Certainly across England, Wales, southern and eastern parts
01:38of Scotland.
01:38Northern Ireland may cloud over a little bit on Wednesday,
01:41but still sunny spells likely in Belfast.
01:44And temperatures just ticking up that little bit further day
01:48on day as the strong sun gets to work.
01:51And that sun is strong.
01:53UV levels likely to be high or very high.
01:55And grass pollen levels also high or very high
01:58through this week.
01:59But the main focus is on those temperatures.
02:01As I said, ticking up day on day up into the southeast,
02:04maybe 27, 28 degrees Celsius into the mid 20s
02:08over the Midlands.
02:09Again, some of the coasts will be cooler.
02:11And of course, it will be cooler in the far northwest
02:13where there will be thicker cloud and patchy rain at times.
02:19OK, let's fast forward to Thursday.
02:21And temperatures, again, getting into 27, 28 degrees
02:25across the southeast compared to just 14 or 15
02:27across the northwest.
02:28So quite a contrast.
02:29It's not going to be hot and sunny everywhere.
02:31But for many places, Thursday will bring plenty of blue sky.
02:35Again, the coasts will be a little bit cooler.
02:38But across the northwest, we will
02:39have this weather front which will bring clouds and at times
02:43some outbreaks of rain just threatening
02:45to increase the cloud across the northeast of Scotland,
02:47perhaps at times northern Ireland.
02:49So showers can't be completely ruled out here.
02:51But central belt probably dry and fine along
02:54with eastern Scotland and certainly for most of England
02:56and Wales.
02:57Sunny skies and temperatures, as we've
02:59seen, up into the mid or even high 20s in places.
03:04And that's not the peak of the temperatures.
03:05That is likely to be on Friday.
03:08The high pressure just waddling away to the east,
03:11allowing us to tap into a plume of hotter air
03:15spreading up from Iberia.
03:17And that means temperatures on Friday
03:19are likely to be quite widely in the mid to even high 20s
03:23across England and Wales and probably peak
03:26across the southeast over 30 degrees Celsius.
03:2932, 33 is possible, most likely in the north London area
03:34up towards Cambridge.
03:35But again, you can see quite a contrast
03:38between the southeast and the northwest
03:40where temperatures will be only in the mid teens.
03:42But for many places, Friday will be the warmest day of the year
03:47so far and temperatures into the mid to high 20s.
03:50That high pressure continues to edge away
03:53as we go into the weekend.
03:54It will allow this weather front,
03:55it looks like, to push southwards.
03:57That does bring some uncertainty about how many showers
04:00we see on this weather front and whether it introduces
04:02the cool air everywhere.
04:03Still the potential for the heat to persist across the south
04:07into Saturday.
04:08As I said, quite a bit of uncertainty around that.
04:11But certainly by the end of the weekend,
04:12it looks like most of the UK will be in the cooler air.
04:15But for this week, strong sunshine, high UV levels
04:19along with high pollen levels.
04:20The heat building and peaking probably on Friday,
04:24but a bit of uncertainty about how many showers
04:25we see into the weekend and the timing
04:28of that cooler air returning.
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