Week ahead – More showers, any sunshine?
This week will be dominated by low pressure and we’ll all see some ominous skies over the next few days. Later in the week sunnier weather may well return to the south Alex Deakin ha the details.
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00:00Welcome to your weather for the week ahead from the Met Office.
00:03Plenty going on this week.
00:04There are signs of calmer, drier weather
00:06towards the end of the week.
00:08But certainly for the time being, expect showers,
00:11mostly across the east on Monday afternoon
00:13from this weather front.
00:14But then as this one moves in, they'll
00:16mostly be across western areas during the course of Tuesday.
00:20And then this low pressure just kind of sits in and dominates
00:24our weather, bringing lots of showers for all areas
00:26on Wednesday and Thursday.
00:28Beyond that, however, we could just
00:30start to see that area of low pressure edging away,
00:33allowing higher pressure to build in,
00:35certainly across the south, where
00:37things should be turning drier, sunnier, and a bit warmer
00:40as we head towards the weekend.
00:41But always these weather fronts threatening more cloud and rain
00:44across the north and the west.
00:47OK, let's rewind, come back to Tuesday's forecast
00:50when we're definitely still in the influence
00:52of this area of low pressure.
00:53This weather front moving in, bringing
00:55quite a bit of persistent rain, actually, on Tuesday.
00:57Certainly initially for Northern Ireland,
00:58but lasting for most of the day across western Scotland,
01:01particularly in the southwest of Scotland,
01:03where there is a Met Office yellow warning in place.
01:05That rain will spread into western parts of England
01:08and Wales by the afternoon.
01:10But actually, for much of central England,
01:12much of eastern England, it's a fine day on Tuesday.
01:15Drier than Monday, brighter with some sunny spells.
01:18And it's in the east where we'll see the top temperatures,
01:2123, maybe 24 Celsius.
01:22That'll feel pretty warm, whereas further west
01:25with the cloud and the rain, increasing wind.
01:27We're only looking at temperatures in the high teens.
01:29The persistent rain should clear from Northern Ireland,
01:31but we're looking at some heavy showers
01:33here during the afternoon.
01:35Quite blustery conditions, too.
01:37An area of low pressure then dominates
01:38through the middle of the week.
01:39The ice bar is still pretty close together.
01:42Just swirling around it, we're going to see bands of showers
01:46moving across the UK.
01:47So on Wednesday, there's two areas
01:49we're keeping a close eye on, parts of northeast England,
01:52where the showers, particularly come the afternoon
01:55and evening, could turn very heavy indeed.
01:58And out towards the southwest, where
02:00there's the potential for thunderstorms as well.
02:02Elsewhere, the showers are a bit more scattered,
02:03a bit more hit and miss.
02:04So decent chance of dry and brighter weather
02:07for Western Scotland.
02:08Certainly a brighter day here compared to Tuesday.
02:11Northern Ireland as well.
02:12And not too many showers, probably
02:13across East Anglia and the southeast,
02:15where again, we could see temperatures in the mid-20s,
02:18whereas most of us are looking at 20 degrees at best,
02:21and more typically in the high teens.
02:24The low still with us on Thursday.
02:26There is just a bit of uncertainty
02:28about a plume of warmer air, bringing some thundery showers
02:32close to eastern England.
02:33At the moment, it looked like they'll stay out in the North
02:36Sea, but that's something we need to keep an eye on.
02:38Generally, under the influence of that low pressure,
02:40it is going to be another day where
02:42there'll be a bit of sunshine, but there'll
02:44be a lot of showers.
02:45And nowhere immune from those showers,
02:47I don't think, during Thursday.
02:49And again, some of them could be pretty heavy.
02:51With the ice bars opening up, the wind's not as strong,
02:54which means the showers will be more slow-moving.
02:56So the potential for them to cause some more disruption.
03:00That low pressure just starting to fill further
03:04as we head into Friday.
03:05The area of high pressure just starting
03:07to exert its influence across the South.
03:10So although Friday is still a day of showers,
03:12I think there's a good chance that the South
03:15and East of England won't see too many at all
03:17and stay mostly dry, as the showers
03:19will be focused further north and west,
03:21again, closer to that area of low pressure.
03:23Again, temperatures generally around or a touch below average
03:27and feeling cooler when the showers come along.
03:29But that high pressure does look like influencing things
03:32a little more across the South, in particular,
03:35as we head into the weekend.
03:36The position of these weather fronts
03:38open to some doubt at this stage,
03:40but stay up to date if you've got plans for the weekend.
03:43But generally, the north and west
03:45looking as if it'll be cloudy with some outbreaks of rain
03:47further south and east into the weekend.
03:49Decent chance of something drier, brighter,
03:52and a little bit warmer.
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