Week ahead – Will it get any warmer?
Another chilly week ahead with morning frosts in rural areas and day time temperatures below average. There’ll be sunny spells in all locations but also we’ll all see showers this week and it may well turn wet and windy for the weekend.
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00:00Hello. Welcome to your weather for the week ahead from the Met Office. The first full
00:04week of May promises more cold and chilly days and frosty nights as well. The weather
00:11is going to remain chopping and changing every day, different and different in different
00:15locations as well. There will be some sunshine, but there will also be plenty of showers around
00:21as well. Changeable weather, showery weather, we're talking low pressure. One just clearing
00:25away to the east, another one brewing up out in the Atlantic. And this was the one
00:30that brought the wet and windy weather for many through Bank Holiday Monday. It is pulling
00:34away, but behind it we've still got these cold northerly winds and still a fairly brisk
00:39wind, certainly around the coast, through the heart of the country, though, where the
00:42winds are a little lighter on Wednesday morning. Tuesday night there will be again a frost.
00:48Lots of showers across Wales and southwest England in the morning, wintry showers over
00:52northern Scotland. And although we'll have plenty of sunshine come the morning across
00:56northern England to eastern England, here too showers will develop through the day.
01:01A brisk wind, not as strong as Tuesday's and Monday's winds, but still noticeably fresh
01:07in that wind as temperatures struggle to get beyond double digits, maybe into the teens
01:12across the south with a bit of sunshine between the showers. But when the showers come along,
01:17it will feel colder. And in that breeze, it will feel colder as well. That weather system
01:22continues to pull away only slowly as we go to Wednesday night. And then we're looking
01:25at this tangle of weather fronts just threatening the far southwest. Some uncertainty about
01:29the track of this, but it could bring some wet weather across the far south on Thursday.
01:33At the same time, another little feature heading into Scotland that will have some snow on
01:38it again over hills, but down to relatively low levels for a time. And in between, we've
01:44got clear skies and cold air. So again, a fairly extensive frost on Thursday morning
01:50in rural areas. There's that rain across the south, say some uncertainty about how far
01:54north it gets could affect the south coast of England for a time. And as that band of
02:00showery rain pushes south into northern England, there'll be snow over the Pennines certainly.
02:05Temperatures again struggling, but the winds are lighter and there should be a bit more
02:09sunshine around on Thursday. So perhaps feeling just a little bit milder, a bit of a mishmash
02:15as we go into Thursday and Friday. There are weather systems just brewing up down to the
02:20southwest. The isobars continuing to open out across the UK, which means the winds will
02:25be lighter, which means again that will allow a frost to form in the countryside on Friday
02:30morning and there will be then showers developing through the day, although many places will
02:35be dry and fine on Friday morning. There will be showers across Scotland, northern England
02:40and then we'll see them developing across Northern Ireland and other parts of the UK
02:43come the afternoon. But temperatures creeping up a little bit by Friday. Winds are lighter
02:48as well. So if we get some sunshine and it stays dry, it shouldn't feel too bad on Friday.
02:53However, behind me, there's something brewing, an area of low pressure intensifying out in
02:59the Atlantic. And while this could be quite an intense one as well again for the time
03:04of year, dissimilar to the one we saw on Bank Holiday Monday, low pressure swinging in the
03:09isobars pinching together, telling us it's going to be windy and these weather fronts
03:12will be bringing rain. Now, this is a few days away. So the timing and intensity of
03:17the low still subject to change, but it will bring, I think, a spell of wet and windy weather
03:22sweeping across the country at some point on Saturday. Further north, you are the better
03:27chance of starting dry at least. And also temperatures notice are creeping up, but obviously
03:33it's not going to feel all that mild with the wet and windy weather swinging in. But
03:37yes, some warmer air tucked into these weather fronts. Will it last? Well, no, because that
03:42cold front swings that warmer air away at some point during Sunday. And then we're just
03:47left with low pressure, cooler weather and a mixture of sunshine and blustery showers
03:52again for Sunday. So a spell of wet and windy weather across the country. I say some uncertainty
03:56about the timing. So stay tuned over the next few days for updates on that, followed by
04:02blustery showers. Best way to keep up to date with the Met Office, of course, is to follow
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