14/07/2014 Weather for the Week Ahead

In the next ten days we're going to get just about everything

a British summer can throw at us.

Bit of rain, higher temperatures, higher humidity, thunderstorms too.

We'll get to all of that. First, the next five days in detail.

And for Northern Ireland and Western Scotland tomorrow will be

turning wetter where elsewhere after

a sunny start it will be cloud increasing.

But still some sunny spells around.

Let's take a look at things into the afternoon.

Some patchy outbreaks of rain feeding into Wales and Western England.

More to West facing hills.

If you're to the East of high ground I don't think you'll see much at all.

The rain in Northern Ireland begins to ease away in time for the evening.

Still looking pretty wet in Western Scotland.

Especially on the hills here.

Some of the rain will start to feed its way East across Scotland

but not as much as you're going to see in the West.

You'll hold on to the dry weather for the longest here.

Although for Central and Eastern England cloud is going to build,

there will be breaks in that cloud into the afternoon.

It will still be dry.

And in that sunshine

when it makes an appearance it will feel pleasantly warm.

That's a look around the weather for Monday afternoon.

On Monday night the rain spreads its way Southeast.

Not a huge amount left for the gardens of England

once it moves on through

but still lingering towards the Southeast

of England on Tuesday morning to give a damp start in places.

With more cloud around it will not be as fresh to start

Tuesday as it will be on Monday.

For Tuesday that weather front is for a time in Southeast England.

Some low cloud, poor visibility, damp and drizzly weather to begin the day.

It pushes away and things slowly improve.

Elsewhere the ridge of high pressure giving plenty of fine weather.

Just one or two showers running across Northern parts of the UK

And some warmth in the sunshine with high teens, low 20s.

Potentially into the mid 20s in the warm spots in Southeast England.

Some more fronts come our way on Wednesday.

and Scotland with some outbreaks of rain.

For England and Wales we will start to notice

a change in the feel of the weather.

Temperatures edging up but more significantly higher humidity too.

It will start to feel a bit sultry on Wednesday.

Scotland and Northern Ireland turning more showery.

Going into Thursday that pushes away.

So the fine weather extends back across the UK.

Along with the higher heat and humidity, as well.

It's particularly for England and Wales

we'll see the stickiest conditions and it could be on Thursday

that somewhere gets to 30C for the first time this summer.

And it could well be towards the Midlands.

Then there's a change right at the end of the week.

A thundery breakdown as an area of low pressure feeds in some

potentially disruptive downpours.

There's some uncertainty about the detail in terms of positioning

and timing.

But have it in your mind now that things could turn quite nasty in some

spots on Friday and it will still be very warm with high humidity.

Let's take a look at the extended period.

That takes us into the weekend and the start of the following week.

It looks as if instead of looking to the South for our weather and that

heat from Spain we will turn Southwesterly towards the Atlantic.

That means that thundery breakdown will extend into next weekend.

The heat will slowly subside but it will still be rather humid.

Still warm when the sun makes an appearance.

But the showers will stay with us into the start of the following week.

So increasingly unsettled once again. Bye-bye.

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