06/08/2014 Weather for the Week Ahead

Thanks for tuning in to our extended weather forecast.

If you've been watching the extended forecasts in the last

couple of days, you'll know there's been much

talk about the weekend weather linked to a tropical storm,

Tropical Storm Bertha, which is kind of heading our way.

We'll have a look at that in a second.

In the short-term, we have rain on the way.

That's going to be affecting us during Wednesday,

particularly in the morning, the rain will be heavy across the Southeast.

It'l turn wet, across parts of Scotland as well.

But the bulk of the day will dry out across the UK

so that much of Wales and England

should have a fine day on Wednesday

afternoon with highs of 26 in London and 20C in Newcastle.

So a wet morning followed by a much brighter afternoon.

So that's Wednesday. How about Thursday?

We're actually in a window of fine weather.

The rain we would have had on Wednesday is out in the North Sea.

And we are in this sort of spell of much better weather.

It's what we call a ridge of high pressure, so that means

the air is sinking, the weather is much quieter

and the winds are lighter.

For most of us it is a pleasant day with some hazy sunshine.

Again, fairly pleasant temperatures for most of us in the low 20s

in a number of areas.

But, for example in the Southeast,

will have the highest value,

25 in London and around 18C in Glasgow.

There will be a few showers around but not too many.

Into Friday, this area of low pressure across France

and the Bay of Biscay is something which will upset

the weather across the Southeastern portion of the UK.

There is much uncertainty at the moment how much

rainfall there is going to be.

We think that around about here we could have a period of heavy

rain and gusty winds.

Clearly you can see there's some bright weather as well

across more Western parts of the country but it is

uncertain exactly where this band of rain and how far West it will get.

As we head into Saturday,

again that is one area of low pressure here, another one here.

We will talk about this one in a second.

We're in between weather systems so once again,

the weather will quieten down a bit on Saturday. Not for everybody.

We are close to an area of low pressure in the Northwest.

That means across Northern Ireland

and Scotland there will be a few showers.

But across the bulk of the UK, we should have some dry weather

with highs in the low 20s, possibly up to 24 in the London area.

Before the Sunday forecast, I will show you what's been

happening across the Eastern seaboard of the United States.

This is actually Tropical Storm Bertha,

it was a hurricane this time yesterday.

As we go over the next few days, the storm is going to track across

the Atlantic, move into the North Atlantic and it will start to decay.

You can see these uncertainty circles so where

the centre of the storm is going to be is very close,

on the top of the UK.

This is what it looks like on Sunday.

You'll notice there is a lot of rain in the south of the country.

This is where we think the storm may well be.

I say storm loosely, it may just be a bit of a breeze with cloud

and rain or it could be something a bit more dramatic.

We will keep you posted nearer the time. It is still a long way off.

After that bad weather clears, there is going to

be much uncertainty on Monday.

It depends what is going to happen on Sunday itself.

It will settle down.

The driest of the weather will be across southern parts of the country.