27/11/2015 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. After a largely dry and very mild day on Thursday,

as we head towards the end of this working week,

things are turning colder with the arrival of plenty of rain.

We've got an active cold front on Friday, initially across

Northern Ireland and Scotland with some squally winds and heavy rain.

That will edge its way southwards and eastwards as we head through the day.

Towards the south and east of the country we'll stick with

the mild and mainly dry theme, but if we look around the country,

and squally winds across parts of the south-west of England and Wales.

Through the Midlands, into eastern parts of England,

there could be some brightness around and temperatures up to 12 degrees,

relatively mild, but Northern England, that's where we'll see

heavy outbreaks of rain, some squally winds too.

For Northern Ireland and Scotland, after the morning's rain,

by the afternoon things will brighten up, some showers around

and some of those showers pretty wintry

across parts of Scotland in particular

and it is turning much colder behind that active cold front.

That pushes out of the way,

so the rain and wind pushing out of eastern parts of England

through the early hours of Saturday, then we're looking at drier

and clearer conditions, but wintry showers across Scotland,

down to lower levels as we head through the early hours of Saturday.

So, things are looking pretty unsettled through the weekend

and that's because we have a strong jet stream,

the winds at upper levels pushing west to east across the Atlantic,

so a fairly straight line, the jet stream at the moment,

and that will drive successive weather fronts across the country,

so tight isobars as we move through into the first part of the weekend

and the arrival of these frontal systems,

so eastern areas on Saturday likely to start off dry,

but rain and hill snow pushing across much of the country west to east

as we head through the course of the day.

It will be falling mainly as rain across the bulk of the country

but the hills of Scotland seeing some significant snowfall.

Temperature-wise, around about 5-10 Celsius

but certainly feeling a bit colder than that in those strong winds.

Into the second half of the weekend,

the unsettled theme certainly sticking around -

windy, as you can see, with tight isobars.

The next area of low pressure approaches on Sunday

but it's likely that will be further north,

so it will be north-western parts of the country seeing the bulk

of the wet weather during Sunday. Further south and east, a drier story

and a little milder with temperatures up to around 13 degrees in London.

Looking ahead, very strong winds for a time across parts of Scotland

as that low pressure clears away towards the north and the east, then

we have these trailing weather fronts heading back across the Atlantic,

so through the day on Monday it looks like we'll have

a spell of very heavy rain for a time through some central parts of the UK.

To the south of that, things are looking mild,

chillier air in charge further north.

So, a similar story as we now move through Monday and into Tuesday,

the next frontal system approaching from the Atlantic,

a deepening area of low pressure here.

To the north of that, with a ridge of high pressure,

dry and chilly for the north of Scotland

but this rain further south moving north through the day.

There could be a period of hill snow again through the course of Tuesday

but milder conditions pushing in from the south-west.

Then as we head through early December,

so the middle to the end of next week,

it looks like we'll start to see the jet stream becoming more buckled,

and as it buckles it will lose a little bit of its intensity

and speed, so things will look less unsettled, I think,

as we head through early December.

Still some low pressure around, mainly to the north of the UK,

but a hint now that we will start to see high pressure just nudging in

from the south to take charge of our weather for some southern parts

as we head through the first part of December.

So still some spells of rain and breezy conditions,

particularly towards the north-west of the country.

It does look like some drier conditions are likely

towards the south and east with a chance of some patchy frost.

Lots happening. Keep tuned to your latest forecast. Bye-bye.

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