09/12/2015 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. The six to ten day forecast

shows no sign of any settled significant dry weather,

but there will be some dry interludes in between the rain.

Now Tuesday saw a day of sunny spells and scattered showers,

some of the showers heavy with hail and thunder,

but there were also some rainbows to be found as well.

I suspect during Wednesday, the weather story will be

the strength of the wind, with gales returning.

Severe gales expected, up into the far north and west

and here is where we're likely to see the significant rainfall.

So gusts of wind in excess of 70mph not out of the question

to the extreme north-west.

A drier interlude across the north of England,

particularly close to the Lake District.

Still some strong winds on exposed west-facing coasts of Wales

and a little more cloud here,

and even further inland, we could see gusts of winds over 30-35mph.

But there will be some sunny spells in there,

but add on the strength of the wind,

the temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees

will feel just that little bit cooler.

As we move out of Wednesday,

that wet and windy weather pushes its way south and east.

It's going to be a slow-moving frontal system,

but it looks as though the heaviest of the rain is likely

to be across Wales and the south-west of England.

Somewhat cooler, showery conditions following on behind

and still the winds very much a feature

into the far north of the country.

So we've got that frontal system to clear.

It is weakening all the time,

but it's going to be a pretty slow process for the start of Thursday.

Rather grey, wet and still pretty windy conditions easing away

to cooler showery conditions and, yes, we could see some sleet

and snow to the tops of higher ground in the far north of Scotland.

Here, 5 or 6 degrees, keeping those double figures down to the south.

That weather front does ease away,

but it's a little bit like a skipping rope,

meandering in the Channel coasts,

so we could see a little more in the way of cloud

and outbreaks of light rain just threatening the far south on Friday

and here we keep that milder air.

To the north, again those temperatures struggling.

It will be breezy and any showers to the higher ground

will keep that wintry flavour.

As we move towards the weekend, this area

of low pressure is really going to cause concern in terms

of its location over the course of the weekend.

At the moment, on Saturday,

it looks likely to stay down to the south,

but this is subject to change which means that predominantly,

we could see some dry, sunny weather further north but still rather cool.

The low may well just drift that way steadily

north during the second half of the weekend.

The isobars swing round to more of a southerly,

going in a vertical direction.

So that's going to drag in this milder air across the country,

pushing the cold air further north so we will start to notice

a difference to the feel of the weather

as we push out of Sunday into Monday.

But on the leading edge, there could be for a time some snow

to higher ground before that milder air kicks in.

Drier and brighter, with double figures down to the south.

Now, as well move into the six to ten day period,

that area of low pressure has to clear away.

The jet stream is meandering, it's weakening significantly,

but if that happens, it could just drive in this high pressure to the

south and that means that we could see some decent dry, bright weather,

with always the wettest

and the windiest of the weather likely the further north and west.

Towards the end of the six to ten day period, though,

the jet stream is likely to strengthen

and move back to a westerly, so unfortunately,

that's going to drive in more areas of low pressure and again,

we see a return to some wet and windy weather.

No settled story in sight.

What do we do with something like this?

Find our man.