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I have heard it said that when you | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
get a blizzard in America, it turns up on our doorstep a few days later. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
That actually turns out | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
to be something of an old wives' tale which means that what | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
we have seen in New York City in recent days is unlikely to | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
appear on the streets of London over the next few days. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
The reason for that is that we tend to get our intensely cold air | 0:00:19 | 0:00:23 | |
and our widespread snow when the wind is coming in from the east | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
or from the north, from the Arctic. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
When we have westerly winds, as we have had in recent days | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
and will continue to do, | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
any pulses of cold air tend to get heavily modified by the huge | 0:00:34 | 0:00:39 | |
expanse of the Atlantic Ocean which is relatively warm. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:44 | |
That means that, what starts off as snow stateside, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
will soon get warmed out and turn to rain. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
So this particular storm system is travelling across the Atlantic | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
rapidly and is warming out as I speak. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:57 | |
This means that what falls out of the sky over the next few | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
days will be wet rather than white. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
Wet and windy. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
Foul start to the day for many north-western areas, | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
with gusts over 60mph rattling up the Irish Sea. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
That could have an impact, as could the heavy rain. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
Couple of inches or more in some places. Met Office warnings in force. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
A wet and windy start across the north and the west, a dry and | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
bright start across the south-east but the rain will eventually arrive. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
It brightens up later on across Northern Ireland and Scotland, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
with a few showers. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
After a chilly start, temperatures will rise up | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
into double figures, courtesy of those mild westerly winds. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
And then a double whammy, potentially. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
As we go through Tuesday night and into Wednesday, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
another area of low pressure tracking across the north. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
The exact track of that is important because on the northern fringe | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
we could see some snow, mostly up over the high ground. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
A lot of wet weather and potentially some very strong winds | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
on the southern flank as well. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
So watch this space. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:52 | |
That clears through later on on Wednesday | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
and then we're into brighter conditions | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
but also colder conditions, | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
with some showers turning to snow, | 0:01:59 | 0:02:00 | |
particularly over the high ground of Northern Ireland and Scotland. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
But I'm not expecting widespread blizzards or anything like that | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
but it will be turning colder later on across the north-west. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
Into Thursday, something of a lull. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
Brighter skies for many with some pleasant sunshine. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
Temperatures not as high. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
Then we will see some more weather systems spreading rain | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
and strong winds into the north and the west. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
Another pulse of relatively mild air coming in off the Atlantic | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
before a cold front arrives later on in the day. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
So temperatures bouncing back up again on Friday, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
up into double figures quite widely. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
Then we will see a pulse of colder air following that frontal | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
system south-eastwards, so temperatures falling back down again, | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
into single figures in many places. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
Some sunshine but also some wintry showers, especially in the north. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
You get the idea that temperatures are going up and down like a yo-yo | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
and that is really the message for the week ahead. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
We'll see spells of wet and windy weather, | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
relatively mild conditions, then colder, | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
brighter conditions with overnight frost before the mild, | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
wet and windy weather spreads back in again. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
All courtesy of a pretty strong jet stream, | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
coming in from the Atlantic, coming in from the west. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
Hence no real potential for widespread snow or severe cold. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
So to sum up, next week, yet day-to-day fluctuations. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
Rapid changes, some sun, some rain, some wind. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
Snow possible, particularly over the high ground, | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
but certainly no widespread blizzards envisaged for some time to come. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:26 | |
That's it from me, I will update you again this time tomorrow. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 |