19/02/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello, thanks for tuning in, time to have a look at the weather

for the next few days and there will be quite a lot of changeable

weather as we go over the next seven days or so.

Starting with the short-term, we've got

some wind and rain heading our way, it's visible on the satellite

some icy patches first thing on Friday morning

but very quickly the weather is expected to go downhill.

So let's see what happens through the early hours of Friday morning.

Clouds thicken across many western areas here.

But in advance of this weather front, quite a widespread frost with

some icy patches here and there.

I don't think the temperatures will be falling widely below freezing

in many of the major towns and cities

but certainly in rural spots it will be pretty cold.

So onto Friday morning's rush hour then,

the wet and windy weather certainly setting into the Western Isles

of Scotland, a bit of snow across the Highlands here,

not a pleasant start for Northern Ireland by any means,

three degrees with outbreaks of rain.

Can just about see that cloud and the bits

areas but across the bulk of England it's a cold, crisp start.

but very quickly through the morning the weather is going to go

Certainly by the time we get to lunchtime, it will be

but it does look as though the extreme south-east

and East Anglia perhaps staying dry, at least through

quite literally, the North Atlantic in half. To the

which is a weather front - and we've got cloud, wind and rain

and unfortunately it looks as though this weather front will be

sliding, quite possibly, roughly along the same place,

around the same place through the course of the weekend which

means that we could see some heavy rain around

Wales into parts of north-western England into Cumbria as well.

So if you're stuck underneath this weather front it could be

raining all through the weekend and a big temperature contrast, as well,

between the north and south.

Here's the copycat conditions on Sunday,

again the weather front sliding through the UK

but I think on Sunday it looks as though maybe more northern areas,

perhaps Lancashire and certainly Cumbria getting a good dose of rain.

But that temperature contrast really will be evident - from five

degrees in Glasgow to perhaps 14 in the south of the UK.

So nearly a ten-degree drop from north to south.

Now, early next week,

it does look as though that milder air that would have

sat across the south of the UK, will retreat a little bit further

southwards and we're going to get a shot,

at least temporarily, of colder air and some calmer,

more crisp conditions as a little high pressure develops.

And we will see round that high pressure,

the cold air coming in once again.

So early next week, I think, some cold mornings on the way,

perhaps some wintry showers across northern areas

and the winds will certainly feel on the chilly side.

And as we go through the week, the middle part of the week,

that area of high pressure should zip away briefly,

so it's only a transient high, that means it doesn't stick around for

very long, and then instead, towards the end of next week,

we start to see

an area of low pressure coming in, pushing mild southwesterlies.

So that means that later next week, from that cold and crisp weather,

we'll get milder conditions with some wet and windy weather.

So it looks as though the weather will be very

changeable in the next five to seven days.

Thanks for watching.