27/03/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello, thanks for tuning in.

The weather's not looking great out there, is it?

Lots of rain, strong winds too, and that's how it's going to remain

for the rest of the Easter weekend and into most of next week as well.

We'll see spells of wind and rain crossing the UK.

In fact, Monday could be particularly stormy

across the south-east of the country.

Here's the jet stream and the clouds

pushed in by the jet stream, or the weather system.

You can see this dip in the jet stream here,

areas of low pressure being spinned up there across the North Atlantic

and hurled in our direction by this strong jet stream

and Easter Monday itself is going to be a blustery one.

We've got quite strong south-westerly winds across the UK.

Initially, there'll be some showers in the morning

across many western areas of the UK,

then through the course of the afternoon,

this strong south-westerly wind

is going to push those showers further inland

and also further east as well.

Let's start the forecast for the afternoon.

Easter Day, then, three o'clock in the south.

You can see some sunshine around too,

but these showers could be quite heavy.

They could appear suddenly,

there could be some hail and thunder as well and within,

those winds will be particularly gusty, blustery,

so temperatures of around six to ten degrees,

really will feel quite chilly

and plenty of those showers scattered around across Scotland

and Northern Ireland as well, but if you're sheltered from the wind

and you're in the sunshine, it shouldn't feel too bad at all.

This is into Easter Monday itself,

so Easter Day evening into Easter Monday.

This is Storm Kate.

It's been given a name because it could be quite a nasty storm

and it does look as though at this stage,

it's heading to southern parts of the UK,

anywhere from central southern England,

the south-east of England.

We could have severe gales, so if you're travelling early,

very early on Monday morning,

just be aware that the conditions on the roads could be very nasty.

These are the early hours

of the morning on Easter Monday.

Some very heavy rain. You can see where the gales are here.

Not just round the coasts, but very windy inland too.

By lunchtime, that storm blows itself out,

it moves out into the North Sea and behind it, still a rush of wind,

but at least there'll be some sunshine.

So that's across the south of the country.

Further north, certainly from north Midlands northwards,

the weather's actually not looking bad at all on Easter Monday itself.

Then Tuesday, another fairly breezy day.

You can see the south-westerly winds,

there'll be some showers around, perhaps the odd heavier one.

On balance, a better day compared to Monday.

At least, the morning will be,

but still, not a completely dry one.

Then the middle part of the week,

we're sort of in between weather systems.

This is Tuesday night into Wednesday.

You can see fronts fairly close to the UK.

So are the low pressures,

so that basically means that Wednesday's

kind of an in-betweeny day.

There'll be some cloud around,

there'll be one or two outbreaks of rain,

but also plenty of dry weather in between,

so the detail's pretty uncertain for Wednesday itself,

but at least it doesn't look like it's going to be

a complete wash-out and if anything, there'll be some sunshine.

That fine, or hint of fine weather,

actually continues into Thursday,

this area of high pressure from the Azores builds,

things settle down.

The far north of the country, certainly northern Scotland

and the Northern Isles, perhaps some rain and stronger winds,

but for the rest of the UK, apart from the odd shower,

it shouldn't be too bad,

but weather fronts waiting out there in the Atlantic,

heading our way, so that means that the end of the week ahead

is looking pretty unsettled with further wind and rain

and the longer-term outlook, so later next week,

it does look as though high pressure will be close

to eastern parts of the UK, where it might be more settled,

but low pressures will be once again heading our way,

so that means unsettled.

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It was recorded last night after I had a few pints.

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