13/05/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

It's that time of day when we take a look further ahead at

the weather trends for the next six to ten days,

and whether the heat will continue. It has been another very warm day.

We had 25 degrees Celsius again in Porthmadog in north-west Wales,

West Freugh not far behind with 23.

A little cooler around some of the Scottish coast in the north

and we were plagued by cloud and showers in the Channel Islands.

Across south-west England it was quite low cloud at times

and some thunderstorms broke out -

eventually they rumbled their way through.

Overnight, temperatures will fall back to about

8 to 10 degrees Celsius under a blanket of cloud

moving in off the North Sea.

That's likely to be with us across some parts of England

and Wales first thing Friday morning.

It is a little bit grey first thing, could be

quite misty over the hills, certainly for East Wales,

across the Midlands, into the north and east of England.

Hopefully more sunshine to greet us across parts of Northern Ireland

but a cloudy start to the day across Scotland with a few showers,

and that is courtesy of a weak weather front.

It is not going to produce too much rain on it,

this cold weather front, but as the name suggests, it is going to

introduce colder air eventually right the way across the country.

So still that warm air is to the south

and we've still got a few showers to contend with, but fewer than we saw

during Thursday across the south-west and the Channel Islands.

But we will see notably lower temperatures further north -

still pleasant enough in the sunshine

but 10 degrees down on those of Thursday.

Still a lot of sunshine allowing the temperatures to really leap up

in the south and some unusually strong sunshine, actually,

for this time of year -

up into the high category even into Northern Ireland.

That cold weather front continues its progress southward

through Friday night. Behind it, the pressure is building, which is

why we won't see a great deal more than a few drizzly showers on it.

But what we will find is a much colder night as we head

towards dawn on Saturday with some ground frost around,

so gardeners beware.

Then, as we head into the weekend, it looks as if the west will

see the best of the sunshine, closer to the area of high pressure.

Further east there will be a little more cloud,

that breeze, just the odd shower.

But for the majority, even though

temperatures will be down on what they have been,

it will feel very pleasant outside the wind in the strong May sunshine.

Yes, the sunshine will just be as strong despite some

temperatures 10 degrees lower than we've seen in recent days.

Then a very similar story on Sunday.

So some really usable weather

if you have the weekend off and you want to get out and about

but just bear in mind there will be some strong sunshine.

So it is staying largely dry and fresh.

There will be variable cloud but some fine days, some sunshine.

It's just going to be chilly at night -

there could even be a touch of air frost in some of the Scottish glens.

But early next we should start to see things warming up a little bit.

That high pressure moves in, we lose the northerly breeze

and at this time of year the sun is so strong that it will

warm things up generally.

So there is that nose of high pressure coming back in for

the early part of the week and then low pressure starts to move in.

As that first one moves away, if you were watching last night,

John talked about the uncertainty as to where the areas of low pressure

will come following that.

It looks as if they are more likely to come towards

the north-west of the UK, so more cloud, I think,

around as we head through the latter part of the week.

But with that high pressure starting to nudge into southern

parts of the UK, it is here where we will see the more settled weather.

So it looks like an unsettled start to the week,

it tends drier midweek as those temperatures starts to rise,

high pressure comes in, but the north and west I think always

at risk of seeing some cloud and some rain on those weather fronts.

As ever, we'll keep you up-to-date here

and there's more across the website.