15/05/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Such is the strength of sun at this time of year

that Saturday may actually have felt pretty warm

to some of you, but temperatures compared to last weekend

were a good 10 to 13 degrees down.

We've been on the wrong side

of an area of high pressure,

out to the west, we were on the cold side,

dragging down the winds from the Arctic,

and you felt that chill across eastern coasts

on Saturday, with a bit more cloud

and also breeze.

That's still there on Sunday,

but the breeze easing down a little bit,

high pressure has nudged in a bit closer to us.

It's also helped to bring in more cloud

to the far north of Scotland for Sunday.

A few showers in that, and a few afternoon showers

for northern England, the east Midlands,

towards East Anglia and potentially along

southern parts of Sussex and Kent.

But on the face of it, temperature values

much as they were during Saturday,

though it may feel warmer for some of you.

More cloud to end Sunday compared with Saturday,

and that cloud will stop the temperature

dropping away too much.

Notice the winds, though, starting to switch

into a westerly direction.

Sunday night into Monday, not as cold.

If you're going to see a frost,

it's going to be very, very isolated indeed.

Monday, we've still got that ridge of high pressure with us,

it's going to hold on,

keeping things largely dry,

but because we are not bringing the air down

from the north, more off the Atlantic,

it does mean it's going to bring

more cloud than we've been used to

through this weekend.

Whilst there will be sunny spells,

always a few cloudier moments during the day,

and yes, the chance of some showers,

very isolated, mainly across

northern parts of the UK

and perhaps down this eastern part as well,

but temperatures across eastern coast of Scotland,

eastern England, starting to rise.

And they will rise further through this week -

a warmer week in store for you, at least,

as we start to see the winds coming off the Atlantic.

That process starts as we go into Tuesday -

the high pressure sinks to the south of us,

will allow south-westerly winds to develop.

Very light at this stage, for the most part.

Sunniest across eastern areas,

clouding over in the west later,

some rain, particularly to the west of Scotland

and Northern Ireland later -

a few heavier bursts going into the evening.

But temperatures widely

in the mid to potentially high teens.

Now, as this weather front pushes through

the night into Wednesday,

we'll see some heavy bursts of rain here and there.

It's going to be a fairly showery feature

and same again on Wednesday -

occasional heavy, maybe thundery, showers.

The overriding thing, though, for Wednesday

is the wind strength - the windiest day

we have had for quite a while.

Temperatures still up, holding up into the mid-teens,

maybe dropping later on

as we start to pull in colder air

on the western flank of that low pressure system.

As we go into Thursday, though,

it all cruxes on where this is going.

There is a chance it may move to the south of us,

across northern France, southern England,

there's a chance it may develop into more of a low

and push across the central swathe of the UK.

At the moment, we're dealing with it

as an area of more persistent rain,

pushing through the Channel, some showers

and heavy spells of rain further north,

but a little sunshine in-between

and then things turn blustery later.

That is one aspect of the forecast

which could change.

Either way, what happens on Thursday,

towards the end of the week, into next weekend,

we have a Jet Stream which is set

to buckle its way across the UK

and, in doing so, it's set to bring

an area of low pressure our way,

which will bring some more wet and windy weather.

So, the general story for the week

is that temperatures will be rising, dragging the winds off the Atlantic,

so gone are the cool conditions of the weekend.

But windier weather than we have seen for a while

and also some wetter weather at times too.

But by the time we get into the following week,

signs are high pressure will

build in from the south-west.

It may bring further showers around,

and a rather cool flow from the north-west of the UK,

but with heat building across the near continent,

if that high pressure is a little further east,

we will drag warmth back our way,

and we'll keep you updated on that in the next few days.

They might tell me one of my twins has died.

They are not going to say that baby.

I don't know how he's going to come out of there.