27/06/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

We certainly had a pretty changeable weekend with many places

seeing some thundery downpours on Saturday.

Then on Sunday,

we saw a band of more coherent rain work its way in from the west.

It remains pretty changeable for the next few days.

An unsettled week ahead of us with rain at times,

some of that rain quite heavy and that rain will also be

accompanied by some fairly brisk winds.

Not a particularly summery feel to the coming week.

We see some rain working its way south

and eastwards across England overnight.

It might linger first thing in the morning, but it won't last too long.

It will be out of the way pretty quickly.

Then for the southern half of the UK, bar the odd shower,

I think most places will have a dry day with variable cloud

and some sunshine.

A bit more in the way of showers as you head further north,

but still some spells of sunshine in between those showers,

for eastern side of Scotland.

There's always a bit more cloud and showers,

more frequent in the western side Scotland

15 degrees in Glasgow, 21 or 22 in the London area.

Looking ahead towards Tuesday -

We'll keep the winds coming in from the west.

It's this little area of low pressure which is set to bring some

rather wet to the south-west of UK the initially.

Notice a bit of a squeeze in the southern flank of the low.

We are going to see some pretty brisk winds in the south-west.

It could be getting pretty close to gale force and windy conditions

but also quite a bit of rain spreading up through the Irish Sea.

Some heavy showers breaking out in Scotland, northern England.

That wetter weather moving its way into the Midlands.

Notice, East Anglia and the south-east

stays dry through the early afternoon,

but it'll be the early evening when the rain works its way through here.

That first system moves away into the North Sea,

but hot on its heels, comes the next weather system.

By this stage, the ground would be pretty wet across the south

and west and there's more heavy rain.

So we're going to have to watch those rainfall totals over

the coming few days.

It'll be adding up day by day.

The rain affecting many areas during the day.

Underneath the cloud, wind and the rain,

a disappointing feel to things.

Temperatures are a few degrees lower than you might expect,

particularly across the northern half of the UK,

through the middle, towards the latter part of the week.

With low pressure firmly in charge.

That low is bringing the air all the way down from Iceland.

So, Thursday another unsettled day.

Breezy for all parts,

further rain across these western areas spreading further east.

Some eastern area staying driest for longest,

but I think we will all see some rain during the day on Thursday.

And again, not feeling all that pleasant in the wind and the rain.

Something of respite for the southern half of the UK,

at least, on Friday.

One or two showers moving through on the breeze,

but further north and west, in particular, we're

going to see further showers and some longer spells of rain.

If you look at the big picture across the North Atlantic

for the end of the coming week, and into the start of the weekend.

Perhaps not really going to change too much.

Low pressure in charge of our weather.

Further south, this is the Azores.

This high is on the southern flank,

on the warm side of the jet stream,

which snakes its way towards the south of UK.

We are on the cool side of the low pressure.

If the jet were to move north, it would bring this high with it

that would bring more settled and warmer weather.

But it looks like things aren't going to change too much

as we get on into the weekend.

Even on into the early part of July, the pattern remained the same,

with the jet stream to the south of UK, we stay on the cold

side of the jet and we've got low pressure in charge of our weather.

On into early July, we've still got low pressure in charge,

this iconic look to things.

It's always going to be wettest in the north-west of the UK,

a bit drier in the south-east.

But temperatures remain a little bit disappointing for most of us.

Goodbye now.