07/07/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. Huge weekend of events coming up,

which we'll look at in more detail shortly.

But before we get on with that, been talking about the summer

over the past few days, if you're wondering where that's been hiding

recently - it's certainly been across Iberia,

temperatures so far this week

peaked around 45 degrees - inland Spain,

into the Balearics and around in Almeria we've got 34 or 35 degrees.

Sparking off some storms inland, as it will do again on Thursday.

Over the next few days, though, we're going to see the heat

build again, especially into the weekend.

We're tapping into a little bit more warmth ourselves at the moment,

because winds are coming up from the south-west,

so after a milder start to Thursday, once the sun is out it

feels very pleasant but not much sun across some parts of

northern England, Wales and then later into the south-west,

wriggling weather front here bringing some occasional rain,

mainly on western hills. A lot of you will be dry but lots

of showers in the far north of Scotland

and a blustery breeze with it.

In the sunshine, temperatures into the 20s, though feeling more

humid the further south-east you are.

And quite a muggy night through Thursday night and into Friday.

Across southern areas, all that cloud will be in place,

further north the showers get more frequent again into Scotland.

And Like we start Thursday, we'll start Friday with temperatures

in many places in the mid teens.

But it's a bit of a messy set-up for Friday - got an area

of low pressure pushing across the north. Lots of cloud elsewhere.

Potentially a trailing weather front down across southern parts of

England and Wales.

And so that means this'll probably be a very cloudy zone through

the day, a few glimpses of brightness,

but one or two showers coming and going on that.

The odd heavy one never too far away from Wimbledon.

Midlands, Wales northwards - after some heavy showers,

especially across Scotland to begin with,

afternoon looking dry and bright for a time, before

that big area of low pressure we've been talking about all week,

comes towards us. It's going to squeeze out the humid

and warm air that bit quicker than we were anticipating 24 hours ago,

so maybe not quite as warm on Saturday across eastern areas.

And it does mean weather fronts push through quicker,

but that's a significant area of low pressure to the north-west.

Could see widespread gales across parts of western Scotland,

Northern Ireland - the heaviest, most persistent of the rain.

Starts wet in East Anglia and the south-east,

that hopefully will clear to sunny spells across the rest of England

and Wales but that weather front could trail close to the south.

So, a big weekend of sports and events.

If you're heading to T in the Park, Scottish Open, you'll certainly

need waterproofs on Saturday - rain at times here,

maybe a little bit brighter for Sunday. The grand prix and

Wimbledon always looking a little more promising for drier weather,

but showers never going to be too far away, and with that uncertainty

about how close the front is Saturday into Sunday, be

prepared, there could be some heavy rain, especially across the south.

That should hopefully clear, though, through Sunday,

sunny spells, isolated showers by this stage. Blustery day across

the board, temperatures have dropped down from what we've seen

through the week and we'll see frequent showers for many,

most persistent in northern Scotland. But as I said,

Scottish Open, you might get a bit of shelter. That low pressure

gradually pulls away as we start next week, but it just opens

the door to north-westerly winds to begin the new working week.

So, OK, nice enough in the sunshine, in the breeze feeling cooler

than this week,

showers pushing from north-west to south-east on that flow.

Some of you will miss them altogether,

but some of the showers could be heavy and thundery at times.

So we start with that north-westerly flow to begin with,

but it does look like high pressure will gradually build in from the

Azores during the days that follow, but only a brief ridge of

high pressure, because wet and windy weather then builds in

for the middle part of the week once again.

Some of that could be associated with a deep area of low pressure,

which whips through, and then we're back to high pressure building in.

So, a very changeable week next week, after what has been

a changeable summer so far. Darren Bett will have more,

same time tomorrow.

Gregg and Chris are back to help us slash the weekly food bill.

Let's get to work.

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