29/07/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there. It's been a relatively benign second half of July.

We haven't seen any particularly wet or windy spells of weather,

but things do look rather more active and unsettled

as we head through

into the first part of August.

Back to the here and now,

we've got a weather front

which is slipping its way slowly

south across the country

through the day on Friday,

so it will really be across the southern half

of England and Wales

that we'll see that weather front

bringing a fair amount of cloud

and some outbreaks of patchy rain.

As we head through the afternoon,

that cloud thins and breaks,

allowing some sunshine,

whereas further north

that's where we'll see

the lion's share of the sunshine,

with fresher but clearer conditions

piling in from the north-west.

So during Friday afternoon,

a few showers towards

the north-west of Scotland.

One of two for Northern Ireland,

but plenty of dry and settled weather.

Temperatures across the top half

of the country in the high teens,

perhaps 20 degrees or so.

Further south, it is little bit warmer,

but we've got the cloud

and the outbreaks of drizzly rain

at times across southern parts of Wales,

southern England too,

but there will be some brightness

and temperatures 22 or 23 degrees.

So still relatively mild here,

but what we will see

is cooler, fresher conditions piling in

from the north-west

spreading their way across

all of the country as we head through

into the early hours of Saturday.

So that front in the south dying away.

We've got clearer conditions

and certainly a little bit more comfortable

for sleeping after the relative humidity

that we've seen recently in the south.

So through the day on Saturday,

we've got a north-westerly flow

of air coming in, bringing some showers

to western Scotland,

perhaps Northern Ireland,

into North Wales and the north-west of England.

One or two cropping up further south too

and in the sunshine we could

still see 24 degrees or so.

Towards the north, though,

we're looking at the high teens.

So we're going to continue to see

that slight cooling trend

down to the fact that we've got

low pressure sitting out

to the north-east of the UK,

high pressure towards the south-west.

So the warm air that has been in place gradually gets pushed away

towards the near continent and we'll start the cooler conditions

filtering in from the north-west

through the course of the weekend.

So for Sunday, a similar day to Saturday.

Things are looking largely dry

with some sunshine.

Temperatures down a touch on recent days,

around 16 to perhaps 22 degrees,

just a few scattered showers

and spot the difference for Monday.

Another largely dry day with some sunshine,

a few showers cropping up.

Many of us avoiding them,

but those temperatures

certainly down on recent days

and we will have some pretty chilly nights.

So, as we head through the day on Tuesday,

we've got some weather fronts

starting to develop here

out in the Atlantic,

but before they get to our shores,

it's still an area of high pressure in charge.

So, for the most part,

Tuesday looks like another largely dry day

with some sunshine,

but from the west the cloud will increase

and that could bring some potentially heavy rain

to western and south-western parts

of the country to end the day.

So as we look into the middle of the week, then,

that big area of low pressure that we saw in the Atlantic looks

likely to move in from the west, giving some spells

of potentially heavy rain across around about Wednesday.

There could be warnings issued from the Met Office for that rain

at times fairly heavy.

It looks like it will move off towards the east

and what we're going to see from midweek onwards

is a real oscillation in the jet stream.

So the jet stream becomes more active,

it will move in from the Atlantic,

it will bring periods of warmer and dry weather,

but also, that jet stream will drive low pressure mainly out towards

the north and the north-west of the UK.

So as we head through the early part of August,

things will turn more unsettled

with wind and rain at times

mainly north-west, drier conditions

towards the south-east and after

the recent warmth and humidity,

temperatures look around average.

I'll have more tomorrow. Bye-bye.