12/08/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Good evening, it's time to update you on our thoughts for next week

and the heat that is on its way, and what happens thereafter.

But for the time being, let's have a look at what we've seen during

Thursday, the weather fronts have given us quite

a bit of rain, they are still around with us

on Friday in the north and the west in particular.

Tightly packed isobars, so if you're up first thing in

the morning, you'll notice the wind,

particularly across Scotland, Northern Ireland and

northern England, and that 100mm indicative of what

we've seen falling through Thursday, Thursday night and into Friday.

So, as I say, some gusty winds particularly to the east of

the Pennines, east of the Grampians,

across Northern Ireland,

driving that rain onto the hills and again just adding to those

totals, so not a day for heading out into the hills, and obviously

that will temper the feel of things,

with temperatures only 16 to 19, but with more sunshine than

we saw on Thursday in the south, it will be warmer still.

And a fine evening, it's just that then as we go through Friday night

we see the rain trundling southwards.

Not a great deal on it except across the Welsh hills,

and showers follow.

A fresher feel but again, quite a warm night in the south with

all the cloud, low cloud, hill fog as well,

and the drizzly rain.

But eventually, that should break up,

most of us will have some sunshine and

a lot of dry weather this weekend, and of course it's August

so it will feel warm as the Winds start to ease out.

But you can still see there's a brisk breeze in the far north

of the country, starting to blow that weather front away, although we

do linger with some cloud across southern counties of the country.

Southern England, south Wales, first thing Saturday morning -

some drizzly rain, but for most of us sunny spells and

a scattering of showers and very few showers getting into eastern

Scotland, across the Midlands, into the north of England as well.

So it will feel pleasant enough in that sunshine, 16 to 18,

because it's fresher air.

Still got quite a bit of cloud in the south but I think it will

be dry and bright for the most part.

Then we do, through Saturday night, say goodbye to that weather system.

We've got a little ridge of high pressure building in for Sunday.

Still some cloud mulling underneath that high pressure,

so I can't promise wall-to-wall sunshine but it will be dry,

it will be bright, and it will be, for most of us, some strong August

sunshine. Allowing the temperatures to get between the high teens and

the low 20s.

But thereafter, the heat really starts to build,

as that high takes hold, we pick up this southerly wind,

that high keeping our weather fronts at bay, instead we start to

pick up the heat that's building already across Iberia and France.

And it's likely to get into southern counties later on Monday,

we could see 25, 26, perhaps a little higher, and temperatures

starting to rise further north as well,

less cloud around so that hot air -

just watch its movement, heading its way northwards,

that southerly wind ahead of the low pressures sat in the Atlantic,

battling that high pressure sat across the UK and further east.

So it does look as if, by the time we get to Tuesday

and Wednesday, the middle part of the week,

we will start seeing temperatures getting into the 30s.

So it's our second spell this summer of that sort of heat but

it looks like a flash in the pan because it may well

end midweek with a thundery breakdown,

often the case here in the UK as those weather fronts finally

start to move in and the heat allows some really intense downpours.

So that's how it's looking for the middle to end of the week,

then we may see a ridge of high pressure building in for

a time, but it's how long that will keep low pressure at bay out

in the Atlantic.

So really, after the early heat it looks set to turn much fresher

after the thundery breakdown, with some sunshine in this,

just how long that brief ridge of high pressure can hold off

those low pressures and keep the showers to a minimum.

I'll update you tomorrow.

The heat in the Den is rising.

You're coming across as, frankly, ridiculous.

I'm flabbergasted by that. Will they get burnt...