31/08/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Well, it's time for our extended weather update

and if you were watching yesterday,

we talked a lot about the tropical storms in the Atlantic

that may be influencing our weather in some sort of way

but in the short-term,

this is what it looks like for the rest of the week.

It should be quite sunny,

a fair amount of sunshine for most of us, pleasantly warm

but there will be some spells of rain heading our way as well.

This is what we had in the last sort of day or so -

high pressure close to the south-east of the country

so here, spectacular clear, blue skies,

really lovely weather there

but these weather fronts in the Atlantic

are making inroads so the first spell of rain brought

by this cold front here,

that's heading in the direction

of Northern Ireland and Scotland.

And, eventually,

this normal progression of weather patterns

will be disrupted in some way or another

by these tropical storms and this hurricane,

for example, Hurricane Gaston.

That's way out there,

still not bothering anybody for the time being,

probably won't do actually,

even in the mid-to-long-term.

But this is what it looks like on Wednesday -

we've got a weather front crossing the UK,

there will be some spells of rain, plenty of sunshine

across western areas,

quite fresh here, 17, 18 degrees.

You'll notice that not quite

so warm across the south-east,

in fact, on Tuesday, temperatures here

were getting up into the high 20s,

more like 22 or 23 degrees

with this weather front crossing through.

Now, this is a ridge,

it's almost like a bump, like a hill,

and this is high pressure here and when we get that,

and it's usually between two weather systems,

we get a window of much better weather so, actually,

not looking bad at all for most of us on Thursday

but a little bit of rain, again,

coming off the Atlantic

with those weather fronts lining up there

for Northern Ireland

and also western parts of Scotland.

Now, Thursday evening into Friday,

these weather fronts will be sliding

across the northern half of the UK

so Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Lake District,

eventually Wales, perhaps into the south-west,

we'll have some rain

and then later on in the afternoon,

even the central and southern areas of the UK

could catch a little bit of rain.

So, I think, most of us, by the end of Friday,

will at least have a dose of rain -

not necessarily heavy rain

but there will be one or two sprinkles

at the very least. So, the weekend,

let's have a look at the broad picture across the Atlantic.

So, these swirls here,

individual tropical storms,

one actually moving across Florida,

lots of heavy rains here,

this one moving out

just off the eastern seaboard of the US

and another one here, probably Gaston,

a tropical storm by this stage, and basically,

what these storms do when they move northwards,

they transport all of that heat, that energy,

the tropical air northwards

but this isn't really great news

for us weather forecasters

because that, as I said,

disrupts the normal progression of weather fronts.

But this is Saturday

so those tropical weather systems

are nowhere near us, this is just our ordinary

wet and windy weather heading our way for Saturday.

So, not a pretty picture

for many of us and actually, come Sunday,

it could be fairly unsettled as well but I think,

during the weekend,

there should be at least a window of opportunity

of some sunshine

so it's not going to be

a wash-out all the way through.

And then early next week,

this is the satellite picture right now, but early next week,

again, as we were saying,

these tropical weather systems

moving northwards

so perhaps they will be transporting

some of that tropical air,

that humid, warmer air

in our direction but to the south-east,

we'll start to see

a high pressure developing here so actually,

the weather may end up being dry across the south

but at the moment, too early to say what's waiting in the wings -

it could be anything flying our way.

That's it from me. Thanks for watching.