04/09/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. We're going to start with a look at the weather in

the United States, because we saw what was Hurricane Hermine

make its way across northern Florida.

It's covered a large area, and it's expected to move out

into the Atlantic through the second part of the weekend.

It's a tropical storm now, but it may well reinvigorate itself

over the warm waters of the North Atlantic, and it may

even curve back towards the north-east of the United States.

So that certainly is one to watch over the next few days.

Meanwhile, back on our shores,

it was a pretty miserable start to the weekend,

with some heavy rain for many,

but thankfully that weather system is moving ever southwards

and eastwards, and the second part of the weekend looks a lot better.

We've got this ridge of high pressure which will be dominant

for our weather, so some dry weather for many

but not a completely dry second part to the weekend.

We've still got that low in the North Sea on Sunday,

and there's a bit of a breeze around that and outbreaks of

rain becoming light and patchy before some showers

get going across northern and eastern areas into the afternoon.

Even here there'll be spells of sunshine between those showers.

The further south and west you go,

for the most part it's a largely dry afternoon,

18 or so degrees in Belfast, 19 in Cardiff,

21 or 22 degrees in the south-eastern corner.

Through the evening, those showers in the north and the east fade away,

and then we look out west for the next weather system to head

our way, and that's going to bring some rain and

a bit of a breeze, as well. It's down to this weather system.

And as you can see, a fair number of isobars on the chart, so, yes,

another spell of wind and rain from the Atlantic to start the new week.

That rain is trying to push its way eastwards,

but I suspect much of eastern England will stay essentially

dry for much of the day.

Elsewhere, the rain becomes very light and patchy,

but it could well be quite a grey day, quite a lot of cloud sitting

down on the hills, particularly across these western areas,

but also increasingly humid through the day on Monday,

high teens or the low 20s quite widely.

And that's really the headline for the coming week, that temperatures

are on the rise, and we are going to see temperatures getting

widely into the low to middle, possibly even the upper 20s.

It may well be a slow start on Tuesday,

with some patches of mist, fog and low cloud,

but a lot of that will disappear, and then into the afternoon most

places are fine and dry and quite warm,

even 20 degrees into the north of Scotland.

A little rain to be had in Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland.

That's from this weather front, working its way north

through the middle of the week.

We've got a low to the west of us, a high to the east,

and the resultant wind is a southerly breeze,

and that's bringing in that very warm air from the near Continent.

Again on Wednesday, it might be a slow start for some,

with some mist and low cloud, but come the afternoon,

it's patchy cloud, sunny spells, and the warmth will be really

quite widespread, 25 degrees in the London area,

and feeling quite humid, as well.

Now, as we get on into Thursday,

this weather front will bring a little bit of rain with it as

it crosses the UK but it will also begin to drop that humidity,

at least temporarily.

But later on in the week, we are looking at

a low to the north and west of us, a high to the east of us.

As they drift their way northwards,

in closer proximity to that low in the north-west of the UK,

we'll see more of a breeze, maybe some rain at times,

but the resultant wind is still a southerly breeze,

and that's going to take us on into the weekend and beyond, as well.

So we are expecting to see some pretty high temperatures,

particularly in the south and the east,

but I suspect it'll be quite warm for most of us.

So as we end next week and look into the weekend as well,

we keep the southerly breeze. It's going to stay warm.

The warmth will be quite widespread.

Away from that low in the north-west of the United Kingdom,

elsewhere most of us are looking at

a lot of fine and dry weather. Bye for now.

It's carnival time here for Great Britain!

He's there!

He really is one of the greatest of all time.

What a summer.