05/09/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Now that climatological autumn is well underway, we'll take a look

back at the three months of summer. Through June, July and August.

Well, actually, it will go down as quite a wet summer but

that's mainly because June itself was a very wet month.

Actually, through July and August,

through the Midlands and much of southern England,

particularly the south-east, it was much drier than average and

overall temperatures were a notch or two above the seasonal norm.

So, quite a warm three-month spell.

And we did see some heat,

the heat peaked on August 23 in Faversham

in Kent, with 34 Celsius.

And we're going to see the temperatures rising again

through this coming week, turning warmer pretty much across the board.

We start the new week with this weather front coming in from

the west.

As you can see, there's a fair number of isobars on it,

so that means it will be quite breezy and there will

be some rain with that as well.

Now, the rain will be trying to work its way eastwards all the while,

but it never really gets to the eastern side of Scotland,

the eastern side of England, so it stays dry here,

clouds over to some degree in the afternoon.

Further west, after a wet start to the day

the rain becomes very light and patchy in the afternoon.

We keep a lot of low cloud though,

around the coast and over some hills, generally quite

a warm and humid afternoon,

temperatures in the high teens or the low 20s.

Then on into Tuesday,

and there will be a slow start to the day particularly across England

and Wales, with fairly extensive low cloud,

some mist and some fog, a little bit of rain on this weather

front for Northern Ireland, northern England and southern Scotland.

And as we get on into Tuesday afternoon,

I think we'll begin to break up some of that cloud and it's going to

be warm, quite widely, 25, 26 in the south-east but even into the low

20s in northern Scotland.

And then as we get on to the middle of the week,

this big high in the centre of Europe, winds go

clockwise around that, so we are developing this southerly breeze,

and that's what going to be with us through the middle of the week.

It's going to import something a little bit drier,

so that I think that drier air will help to evaporate that cloud

away, so through Wednesday morning we may well start again quite

grey but as that drier air drifts up from the south,

it will begin to break that cloud up into the afternoon,

so some good spells of sunshine developing. Dry virtually

everywhere, just the odd spot of rain in the far north and west,

where temperatures will be around about 15 or 16, but for many of us

on Wednesday it's a very warm one, into the low to middle

20s quite widely, could get 26 or so in the south-eastern corner.

By Thursday, we start to see this weak weather front just

drifting its way in from the south, and west,

it will bring some outbreaks of rain with it, but it's also going

to drop those temperatures by a few degrees in the south and west.

Ahead of that, with some good spells of sunshine, it's going to be

a very warm day, particularly so in the south-eastern corner here,

we could get 27 or 28 degrees but we're into the low 20s

quite widely. Notice those temperatures just dropping back

a little bit behind that weak weather front.

Which continues to work its way ever eastwards through Thursday night

and on into Friday, with a bit of a breeze coming in behind that.

So by Friday, temperatures might be down by couple of degrees in

comparison with Thursday, but still on the warm side.

In the high teens or the low 20s in the south-east,

and many central and eastern areas looking fine and dry but

we will see some wetter, windier weather drifting into the

western side of the UK through Friday afternoon.

Then, looking further ahead into the coming weekend, the big picture

sees high pressure still across central Europe.

Low pressure to the north-west of the UK - a slightly

fresher breeze blowing around that low, but still, for many,

we've got this south-westerly breeze,

still bringing in some fairly warm air.

So looking further ahead into the start of the coming week,

it looks we'll develop this north-west, south-east split,

still a bit of a breeze in the north and north-west, closer to that

low, some sunshine further south and still those temperatures for

most places will be a few degrees above normal.

Bye for now.

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