30/09/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

A very warm welcome to you and our Weather For The Week Ahead.

Let's see what Mother Nature's going to bring us in the coming days.

It's certainly going to be a lot calmer across

Scotland after that stormy, stormy day on Thursday, particularly

around north-western coasts of Scotland, gusts around 70mph

brought in by this area of low pressure,

the cloud you can see here brought in by this powerful jet stream.

But things are calming down. Another interesting feature of our weather

has been the aurora borealis,

and a good chance of catching a glimpse of this space spectacular

over the coming nights even as far south as southern

Britain, but you're going to have to be out of town, out of the

light pollution, to catch a glimpse of that glow on the horizon.

Here's the weather for Friday. Not looking bad at all.

Still a bit of a breeze out there,

quite fresh across many northern parts of the country.

You can see 12, 15 degrees, and still a scattering of showers.

But I think the sunshine will prevail

at least most of the time on Friday.

And then, Friday night into Saturday,

there is yet another change in our weather.

The jet stream is going to bring us another area of low pressure.

This time we're not talking about strong winds,

but we are talking about a very mixed weekend.

So, the weekend looks something like this,

a cool and showery Saturday but a much, much better Sunday.

So, let's have a look at Saturday's weather forecast, then.

Right from the word go, lots of showers coming in,

a fair old breeze blowing around, too, but it's the showers

that really will be the feature of the day, some of them heavy,

thundery, and wherever the cloud and the showers linger - and this

could be slow-moving - it will be a cool day, ten, 12, 11,

13 degrees, those sorts of values.

In the sunshine, the temperatures will recover to around 17 in London.

I think the best of the weather will be out north-west here.

But very quickly as we head into Sunday,

so Saturday night into Sunday, that low moves out towards the

Continent and Denmark and we're in-between

weather systems, so clearing skies.

But that also means that first thing on Sunday morning,

it is going to be quite chilly, so widely, I think,

temperatures will be down to six or seven degrees,

perhaps cooler than that in some countryside spots.

So, here's a look at Sunday. Again, in-between weather systems.

There's that low pressure. Another weather front out in the Atlantic.

We're in this drier slot. This is a ridge of high pressure.

Temperatures recovering nicely after a cool morning, 18 in London.

Still fresh across Scotland.

That's about the average for the time of year, isn't it?

We're getting into October now, the end of September, October.

Here's Monday. Looks like weather fronts are trying to approach,

but they get stalled, and the reason for that is the shape of the

jet stream, which I'm going to talk about in just a second.

But I think it's pretty obvious, lots of fine weather across

England and Wales here, some outbreaks of rain getting into

Western Scotland and Northern Ireland.

And then, come Monday night and Tuesday, that weather front does

try to move a little bit further towards the east, but it can't.

It's sort of blocked. The weather pattern's stalled.

We keep the fine, dry weather across many eastern areas.

And temperatures not bad in this southerly flow, 20 in London,

16 or 17 you can see across northern areas of the UK.

Let's look at the shape of the jet stream,

because that's quite often what determines our weather.

When you get this kink and then you get this detour to the north,

that's where a lot of the weather tends to go.

All weather fronts kind of stall across this part of the country,

whereas to the east you have high pressure and fine weather.

So mainly dry and fine, I think, across eastern areas,

whereas in the north-west, closer to those weather fronts,

we will have at times some spells of rain and breezy weather.

You're up to date. Thanks for watching.