10/10/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Thanks for tuning in. Let's check the weather for the next week or so.

And in the short term,

there's not actually going to be an awful lot of change.

That is for the next 24 hours or so.

It will be a mix of weather, some lovely sunshine,

just like over the weekend, and also some shower clouds,

a beautiful picture here of a cumulonimbus cloud,

you can even see a hint of a rainbow

in that rain streak.

But I think the main message is easterly winds, east or

north-easterly winds will continue, a bit like over the last 24 hours.

This is the radar, showing the showers,

you can see them coming in.

They haven't been penetrating very deep inland but as we go

through the course of the week we'll start to see those showers

coming in a little but further.

There will be more of them, we will see increasing winds and it

will start to feel a little bit cooler.

But in the small hours of Monday morning,

most of the showers are still confined to these eastern areas.

Inlands dry, and cool, if not cold.

In fact, in rural spots - really nippy.

Frost hollows, the sort of typical areas where

we get the temperatures dipping, that sort of thing,

around about zero degrees if not a few degrees below freezing,

particularly across Scotland. Now, you'll notice even

the potential for one or two thunderstorms. Now, this is

moisture coming in off the North Sea, on an east/north-easterly wind.

Some of these showers will be quite heavy, a real soaking.

But most of us at any one time, should actually have a decent

amount of sunshine. Temperatures will typically be around about

13 to 15 degrees Celsius. Now, this high,

you can just about see it there, it's across Scandinavia,

it is dominating our weather. This low is trying to come in.

We'll talk about that in a second -

off Newfoundland, that's the remnants of Matthew,

used to be Hurricane Matthew, not any more.

So, easterly winds, I think, will be the main theme

for most of this week. Best of the weather on Tuesday

still across many western areas of the UK.

Still those showers coming in, in fact, probably by the time

we get to Tuesday, a little bit more than just showers,

big clumps of cloud coming in off the North Sea,

so quite cloudy, gloomy and chilly, with some rain on and off

across these eastern areas and these showers are caught

around the bottom periphery of this high pressure.

Now, look at these isobars, very straight.

When we get straight isobars - I was talking about this yesterday,

we get strong winds as well, so the more curved the isobars are,

the lighter the winds can be.

So straight winds coming out of the east or the north-east

bringing further showers and cloudy conditions to some of these

eastern areas and actually increasing winds through Thursday

and these bits and pieces of rain will move a little bit

further into western parts of the UK, as well, and feeling colder

and colder, 10 or 11 degrees. I think on that North Sea coast

it won't feel very pleasant. Now, the remnants of these tropical

weather systems will be playing a part in how our weather behaves.

Sort of starts to impact on how the low pressures start to behave

closer to the UK.

Too much detail to go into in this short weather report.

I think, suffice to say, there should be a low pressure developing

to the south of the country, probably south and

south-western areas at risk of getting the heaviest of the rain.

Normally, it should be the other way round,

we should have a high pressure down here, low pressure to the north,

closer to Iceland, and these sort of milder Westerlies

but that's just not happening. By next weekend, we still have that

low to the south, high pressure to the north

and in between, if you imagine these are corkscrews,

we get those easterly winds. So, let's summarise all of that -

it is all about easterly winds this week. Increasing showers

and that cloud coming in off the North Sea.

And obviously, when you get these two things, it is going to feel

on the chilly side, so kind of autumn is here

but sort of the other way round.