11/10/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. Before we delve into a fairly chilly week of weather,

let me show you a few Weather Watchers' shots from Monday,

because they reveal an unusual phenomenon.

These are fallstreak, or punch hole, clouds,

formed in layers altocumulus cloud.

They're usually made up of water droplets, but with aircraft

passing through them, it disturbed the air around a bit too much

and with a few extra particles in the atmosphere,

those water droplets froze, and as they froze, they got

heavier and fell from the sky,

but certainly provided a welcome distraction from

what was a rather cool start to the week.

High-pressure dominant across Scandinavia,

stopping Atlantic weather fronts going in,

but feeling cool, 13, 14 Celsius.

Just look upstream,

temperatures were much, much lower.

We won't see temperatures like that through this week,

because the easterly winds are pushing across

warming waters, 11 to 17 degrees,

the North Sea temperatures.

But as that cool air pushes across one warm waters,

it's like a pan of water on the stove.

We see clouds bubble up, shower clouds at that,

and that's why we're seeing showers across eastern areas

pushed westwards on the breeze.

What you will notice on Tuesday,

not as much sunshine, a lot more cloud around.

It is to the south and the west

where we continue with the sunniest skies

after a frosty start.

With the wind starting to strengthen,

it will probably feel that bit cooler.

That high deflects low-pressure systems

away from us,

one pushing down towards Iberia,

which will have a greater influence

later in the week.

High pressure dominates on Wednesday,

still feeding shower clouds into eastern areas,

as that increasingly stronger wind

pushes across the warm North Sea.

The showers will get further westwards,

but still some sunny spells.

Many will spend the bulk, if not all, the day dry.

Best place for that will be in the west.

With the strengthening wind, it'll feel much like

single-figure temperatures, rather than double-figure ones.

So, high pressure towards the north,

low pressure coming towards the south,

starting to have more of an influence by Thursday.

As they get closer,

the winds get stronger and stronger,

and it feels that bit colder still.

Weather-wise, still showers in the east

pushing westwards on the strength of that wind.

A bit of sunshine in between the showers,

best of which in the west.

Sunshine becomes more of a premium

as we head into Friday,

as our low-pressure system works its way northwards.

The low starts to have more influence

to the end of the week than the high.

The strongest winds

across the northern half of the country.

Rain, initially across the south,

spreading across central and eastern England

towards northern England and south-west Scotland.

As we go into the weekend,

it's that low-pressure system

circulating towards the south-west

which has the biggest influence.

The winds will be light.

It will be less chilly in the sunnier moments,

but there will be showers and longer spells of rain.

Showers across eastern Scotland,

north-eastern England push their way westwards,

a bit of sunshine,

but winds could touch gale force.

The reason we're still not seeing any mobile change to conditions

is that high pressure deflecting the jet stream to the north,

low pressure stranded towards the south as we go into next week,

so rain towards the south, brighter further north,

but still with those strong and cold east winds.

For a change, we have to look to the western side of the Atlantic.

This area of cloud we thought could bring a change.

It's the remnants of Hurricane Matthew.

That'll head towards Greenland.

Instead, we'll be watching this one, tropical storm Nicole,

set to become a hurricane and push towards Bermuda.

Maybe THAT will influence our weather next week.

I'll keep you updated.