06/02/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. We're forecasting a change in the wind direction this week.

It's eventually going to be coming out of the east -

that means colder weather for all of us.

It'll take time before it turns colder,

I think Thursday, Friday is when we might even have some light

flurries of snow here and there. Nothing too dramatic,

we're not going to be building snowmen or anything like that,

at least at this stage.

In the short term we've got a window of clearer weather across the UK,

so that means that Monday morning pretty chilly,

in fact frosty in many areas and some mist and fog.

We'll talk about that rain in a minute.

The main message for Monday morning is the dense fog,

and it could well be very dense in some areas across central

and south-eastern parts of England.

And then that fog is going to disperse, the winds will be

picking up and the rain will start to sweep in to these western areas.

I say sweep in, actually it's going to be moving pretty slowly

into western parts of the UK.

Eastern areas, if you live in London, Hull, say Edinburgh,

these areas will stay dry all through the course of the afternoon,

and then by the time we get to the evening

that rain starts to march through.

Even a little bit of snow mixing in there across the Pennines

and Grampians, but nothing too much, I don't think -

it's mostly across the hills.

And then into Tuesday

that weather front unfortunately stalls on the east coast of England,

so that means a grey day for you, outbreaks of rain,

pretty wet, I think, in the morning, and then sort of damp

in the afternoon, cos that rain will be sort of

fizzling away through the day -

there'll be less and less of it as we go through the afternoon.

The rest of the country much brighter but still,

even where it brightens up across the west and the south-west here,

there could be some showers around. So that's Tuesday.

Wednesday, another set of weather fronts approaches the UK,

but they sort of stay offshore,

so that means again a dry day for most of us on Wednesday.

Look what's happening with the winds,

and this is really a key here - they're coming in from

the east here, they're coming in from the south-west here,

down there I don't really know what's going on,

but we're kind of in a transition period from something

relatively mild to something a little bit colder.

And what is happening is this area of high pressure,

and it's called a blocking high in meteorology.

It basically does what it says on the tin - it stops,

it blocks the weather fronts from coming through.

In fact, this area of low pressure will probably move towards

the west so they all sort of go backwards,

and eventually the easterly winds win.

So I'm going to run this Thursday and into Friday

all in one scene, one outlook.

You can see the easterly winds really sort of pushing

the weather front, even pushing me away!

And it's going to feel cold.

Now, temperatures by day, even into the weekend, we're talking about

three degrees at best, and with that also comes a lot of clouds.

It's not going to be sunny and cold,

it looks like it's going to be pretty cloudy and cold,

and with that also comes the risk of some wintry flurries.

And not just across the hills but in some of the towns and cities

throughout the Midlands, for example,

but not an awful lot at this stage.

And then into next week we expect this blocking high

to remain where it is.

Once it settles here this high takes a lot to shift it,

so the easterly winds will continue.

So let's summarise early next week, then -

cold easterly winds, we know that,

frosty mornings for sure,

and a risk of some wintry flurries.

That's it from me. Thanks for watching.