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What's your impression of the winter so far? | 0:00:02 | 0:00:03 | |
Well, nothing too extreme - we've had some frost, | 0:00:03 | 0:00:06 | |
a bit of snow, but actually not much in the way of rainfall. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
Following on from a dry autumn, winter so far has been pretty dry. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
The map is coloured brown, | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
indicating below average rainfall through December and January, | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
and February hasn't seen much in the way of rainfall either. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
And it's something the Environment Agency and the Met Office | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
are keeping a close eye on, because winter rainfall is very important | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
when it comes to replenishing water supplies in time for the summer. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:30 | |
So it's just one to watch. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
It's been so dry because we've had blocking areas of high pressure | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
for much of the winter. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
Over the next few days, though, we're going to see more of | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
an Atlantic influence with low pressure systems | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
coming in from the west. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:43 | |
So there will be some rain through the next week or so, | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
but no huge amounts at this stage anticipated. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
One such weather system pushing into south-western parts of England | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
and Wales through the morning, some wet weather locally. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
It'll stagger its way northwards and eastwards. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
Fairly patchy in nature but the odd heavy burst around too. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
On either side of that there will be some dry weather. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
In actual fact, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:06 | |
it'll brighten up quite nicely through the afternoon across | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
some south-western parts of England, south-west Wales, | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
as this weather system pushes up through parts of southern England, | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
the Midlands, maybe the odd thundery bursts | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
and up into parts of northern England as well. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
Fair bit of cloud in association with that, of course, | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
but it will be mild - | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
temperatures up into double figures in a good few places. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
Showery rain continuing to move its way northwards out of | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
Northern Ireland, perhaps into south-west Scotland. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
Some of the best of the sunshine on offer, actually, | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
on Wednesday will be across the far north. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
Milder than it has been. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
Now, this little weather system clears out of the way but as | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
a low pressure system trundles across the far north, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
this is where most of the action will be weather-wise on Thursday. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
Some quite blustery winds circulating around that low | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
and there will be some showers for Scotland, Northern Ireland, | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
parts of northern England too. But a lot of dry weather further south. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
Quite a quiet day across the south of the UK with light winds, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
and after a foggy start in one or two places | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
it should be reasonably bright. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
Now, as we head into the night for Friday | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
a little ridge of high pressure topples across. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
Reaches of high pressure bring dry weather. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
The catch is, could well be a foggy start to the day on Friday | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
and that fog could linger into the day in some places before | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
eventually it brightens up with some sunshine. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
Some of the best of the sunshine actually on Friday will be | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
across the eastern half of the UK. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
Out west, the next weather system getting lined up, | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
but I think it will take all day for it to arrive across the far west, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
with increasing wind and some rain turning up. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
Again, in the sunshine further east, feeling pretty good. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
Now, that weather system staggers across the country, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
but a pretty weak feature, as you can see - just patchy rain around. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
Again, no great amounts, probably staying dry across the east | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
and brightening up later on out west. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
Then on Sunday the next weather system arrives off the Atlantic, | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
so some wet weather turning up across Northern Ireland and | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
Scotland through the day on a freshening breeze, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
whereas further south and east it should be drier and brighter. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
And again, double-figure temperatures. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
Now, into next week the jet stream livens up a bit, | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
so we are going to see some more active frontal systems coming | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
in off the Atlantic, carried along by that strengthening jet stream. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
Toppling down across the country, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
these weather systems will bring some rain, | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
particularly to the more northern and western parts of the UK, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
whereas further south and east we won't see much in the way of rain. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:17 | |
So that's the story through next week. Always driest across the east. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
There will be some wet weather further west. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
Milder than recently - just briefly we'll see some chillier spells | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
but nothing too extreme. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
We'll update you again tomorrow. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 |