01/01/2018 BBC Weather

I'll now hand you over to Susan

Powell for the national forecast.

Good evening. The weather is set to

serve up some stormy times in the

week ahead. Windy through much of

the week, sometimes even up to gale

force or a severe gale force before

the week is out. And some rather

heavy rain. Having said that it is

fairly quiet outside this evening.

The showers will be easing over the

coming hours and we could see a

frost developing with clear skies by

the end of the night, so bear that

in mind if you're heading off to

work early tomorrow. But fine and

chilly weather is short lived,

because already coming in from the

west by the rush-hour will be the

next weather system, lifting the

temperatures across Northern Ireland

and bringing in some wet and windy

conditions. Eastern Scotland should

have a frosty, clear start and down

into the Midlands, East Anglia and

the south-east of England, a dry

start to Tuesday. But already in the

west, there is the weather front

picking up the winds. On the plus

side, this weather front will move

across fairly quickly, so if you

start with the rain, the chances are

that by lunchtime it will have gone

by. As the front crosses northern

England and Scotland it could wring

some wintry weather to the hills and

mountains of. It looks like it will

go off into the North Sea by the

afternoon, leaving a bit of a

breather in the weather for most.

But that will be short lived. This

bright area behind me is an

indicator of what is to come next,

and that's a deep area of low

pressure set to come in from the

Atlantic, a vicious little system,

widespread gales overnight Tuesday

into Wednesday, severe gales for a

time. It will be moving off into the

North Sea but behind it we're left

with quite strong winds and again at

the risk of gales and some fairly

nasty showers. Some heavy downpours

of rain, hail and thunder. The winds

very squally at times. And that sets

us up for the remainder of the week,

with another area of low pressure

queueing up to come in from the

Atlantic. A little bit of a breather

again in the early part of Thursday,

a chilly start for some. But here is

the next load of wet and windy

weather coming in to the British

Isles for Friday. Widespread gales

and as promised some heavy spells of

rain. And then to finish