13/07/2014 Weather for the Week Ahead

It looks like our weather will be

warming up again next week and turning

briefly hotter for some of us before thunderstorms arrive

and then next weekend it's looking unsettled once again.

All on that coming up in the next three and a half minutes

but I'll start with the next five minutes of weather in detail

and this is how Sunday is shaping up.

Brighter, fresher weather heading East as the day goes on after

a cloudy and damp start.

But there are still showers around.

Not so much for Southwest England and Wales,

the afternoon here is looking mainly dry.

Broken clouds, sunny spells, feeling a bit fresher than it has done.

Much of Northwest England will be dry too.

Though if you venture into the Pennines you could encounter

a heavy shower.

For Northern Ireland you may catch a light shower here and there

but most dry.

Some of us in Western and Northern Scotland will start damp

and drizzly but the afternoon is fine.

As it will be across the bulk of Scotland.

and Southeast you may still catch a shower into the afternoon.

The bulk of those showers will be scattered across Central

So although it will start to brighten up in the afternoon,

you may catch a heavy and possibly thundery downpour.

By no means everybody will.

and by the end of the day it will feel less humid too.

The showers fade away into the evening.

Then during Sunday night plenty of clear weather around

for star gazing or looking at the super moon.

And it will be cooler too

so temperatures for some will dip down into single figures.

Feeling much fresher out and about on Monday morning.

On Monday we start with a little ridge of high pressure.

It's not going to last long as this area of low pressure

comes in from the Atlantic and brings its weather fronts with cloud

and some outbreaks of rain.

It's in the West the weather will go downhill first.

Eventually late in the day,

start to see some of teat rain reaching the Eastern side.

Some warmth particularly across Central

and Eastern areas with temperatures well into the 20s.

Most though around 18-21.

This frontal system will complete its journey South-eastwards

across the UK as we go through Monday night and into Tuesday.

Early on Tuesday there will be some cloud

and outbreaks of rain in the East.

But that should push away and brighter skies will follow

so for much of the UK on Tuesday it's sunny spells.

The odd shower around and when the sun's out it will feel

pleasantly warm.

But some hotter weather coming in from midweek. Here's why.

High pressure building in.

Low pressure still bringing some rain at times to Northern Ireland

and Western Scotland on Wednesday and Thursday for that matter.

But elsewhere with the flow of air turning to one from Iberia, we're

going to lift those temperatures into the mid to upper 20s.

Particularly across Southern and Eastern parts of England.

On Thursday that weather system is still producing some rain

threatening Northern Ireland and Western Scotland.

Elsewhere under the influence of high pressure temperatures will get

even higher.

It's possible somewhere on Thursday could see 30C.

A late day thunderstorm is possible

but more in the way of thundery rain comes in for Friday.

And as we look further ahead for the trend

from the 18th to the 22nd of July it looks like we'll look to the

Atlantic again for our weather as it turns more unsettled.

Low pressure affecting the Northwest of the UK

but I think everywhere will see showers or spells of rain at times.

But also some drier,

brighter weather when it will still feel pleasantly warm.

Next week ends with thunderstorms.

Into next weekend the heat subsiding as it turns more unsettled

once again.

That's the latest look at the weather 10 days into the future.

As ever, we'll keep you updated with the here and now online. Bye-bye.