17/07/2014 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there.

We'll take a look at the potential weather trends into next week

in just a moment but first of all,

let's concentrate on the near future which could be fairly dramatic.

The heat and humidity building over the next few days.

Generally, Thursday is a fine summer's day.

A bit more clout than Wednesday across parts of the south,

certainly to start off with.

One or two scattered showers in Western Scotland

but for most places it is going to be a fine day.

Certainly for the likes of central and southern Scotland, Northern

Ireland, a bit warmer as well with temperatures back over 20 degrees.

Parts of the east coast of Scotland may well stay in cool.

That could be a feature of the weather for the next few days.

Inland, across northern England, the mid 20s likely.

A warmer feel across Wales with sunny spells

developing for most places here. A sunny day or two in the south.

A risk of a little bit of low cloud and mist at times on the south coast

and close by to London, 27, 28,

possibly as high as 29 degrees Celsius.

It will be another warm and humid night Thursday night into Friday.

Increasing risk of seeing a few lightning bolts across parts

of south-west England and Wales, as we go through the night.

Really quite sultry here as well through the night.

Temperatures staying in the high teens in most places.

A little cooler further north

but generally it's going to be quite a humid start to Friday.

Friday will see the peak in the temperatures.

We do have this little weather feature bringing those thundery

showers, certainly across Northern Ireland and south-west Scotland.

But follow the isobars. They head all the way down across France

and that's where we're importing our air from.

So, in the sunshine, temperatures set to soar on Friday.

There will be a sprinkling of potentially quite heavy

showers across Northern Ireland and western Scotland.

Late in the day, across the east, there could be some

thunderstorms too but for most, it's all about the heat.

30 degrees, 31 or 32 is possible.

Cooler again on some of those North Sea coasts.

Then for the weekend, particularly Friday night and into Saturday

morning, we are looking at more thunderstorms developing.

This weather front will eventually bring a fresher feel for the weekend

but ahead of it, the heat and humidity are likely to trigger

potentially violent storms on Friday night and through Saturday.

A lot of uncertainty about the exact position of those downpours.

But they have the potential to cause some fairly serious issues,

large hailstones, strong and gusty winds, along with a lot of rain

falling in a short space of time.

That front clears through on Sunday, introducing fresher conditions

so it won't be as humid. It's far from dry and fine everywhere though.

There will still be a sprinkling of showers and certainly at first,

quite a lot of low cloud. A bit of sunshine on Sunday.

It shouldn't feel too unpleasant.

A little bump in the isobars for Sunday and into Monday,

promising a brief ridge of high pressure.

These weather fronts are trying to push in but as they bump up

against that ridge of high pressure, well, they will start to weaken.

A little bit of cloud and patchy rain trying to push in from the west.

But most places looking dry and bright again on Monday,

with temperature back into the low to mid 20s.

And so beyond Monday, into the middle and latter part of the week

ahead, it looks as if high pressure will be nearby.

But the exact position of that high could mix things up a little bit.

If it's down to the south west,

it may well introduce some cooler conditions across parts

of the east and low pressure is never far away from the far north west

so there will be outbreaks of rain here.

If the high is a little bit further east,

it may well draw up some warm air again from the near continent.

With high-pressure nearby, well,

the trend is that much of next week will be dry.

The potential for things to get warm again and for large parts

of the UK, expected to be set fair with some sunshine.