02/09/2014 Weather for the Week Ahead

Our weather may have entered a quiet spell

this month but it's not going to be without challenges over

coming days.

To begin with it's all down to who gets the cloud and who gets

the sunshine because that will have a big impact on the temperatures.

To begin Tuesday Central and Eastern parts of England,

certainly cloudy, misty, foggy in one

or two spots for the early commuters.

That should gradually shift and break.

Best of the brightness out to the West and North.

But even where you start with the cloud

we should see a little bit of sun come through now and again.

Parts of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia, Northeast

Midlands could be favoured with cloud

thick enough to produce light rain or drizzle.

A drier, brighter day compared with Monday across Southern

parts of England into South Wales.

Temperatures into low 20s for many.

Could get to 23 in parts of Wales.

And a fine day to the Northwest of England

though Eastern parts of the Pennines could see lingering low cloud.

For Scotland and Northern Ireland well broken clouds.

Some sunny breaks throughout the day particularly around the Aviemore

area, another favoured spot for hitting 22 or 23.

Tuesday night into Wednesday we see the low cloud become dominant again.

And across parts of Northeast England,

Southeast Scotland is where it could be thick enough for rain or drizzle.

A few passing showers to the Western Isles

and probably a milder night than what takes us into Tuesday.

Given the fact we have that mist and low cloud.

Could be a grey start to Wednesday.

Best favoured for the sunnier breaks

though is all down to the position of our high pressure.

It's out across Scandinavia.

We've got a clockwise wind flow

and that's blowing from the Southeast across England and Wales.

Shelter to the west of the hills

where we see the best of sunny breaks here.

With a generally Southerly flow across Scotland it's

the north of the Grampians where we'll see

the best of the sunshine, hence the best of the temperatures.

Could get close to the mid-20s in many spots.

But widely temperatures lifting by a degree or so day on day.

We start with mist, low cloud, one or two showers possible.

Southeast Scotland,

Northeast England probably best favoured for this stage.

Temperatures in the mid to high teens

so even with the cloud it should feel reasonably warm.

Not a lot changes Wednesday into Thursday.

The high pressure's still there but we start to see a few weather

fronts push close to the Northwest of Scotland.

So potential across the Hebrides.

Maybe towards Shetland of some more persistent rain

sliding in later in the day.

But away from that it's a similar story of some sunny

breaks in many parts of the country after a misty, grey start.

Best across the West in England and Wales and the North in Scotland.

Enter Friday and we see areas of low pressure try to

brew across to the West of us.

The high pressure remains in charge.

THe core of the high pressure shifts to the North of us by this stage.

So it's a general Easterly flow.

So those in the West again sheltered from those Easterly winds will

probably see the best of the sunshine.

A lot of low cloud to begin the morning across Eastern parts.

Saturday gets more complicated.

We have an area of low pressure trying to push its way in.

Small chance we could see low pressure

develop against Central parts of Europe.

There is a small chance of showers in the Southeast.

But generally at this stage we're talking about a predominantly

dry picture for much of the UK with temperatures at

if not a little bit above average.

Through Sunday into Wednesday of the following week,

high pressure remains dominant to the East of us

but this low pressure to the West could start to have more inroads.

A lot of uncertainty tied in amongst that.

We still go for a predominantly dry picture through this period.

With temperatures maybe a little above average in the sunshine

and lighter winds.

But with that low pressure getting close by, particularly in Western

areas there is potential for wetter and breezier weather to develop.

We'll keep you updated here throughout the coming days.

Bye for now.