23/11/2015 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. After a wintry weekend,

temperatures steadily on the rise through the week ahead.

Now, they're not going to be as high

as they were for much of last week, peaking in the mid-teens,

but they will be higher than they were through this weekend,

when many of us were struggling at just 4 or 5 Celsius.

The temperatures this week back up to double figures for many

and actually back where they haven't been for most of November,

around about the average. So yes, after a frosty, foggy start,

temperatures will be on the rise through this week.

Turning milder, there'll be some strong winds around

and there'll be bouts of rain too,

the first of which will track

through Scotland and Northern Ireland

during Monday, steadily sinking southwards.

England and Wales, dry, bright

first day of the working week, with some sunshine,

but some dense fog patches around early on

and, for some, particularly across East Anglia and the south-east,

that fog could linger all day.

If it does, temperatures are going to struggle

to get above 3 or 4 Celsius, but generally,

7 or 8 degrees at the very best,

but the Outer Hebrides could be the warm spot on Monday.

Double figures possible here.

The milder but wetter weather

sinks its way steadily southwards

during the course of Monday night

and into Tuesday morning.

It is, of course, a weather front,

behind which - follow the isobars -

they're no longer pointing to the Arctic,

like they have been through much of this weekend,

they're pointing to the North Atlantic.

It's not exactly warm,

but it's a lot milder than it has been.

The weather front is still bringing rain

across East Anglia and the south-east

on Tuesday morning,

but should scoot away quite sharply,

then we're left with sunny spells, chiefly in the east -

north-east England, eastern Scotland

having a decent day, along with south-west England -

and plenty of showers coming in from the Atlantic on that wind.

Some of those showers could be quite heavy.

Now, the weather front's well and truly

out of the way by Tuesday afternoon.

A subtle shift in the isobars.

They're pointing a little bit further north,

but it's not going to be desperately cold on Wednesday.

The main difference will be that shift

to bring more showers down the eastern side

of England on Wednesday.

Still some in the west, down the spine of the UK.

Many places looking dry on Wednesday.

A big area of high pressure is dominating.

It's well away from the UK, but it's keeping

the weather front well to the north.

This warm front will introduce

maybe some cloud and patchy rain to Scotland for a time,

but it will also, as a warm front,

introduce warmer air and temperatures,

by Thursday, more widely over double figures.

They could reach 12 or 13 in Northern Ireland,

because milder air is following in for Thursday behind that warm front.

Behind it, you'll notice, however, some cold air,

which is spreading quickly towards us by Friday.

That's behind another cold front.

Now, that will bring cloud and rain

into the west quite quickly on Friday,

swinging across the UK,

plenty of isobars on the chart,

so it will be quite blustery.

And that cold air is set to arrive as we go in towards next weekend,

but it doesn't last as, through the weekend,

we'll see some warmer air returning

before the threat of colder air pushes back in later on.

So, for next weekend and into the early part of next week,

we'll start to see the weather, well, flip-flopping a little bit more,

thanks to the jet stream, that fast-moving ribbon of air,

well to the north of the UK for most of this week, but come next weekend,

it's back driving its way south across the UK

and it's that fast-moving ribbon of air high up, of course,

that drives our weather systems.

So, with them moving back towards the UK, the weather more changeable.

There'll be spells of wet and windy weather

into the following week, with temperatures...

Well, cool days, milder days,

but overall around average.

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