27/12/2015 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. Overall the weather patterns remain pretty stuck, which means

we can expect further problems from the weather over the next few days.

All the problems during Boxing Day

are caused by this area of low pressure

and particularly this slow-moving weather front.

It is trickling its way southwards at the moment,

and the rain is really weakening on it as well,

it'll bring a damp start across southern parts

of England and Wales on Sunday.

It will then move back further north,

but it's a very much weaker feature

by the time it gets back into the flooded areas

across northern England and north Wales.

Nevertheless it will bring some light rain on Sunday.

Further north from that, generally dry

and chilly, temperatures in single figures.

Further south, well,

it's still very, very mild indeed.

And that weather front is out

of the way by the time

we get to Sunday night and into Monday.

Follow the isobars pointing down into Iberia,

so our air is again

coming right up from the south.

Quite a mild day on Monday,

that mild air coming up from Iberia,

across France as well.

And generally, it's looking like

a drier day on Monday,

and temperatures will be well above average.

The mild air pushing back across Scotland,

so a much warmer day here.

Generally dry and sunny

across central and eastern areas.

Further west though, we will start to see

a weather front approaching, the winds picking up too,

and we could see some rain

into west Wales, south-west England

and especially Northern Ireland

by the end of the day.

Again, temperatures well above average,

13, 14, 15 degrees,

and after a chillier feel

on Sunday across Scotland and northern England,

we're back in double figures here.

However, after a really mild Monday we are again

focusing on the rain for much of the rest of the week.

Well out in the Atlantic,

this mass of blue is a mass of rain,

it's an area of low pressure,

and just watch how it develops.

During Monday and into Tuesday,

the isobars really spewing out of it,

it's intensifying as it approaches the UK.

The low itself probably

going to the north of the UK,

but this will firstly move some weather fronts

across the UK on Tuesday

and then potentially bring a spell

of very windy weather and more rain

later on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Apart from a few showers though,

much of Tuesday dry and fine,

it's in the west where we

start to see that weather system

arriving, the winds really getting

stronger and stronger. The winds probably

the biggest issue later on Tuesday,

but then the rain arrives too,

pulses of rain for Northern Ireland, Scotland,

potentially parts of

northwest England and Wales also.

So that is one of the greatest causes

for concern around the middle of the week,

heavy rain during the course of Wednesday,

some bright colours there,

it could be very wet indeed and also very windy.

But again, the winds coming up from the south

still bringing mild air, 11 to 13 degrees Celsius.

As we go into New Year's Eve, that weather front

should start to move through, but it's

only replaced by more of them.

These ones at the moment don't look too intense,

but there are developing areas of low pressure

getting picked up by the jet stream,

that fast-moving ribbon of air

high up which is still very, very active.

So on New Year's Eve we'll see

spells of rain moving through,

one potentially clearing

from the east before another one

arrives in the west, and again,

the winds likely to be a feature.

Potentially turns a little colder

behind that cold front,

and temperatures turning into single figures,

but closer to average after the very mild weather of late.

And that mild theme continues into New Year's Day and beyond.

Often very blustery with a strong jet stream,

there will be further spells of rain.

Some computer models suggest it might turn a little colder

during the first week of 2016,

but that is just some computer models,

most suggest it will be mild and potential for more warnings.

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