31/01/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. Not long after Storm Gertrude has moved away,

we're already eyeing up our next named storm for Monday

and Tuesday with wind and rain - that's Henry.

We'll look at that in a moment.

First, an image from Saturday's weather.

Widespread snow in Highland Scotland

captured by one of our weather-watchers.

Even blizzards with the strong winds

but a change coming for part two of the weekend.

For Sunday, we're going to see milder air

beginning to push back in from the south-west

but that comes with outbreaks of rain.

So, actually, many of us have seen sunshine

at some stage during Saturday

but for Sunday, here we go.

It's a cloudier, wetter story,

so sunshine hard to come by and, yes, milder air

is spreading northwards but it's going to take

a long time to go into Scotland,

not really until Sunday night.

Late recovery in temperatures

down the eastern side of England

and on the leading flank of that wet weather

pushing northwards, especially to the hills

of Scotland and Northern England,

there will be some snow for a time.

There's a big range of temperatures for Sunday

but Sunday night, the milder air continues

its journey northwards, completes its journey

northwards across the UK,

bringing some further heavy rain across parts

of Scotland so we start Monday, all of us,

in the mild air but the winds are strengthening

and that's as Storm Henry moves in.

So we'll take a look at it on the big picture.

Another deepening area of low pressure.

That's going to produce gales, severe gales,

widely across the UK

but the strongest, most disruptive winds

the closer you are to the base of this low pressure,

that's later on Monday into Monday night

across the north of Scotland in particular.

And this is where the Met Office

has an Amber "be prepared" warning in force

because winds will strengthen here during Monday

into Monday night

and that's where we could see some gusts of up to 90mph.

On Monday, more rain spreads its way southwards.

Brighter, showery conditions following on behind

but turning colder once again with some snow showers developing

over the hills and mountains of Scotland.

But the wind's the most disruptive element of Storm Henry.

Late Monday, Monday night into early Tuesday

so do keep in touch with the situation near you.

There will be more disruption.

Still very windy,

especially across Scotland on Tuesday,

as Storm Henry moves off towards Scandinavia

so we're in the colder air on Tuesday.

Plenty of showers pushing into the west,

again, wintry in nature.

The effect of that low pressure

moving away is to draw back in,

just like Gertrude did,

cold air southwards across the UK.

And actually, for a time after Henry's gone,

we're in that colder, quieter weather

so that includes much of Tuesday,

especially into Wednesday as well.

This is the big picture for Wednesday.

Not yet seeing these weather systems

coming in from the Atlantic

so there'll be overnight frost,

there'll be icy patches possible.

There'll be further showers

coming into the north-west of the UK,

wintry at least on hills

but potentially to lower levels in places too.

But then by the end of Wednesday going into Thursday,

that next weather system from the Atlantic

is beginning to show its hand.

So, for much of the week coming,

we are in the colder air

because the jet stream has dipped

a little bit further south

but then as that next weather system

comes in later in the week,

the jet stream starts to push

its way further north again.

But, of course, the jet stream

throughout is close to the UK,

it is the source of wet and windy weather systems

coming in from the Atlantic

so we are expecting another one

later in the week

with more wind and rain

not expected as yet

to be as fierce as Henry.

And for the second week of February,

something colder for longer is possible

and we'll keep an eye on that.

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