0:00:02 > 0:00:05Hello there. Well, fans of wet weather should look away now.
0:00:05 > 0:00:06Hopefully I won't lose too many viewers.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09The rest of you, if you'd been watching the broadcast
0:00:09 > 0:00:10over the last few days, you'll know
0:00:10 > 0:00:12I've been promising plenty of dry weather
0:00:12 > 0:00:14in the week ahead. Not to start with,
0:00:14 > 0:00:15for some of us, in fact,
0:00:15 > 0:00:16some dampness turning up across parts
0:00:16 > 0:00:18of Northern Ireland and western Scotland
0:00:18 > 0:00:20during the course of Friday,
0:00:20 > 0:00:21but for the rest of the UK,
0:00:21 > 0:00:22it's a drier prospect.
0:00:22 > 0:00:23Here's that patchy rain
0:00:23 > 0:00:25pushing into Northern Ireland
0:00:25 > 0:00:27and western Scotland since the afternoon,
0:00:27 > 0:00:28but eastern Scotland doing OK
0:00:28 > 0:00:30and for England and Wales,
0:00:30 > 0:00:32broken cloud and after that chilly start
0:00:32 > 0:00:33with light winds
0:00:33 > 0:00:35and hopefully some sunshine,
0:00:35 > 0:00:37temperatures will pick up quite nicely,
0:00:37 > 0:00:38we will be knocking on the door
0:00:38 > 0:00:40of double figures in most places.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41So a fine end to the week here
0:00:41 > 0:00:43and that fine theme continues
0:00:43 > 0:00:46into the weekend for the majority.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Some sunshine, it will feel quite springlike at times,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52but it will be a damp start across some northern areas,
0:00:52 > 0:00:53courtesy of a set of weather fronts
0:00:53 > 0:00:54bringing that patchy rain
0:00:54 > 0:00:56which will spread to other parts
0:00:56 > 0:00:57of Scotland and Northern Ireland
0:00:57 > 0:00:59and for a time across the Irish Sea
0:00:59 > 0:01:01into the likes of Cumbria
0:01:01 > 0:01:02early on Saturday, no great amounts
0:01:02 > 0:01:04but a disappointing start to the weekend,
0:01:04 > 0:01:05whereas further south
0:01:05 > 0:01:07for the bulk of England and Wales,
0:01:07 > 0:01:09it will be dry again after a chilly start,
0:01:09 > 0:01:10hopefully some sunshine.
0:01:10 > 0:01:11Light winds in the south,
0:01:11 > 0:01:12but quite breezy
0:01:12 > 0:01:14for a time further north.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15Temperatures dependent on
0:01:15 > 0:01:17how much sunshine you see,
0:01:17 > 0:01:18but again knocking
0:01:18 > 0:01:19on the door of double figures
0:01:19 > 0:01:21in the best of any brightness.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22Now as we go through
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Saturday night and into Sunday,
0:01:24 > 0:01:26so these weather fronts start to retreat
0:01:26 > 0:01:27back northwards again
0:01:27 > 0:01:30and take most of the rain with them,
0:01:30 > 0:01:32so it's a largely dry story on Sunday.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Getting the amounts of cloud right
0:01:34 > 0:01:35will not be easy over
0:01:35 > 0:01:37the next few days, so bear with us.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40There are detailed variations in the amount of sunshine
0:01:40 > 0:01:42but hopefully where you are, you'll see some.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Probably the best of the temperatures, actually,
0:01:44 > 0:01:45later on this week getting across
0:01:45 > 0:01:47northern and western areas,
0:01:47 > 0:01:48possibly up to the low teens.
0:01:48 > 0:01:49Cooler further south
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and the reason for that is we're going to
0:01:51 > 0:01:54start to draw in easterly winds off the near continent.
0:01:54 > 0:01:55If you're watching yesterday,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58I mentioned that the continent isn't desperately cold,
0:01:58 > 0:01:59but it will be quite cool winds
0:01:59 > 0:02:00and it will knock the temperatures
0:02:00 > 0:02:02on the head, particularly
0:02:02 > 0:02:03where you've got exposure to that wind,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06so, for East Anglia, for example, 6 or 7 degrees,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09compared to 11 or 12 across parts of Scotland
0:02:09 > 0:02:10and Northern Ireland, particularly
0:02:10 > 0:02:12if we see some brightness.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Spot the difference, really, on Tuesday.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16We've still got that mostly dry story,
0:02:16 > 0:02:18we've still got those easterly winds
0:02:18 > 0:02:19across the more southern areas
0:02:19 > 0:02:20keeping it relatively cool
0:02:20 > 0:02:22particularly along that east coast
0:02:22 > 0:02:23but, again, in some sunshine
0:02:23 > 0:02:25it shouldn't feel too bad.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Now I'm going to run the sequence through the rest of next week
0:02:28 > 0:02:31and the thing you'll notice is that high pressure dominates
0:02:31 > 0:02:36right the way through next week, slap-bang over us at times.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Now, rain is normally generated by the jet stream,
0:02:39 > 0:02:40so where is the jet stream?
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Well, it's way to the north of us for a start.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46It's bringing some outbreaks of rain across parts
0:02:46 > 0:02:48of Scandinavia later on next week.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51We also have another branch of the jet stream to the south of the UK
0:02:51 > 0:02:55down across southern parts of Europe and into the Mediterranean.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56If you've got friends or family
0:02:56 > 0:02:58heading to the Med later on next week,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00they'll have to take something waterproof
0:03:00 > 0:03:02because this branch of the jet stream
0:03:02 > 0:03:04will bring some very disturbed wet and windy weather
0:03:04 > 0:03:05and also in the mid-Atlantic,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07this little kink in the jet stream
0:03:07 > 0:03:09will generate some wet weather here,
0:03:09 > 0:03:13but for us closer to home we're well away from the jet stream
0:03:13 > 0:03:15and we will remain high and dry, we think,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18for several days to come, for the next week or so,
0:03:18 > 0:03:20and perhaps even longer than that.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22High pressure in control, plenty of dry weather later next week,
0:03:22 > 0:03:24some sunshine, but still
0:03:24 > 0:03:25that chilly breeze
0:03:25 > 0:03:26affecting the south.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Sarah will update you
0:03:27 > 0:03:29again tomorrow.