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Yesterday, we were talking about the provisional March statistics | 0:00:03 | 0:00:06 | |
and how, overall, the month was pretty average. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
But there were some significant regional variations, | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
and this is another example. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:12 | |
This is the rainfall through the month of March 2016, | 0:00:12 | 0:00:16 | |
showing that, actually, across Scotland and Northern Ireland, | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
it was a pretty dry month. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
The brown colours where it's drier than average, | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
the blue where it's been wetter than average. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
Wales was about average, but across England, particularly in the east, | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
it was significantly wetter than average. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
Quite interesting, because eastern England was one of the places | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
where the winter as a whole was quite dry. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
And it's also quite interesting because the first day of April | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
is providing pretty much the polar opposite, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
with the wettest conditions across Scotland and Northern Ireland | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
and it should, by and large, be a dry day across England and Wales, | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
although some rain will trickle into the north-west later on. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
Temperature-wise, where it's wet and windy, just 8 or 9 Celsius. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
Where the sun shines longest, across the south-east, 13 or 14. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
The Moray Firth may stay dry, | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
and with some brightness here, we could get to 12 or 13 degrees. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
The rain will continue to trickle across parts of England and Wales | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
for a time on Friday night. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
But how far south it gets is open to doubt a little bit. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
This weather front is going to grind to a halt | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
before starting to pivot back further north on Saturday | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
as low pressure approaches from the south-west. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
When we get these wiggling, waving weather fronts, | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
there's always some uncertainty about where they lie. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
But what we are confident about | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
is that as low pressure dominates to the west of the UK, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
it will draw up the winds from the south-east, | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
so it will be turning milder. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
For some, it will still be soggy on Saturday | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
where that weather front's sitting, | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
probably across northern England, North Wales to start with, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
into southern Scotland and Northern Ireland by the end of the day. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
Further north, generally dry and bright, but still cool. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
Further south, it's starting to warm up, | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
the temperatures more widely in the teens. As it warms up, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
there is the risk of some systems coming up from the south, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
bringing some heavy, potentially thundery rain. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
A lot of uncertainty about the position and intensity | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
of any storms on Saturday night, | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
and there could still be some around, | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
particularly across parts of Scotland, on Sunday. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
A few showers developing through the day, | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
but for many, it'll be drier across central areas, and warmer, too. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
We could get to 17 degrees, | 0:02:07 | 0:02:08 | |
maybe 18 if the sun comes out across the south-east. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
Low pressure is still dominating | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
into the early part of the new working week. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
Where this weather front lies, again, open to a lot of uncertainty. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
But it does look as if there could still be a fair bit of rain around, | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
but it is a warm front | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
so, again, relatively warm air coming up across the south. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
Could see temperatures climbing into the high teens. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
And still on Tuesday, it's a messy picture, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
with low-pressure systems nearby, so showers never too far away. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
But the air still, at this stage, mostly coming up from the south | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
and bringing some warmer conditions. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
However, as we go through the middle part of next the week, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
we are expecting more of an Atlantic influence. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
The low-pressure systems starting to come in from the north-west, | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
so the surface winds will be more westerly, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
bringing in the Atlantic air. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
And what's driving that is the winds high up in the atmosphere. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
A change in the jet stream, coming more in from the Atlantic, | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
bringing low-pressure systems | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
through the latter half of next week. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
There is a lot of uncertainty, though, | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
about how this starts to come about | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
and how quickly we start to see this change | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
from the southerly winds bringing the warmer weather | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
to the westerly winds. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:16 | |
Eventually, the westerly winds will return, | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
meaning the days will turn a little cooler. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
There will always be some showers around | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
when the weather's coming in from the Atlantic, | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
but the nights will also be a lot milder | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
than the past couple of frosty ones. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 |