29/05/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

The past few days have brought us

some fairly fine summer-like weather with some sunshine.

Over the next week or so,

things are gradually going to be turning rather unsettled.

Here's the scene taken on Saturday

by one of our weather watchers

in Dumfries and Galloway

showing the extent of the sunshine there.

As we look through the day on Sunday, still some sunshine,

also a few scattered showers around, but I think, for most places,

we're looking at a dry day.

A bit of a northerly breeze developing

across parts of eastern and south-east England,

drawing in a little bit more cloud,

perhaps one or two showers late in the afternoon

and also we're going to be seeing a few showers

for north-western parts of Scotland

and for Northern Ireland,

but for the rest of the UK, a lot of dry weather

and in the sunshine, it should feel pleasantly warm -

21, possibly 22 degrees or so,

always that little bit cooler

around the eastern coasts

of Scotland and England, too.

Heading through Sunday night

and on into the bank holiday on Monday,

what we're going to start to see

is an area of low pressure across the near Continent

exerting its influence a little bit more

so strengthening northerly winds across East Anglia

and the south-east first thing.

The rest of the country,

first thing bank holiday Monday, mainly dry,

a little bit of patchy mist and cloud around.

But here's that area of low pressure

which is slowly churning around

parts of northern France,

tightening isobars associated with that system

as that low pressure deepens

so that means some fairly strong,

possibly gale force winds

across parts of the south-east of England,

East Anglia, too.

So, the winds here strengthening, cloud pouring in

and a few sharp showers later in the day,

initially for the likes of Lincolnshire and Norfolk,

heading further south down towards Kent.

For the rest of the country,

away from the south-east,

it's a fairly warm and a bright day, too.

Lighter winds here.

Temperatures in Cardiff, for instance,

up to around 20 degrees,

just 13 Celsius there in Norwich.

Moving on through bank holiday Monday

and on into Tuesday,

low pressure still sitting across parts of France

so it's quite a slow-moving system,

starting to fill that area of low pressure,

but we've still got weather fronts associated with it

spinning their way northwards across the country.

Some uncertainty by this point in the week,

but we could see some spells of rain through

parts of southern England, Wales,

perhaps up towards northern England and Scotland, too.

Either side of that band of rain,

there will be some brighter weather

and temperatures will be starting to push up

towards the south-east once again

with the arrival of some showers around, too.

Heading on into the middle part of the week,

that low pressure drifting its way

slowly into southern parts of England.

Again, there's some uncertainty

about the detail heading on into Wednesday.

It does look like we've still got that front with us.

It's fairly slow moving, but, by Wednesday,

it's likely to affect central parts of Scotland,

perhaps Northern Ireland as well,

whereas further south,

some warmer humid air pouring in from the near Continent,

but also bringing with it

a risk of heavy showers and thunderstorms.

Then as we look towards the latter part of the week, then,

low pressure starting to fill

to ease away towards the south.

We've still got that lingering weather front

set to bring some outbreaks of rain

as we look towards the end of the week

so Thursday into Friday,

we've still got the influence

of that area of low pressure.

Then, late next week,

it starts to push off towards the south

so most of the rain will clear away.

High pressure starting to creep in

from the north-west of the UK.

Now, in between these two systems,

we could well draw in the breeze

from an east or north-easterly direction,

leading to slightly cooler conditions

around the east coast.

But, in general, things will become drier

as we head through the latter part of next week

with high pressure pushing in.

We've got a cool breeze developing

for many eastern areas

with the warmest and the brightest of the weather

generally to be found further west.

But for the rest of the bank holiday weekend,

most of us should see some sunshine. Bye for now.