30/05/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

The weekend brought us plenty of fine and dry weather.

We had some low cloud around on Sunday that was fairly stubborn.

It was quite cool around the east coast.

Elsewhere, some sunny spells developing,

but we had some big shower clouds across the Highlands of Scotland,

as you can see by this scene

captured by one of our weather watchers.

As we head through this week, it's a largely dry start to things.

There will be some rain arriving through the middle part of the week,

a cool breeze for many eastern areas,

with the warmest and brightest weather

generally to be found in the west.

As we start bank holiday Monday,

a bit of an east-west split to things.

Central and eastern parts of England and Scotland fairly cloudy,

a cold northerly wind blowing,

particularly for East Anglia and down towards Kent,

where it will be strong at times.

Central and western areas having much more in the way of sunshine.

An isolated shower for Northern Ireland and western Scotland, too,

but temperatures in the west 21, possibly 22 degrees.

Much cooler where you're exposed

to that cruel northerly wind in the east.

But most places staying dry on into the evening.

And then overnight, what we see is the cloud for eastern areas

edging its way further west.

That wind really picking up, too.

So to start Tuesday, a wet and a windy picture

across the south-east corner, towards parts of East Anglia, too.

But elsewhere across the country, it should be a dry start to Tuesday.

Tuesday sees the influence of this low pressure

starting to move in from the south-east.

Some uncertainty about exactly how

that low-pressure system will behave,

but it looks like it'll throw in a cold front coming in from the east,

so that will bring some outbreaks of rain

across the likes of Lincolnshire, down towards the Isle of Wight, too.

Some pretty strong winds for this portion of eastern England.

Further north and west across the country,

sunshine for parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland,

Wales and the south-west, too,

with temperatures here 21 degrees or so.

Much cooler in the east under the cloud and with the rain

and that cool northerly wind, too.

Heading on to the middle of the week, so on into Wednesday now,

we've still got this low pressure drifting slowly around.

Looks like it heads further north and west across the country,

so that frontal system set to bring some rain,

probably somewhere around parts of northern England,

Wales, the south-west, too.

A few showers to the south of that,

but further north, things are remaining dry and settled,

again, with the highest temperatures further west,

cooler around that exposed eastern coast.

We've got this area of high pressure

out to the north and north-west of the UK,

with the winds rotating around a clockwise direction

around that high pressure.

It'll be fairly cool once again on Thursday,

particularly for northern and eastern parts of the country.

Looks like we'll have some spots of rain further south

as that weather front tends to fizzle away,

heading its way southwards.

Warmest of the weather for western areas,

but only around 12 degrees or so

for the likes of Aberdeen, and Newcastle, too.

So we're set to be ending this working week on a largely dry note

with the influence of that high pressure around.

But cool winds rotating around that area of high pressure,

so lots of dry weather, some sunshine,

especially for western areas.

A cool breeze and rather more cloud for some eastern areas.

Then if we look a little bit further ahead at what's happening.

It looks like that situation will hold out on into next weekend.

So high pressure likely to hold on to the north-west of the UK.

Cool north-easterly breeze for many eastern coasts.

But further south,

the winds coming in from more of a south-easterly direction,

bringing warmer weather to the south-west of England,

but also the chance of some thunderstorms

imported from the near continent.

So mainly dry conditions further ahead.

That cool breeze continuing in the east.

It's likely that we'll see a breakdown in the high pressure,

with rain eventually arriving towards the south-west.

But that's something we'll be keeping a close eye on

and we'll keep you up-to-date over the next couple of days.