30/05/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello, thank you for tuning into the weather for the week ahead.

For the start of the working week, at least for most of us,

it does look as though the weather is going to go downhill.

In fact, eastern and south-eastern areas are in for some rain

and the rain's coming out of the Continent here.

In fact, this weather system has been plaguing

parts of Europe in the last few days with some severe thunder storms.

We are going to be brushed by this weather front.

But some of the rain could be heavy

and there could be some thunder and lightning with it as well.

So let's see how things are panning out from Tuesday morning.

The rush hour - initially the rain could be

heavy across the south-east into East Anglia and also Lincolnshire.

The west, a very different story. Here, in fact, it's the opposite.

We're waking up to some sunshine, fine conditions

and that's how it's going to stay for most of the day.

So from Cornwall through Wales into Northern Ireland and Scotland,

a beautiful day with some sunshine and balmy.

Look at that, 20 in Belfast, 21 in Glasgow.

But colder, with some northerly winds there

particularly around these North Sea coasts.

And all of this cloudy

and at times wet weather will be shifting in a westerly

direction through the course of Tuesday night into Wednesday.

So Wednesday itself looks generally unsettled across the UK.

Particularly across England and Wales. Now here's the weather front.

You can see it draped across northern parts of the country,

down into Wales as well.

So these areas will be getting some heavy rainfall.

In fact, on Wednesday, it's more northern parts of the country

that could get the really heavy rain.

The details of exactly where this heavy rain is going to go

are uncertain, but I think the best message for you,

middle part of the week is across England and Wales, expect some rain.

But for Scotland and Northern Ireland, I think

here we're going to get away with it.

In fact, in Glasgow, temperatures of around 19 degrees Celsius.

Beautiful weather there in the Western Isles for the middle

part of the week.

Towards Thursday, things are going to change.

This area of high pressure around Iceland is going to send

winds from the north or the north-east

and they are going to be pushing these weather fronts away.

Imagine the weather fronts here being pushed by these winds.

The weather fronts will fizzle away.

That means less rain, but still the remnants of it in the form

of cloud across the south of the country.

So I think the best of the weather on Thursday will be across Scotland

and Northern Ireland,

and that pattern is going to continue into Friday as well.

It's a big area of high pressure here.

It's squeezing out these weather fronts, pushing them

out of the way and things are settling down into Friday.

But northerly winds, that's a cool source,

so temperatures will take a bit of a tumble across some

parts of the country, 12 for example in Newcastle.

I don't think it will be higher

than about 17 degrees across the south of the country.

Then Friday and into the weekend,

the high pressure still dominates this portion of Europe.

One area that we are watching is this low here.

We'll talk about that in a second,

but I think the basic message for the weekend is -

cooler northerly to north-easterly winds with a bit of sunshine,

it will warm up to close to 20.

But those North Sea coasts will remain on the chilly side.

And similar weather, I think, for most of us on Sunday as well.

Early next week, this high pressure that's been stuck here for quite

some time, will eventually fizzle away, or fade away, that is

and that low that I showed you on the weather map, is going

to edge closer to the UK, bringing slightly more unsettled weather.

So I think the summary for next week is that it is going to

stay dry, but then as that low pressure nears us,

things are going to gradually turn a little bit more unsettled,

a bit more cloud and a greater chance of catching some rainfall.

So the next few days, a little bit up and down.