16/06/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. Coming into work yesterday,

I heard somebody use the phrase "flaming June".

But perhaps not quite in the context that it's intended.

Looking back at some of the Weather Watchers' photographs through today,

you can really understand why it's been wet at times.

Stormy often, with some dramatic thunderstorms.

Even some funnel clouds being sent in

on our Weather Watchers' pictures.

The intensity of those storms...

Well, they've caused some localised flooding.

But by complete contrast,

the Northern Isles have seen some beautiful weather this week.

Orkney and Shetland, plenty of blue sky and sunshine.

Why?

Well, an area of low pressure has been sitting across the country.

It's been driving this pause-rewind-repeat story

of plenty of showers for many of us.

It does look as though, as we head towards the weekend, though,

we will start to see a change.

For Thursday, though, it's back to same old same old.

Starting off quiet.

Through England and Wales,

we'll see some showers developing through the course of the day.

Some of them heavy, possibly slow-moving and thundery again.

To the far north of Scotland,

we'll have some outbreaks of light, patchy rain.

But still a cooler feel here generally - 11 to 15 degrees.

Further south, in the sunshine, if you dodged the showers,

highest values of 20 Celsius.

Now, most of the showers will start to ease

through Thursday night, into Friday,

and drift that little bit further south.

It's going to be a relatively mild night, nine to 14 degrees.

But the area of low pressure is starting to push its way southwards.

So on Friday, it looks as though most of the showers

will be confined south of the M4 corridor.

We'll also, at the same time, pick up more cloud and outbreaks of rain

across eastern Scotland and north-east England.

Here, it stays cool and disappointing.

Further south, highest values again

of around 18, 19, possibly 20 degrees.

By the weekend, though, we're likely to see a change.

This ridge of high pressure starts to build from the south-west.

It's a fleeting glimpse of something a little quieter,

but at least it arrives for the weekend.

And hopefully, we should see a good deal of dry weather.

Fingers crossed, even a little bit of sunshine from time to time.

So if we start Saturday, then,

there will be some drier, brighter weather coming through.

And it does look as though most of us

should see some sunshine from time to time.

12 to 18 degrees, the overall high.

By the time we get into Sunday,

there is an outside chance of a weak weather front

producing a few showers out to the west, nothing significant.

The best of the sunshine likely to be the further east you are.

And again, highs of 15 to 19 degrees.

But that area of high pressure is squeezed out of the way

and another area of low moves in, bringing wet and windy weather.

The isobars squeezing together

and that'll be more of a significant feature for the start of next week.

It's going to take its time in arriving,

probably not getting into much of the eastern half of the UK

until the end of the day on Monday.

But it will bring outbreaks of rain, strong winds,

albeit from a southerly direction.

So a milder feel, with highs of 21 degrees,

if you keep the sun.

And then into next week, to the longer six to ten-day period.

We start to see this battleground,

with the high pressure down to the south-west

and low pressure up into the north-west,

where the isobars remain a feature.

And this is going to be the level of uncertainty...

Just how much wet weather

we're likely to see and where it's going to be.

At the moment, it looks likely

that the north-west stays pretty unsettled.

Fingers crossed, some of us in the south

will see some drier, sunnier moments.

I'll firm up on it tomorrow.

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