26/06/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. Recently, we've seen rain

mainly in the form of heavy showers and thunderstorms,

delivering quite a lot of rain in a relatively short space of time.

The next few days there will be rain of a slightly different variety.

It'll be a bit lighter but probably covering a larger area.

But it was a thundery start to the weekend across much of central

and eastern England in particular, a few thunderstorms in Scotland

and some really heavy downpours with that.

A lot of energy in the atmosphere, and one of our Weather Watchers

in Northumberland captured this funnel cloud.

We saw some reports of funnel clouds elsewhere in the UK,

so it really was a very lively day.

And some very heavy downpours,

as captured here by another one of our Weather Watchers in Gateshead.

As we get towards dawn, most of the thundery activity will ease away.

One or two early showers towards East Anglia,

but most places start dry, although there's

a little rain near Northern Ireland.

But most of us dry. 12, 13 or 14 degrees

fairly typical in major towns and cities.

Might be a bit lower than that in some rural spots.

But a bright start for many in the east.

Further west, wetter weather in Northern Ireland drifting into

the western side of Scotland, the western side of England and Wales.

Not a great feel underneath that, temperatures in the middle teens,

but get further east and, yes, it does cloud over

into the afternoon, but many places stay fine and dry.

19 or so degrees in Newcastle, 20 in Norwich, 22 in London.

And then through Sunday night and into the small hours of Monday,

that weather front creeps south, and then for the bulk

of the day on Monday we're into this fresh north-westerly air stream.

And it's going to be a bright and breezy day on Monday,

probably the better day of the next few with a lot of dry

weather for many, although still a few showers in the north and west.

14 degrees in Glasgow, 21 in London.

Now, we keep those westerly winds coming through the day on Tuesday.

Low pressure to the north, weather fronts swinging around the base of

that low, heading our way to bring thicker cloud

and outbreaks of rather more persistent rain.

Across some northern and western parts of the UK in particular,

maybe some rain early in some southern counties,

but that should move further north into the afternoon,

and temperature-wise it's the middle to upper teens.

Now, Wimbledon starts on Monday. Should be a pretty decent day,

but Tuesday morning, the chance of some rain,

a higher chance of seeing some rain through the middle part of the week.

It looks pretty unsettled Tuesday night into Wednesday.

We've still got the low to the north of the UK,

weather fronts coming around the base of it,

bringing thicker cloud and spells of rain with it.

So on Wednesday the southern half of the UK in particular

looks pretty wet and pretty windy,

the windiest conditions probably down towards Cornwall and Devon.

Along the south coast, generally quite windy. Wet, too.

Sunny spells and showers the further north you go.

And yet more rain comes in from the west during the day on Thursday.

It looks as if the south-eastern corner is driest into the afternoon,

but a fair bit of cloud. 20 degrees will be the top temperature.

Now, in recent weeks, this has been the overall set-up, high pressure

to the north of the UK, a north-easterly breeze with that,

but the low to the south of the UK has been dragging in this warm,

humid air from the near Continent,

and that's helped to spark off some of those thunderstorms.

This week, we're going to change things around

and have low pressure to the north of the UK,

high pressure to the south and west of the UK,

and the resultant winds will be a westerly wind

coming in from the Atlantic, bringing patches of cloud

with it, and that cloud, in turn, is likely to bring some rain.

Now, most of the rain will be in the north-west, in closest proximity

to that area of low pressure, driest conditions in the south-east.

Not completely dry, but drier than it will be in the north and west.

A bit of a breeze at times,

and I think it'll feel a little bit fresher than it has done recently.

We'll lose that humidity. That's it. Bye for now.