08/07/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello, there. No surprises - the weather for the week ahead

is going to follow a pattern very similar to the last few weeks.

We've got some warm air, drier air,

tantalisingly close across France

and across Iberia,

but as you move northwards

and out into the Atlantic, this is where

our weather's coming from,

and again, we see more areas of low pressure.

After some heavy rain overnight,

things improve during Friday.

But for one or two showers in the afternoon,

it should be dry for most places.

Brighter, with some sunshine, too.

Temperatures getting up to around 19 or 20 Celsius.

Could get a bit warmer than that, though, at Wimbledon,

after some morning rain and drizzle

across southern England.

Things look fairly quiet as we head into the evening,

Friday evening,

but notice more cloud and freshening winds

and some rain beginning to gather

across the west, into Wales,

across north-west England, moving across Northern Ireland

and into Scotland as well.

So a warm night ahead,

especially with some stronger winds.

The reason we're getting stronger winds -

this area of low pressure is a deeper one.

It contains some stronger winds,

and these weather fronts will focus the rain.

So at this stage, it looks like we've got rain

moving northwards across Scotland on Saturday.

Maybe dry for the most of the day across Northern Ireland,

but some rain for Wales, heavy over western hills,

and rain moving northwards across England.

Towards the south-east, not much rain, not much sunshine -

really quite warm and humid here.

We're all going to see some rain, I think,

during Saturday night. Could be quite heavy,

running northwards across Scotland,

as that low-pressure gets that little bit closer.

That weather front taking some patchy rain and drizzle

across the south-east of England.

On Sunday morning it pulls away.

We get fresher air coming in behind.

A lot of showers, longer spells of rain

for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Some sunshine and some showers

and a blustery wind for England and Wales.

Shame it's not particularly settled -

a lot going on this weekend.

T in the Park at Strathallan. Some heavy rain Saturday night.

Some rain not far away from the Scottish Open.

Probably improving weather for the British Grand Prix.

The rain very much open to doubt, really, here over the weekend.

And at Wimbledon as well, for most of the time it should be dry.

Very muggy on Saturday.

Much fresher on Sunday.

And that fresher air continues on Monday as well.

Again some quite strong winds,

especially across England and Wales,

where we'll see those showers moving down from the north.

Some of them could be heavy,

possibly even with a rumble or two of thunder.

Although that low-pressure is heading its way towards Scandinavia,

we still have an airflow from a cool direction,

a north-westerly airflow.

And we could see some more showers as well.

Not too many for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

A chillier night here.

We've got more showers pushing into southern parts of England,

and again some of these could be heavy,

possibly with some hail and thunder, too.

Now, what we need for some drier weather

at this time of the year is the Azores High

to move closer to our shores.

That tends to bring us better weather over the summer.

But it tries to push our way

around the middle part of the week,

but it looks like it will get squeezed away

by another area of low pressure,

bringing some stronger winds and some rain.

And as we head into later next week,

this is the position of the jet stream.

Again, not changing very much.

That steers areas of low-pressure

more towards the north-west of the UK.

This is where it will be wet and windy at times.

Head towards the south-east, not quite so wet,

and at times it will be a little bit warmer as well.

That's it. Goodbye.

Gregg and Chris are back to help us slash the weekly food bill.

Let's get to work.