14/07/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. It's time to take a look a little further

ahead with the weather.

But initially let's take a look at the rest of this week.

It's been a very showery week.

That was certainly true again on Wednesday, this taken in Kent.

You can see the virga, the rain coming down in the distance.

We did have some sunshine between the showers up in North Yorkshire

and it does feel a little bit more like July when the sun shines.

And we should have more of that sunshine as we move into Thursday

because, arriving across the shores of the UK, a ridge of high pressure.

It looks set to be the driest day of the week

so far with some decent spells of sunshine, especially in the morning.

There could still be the odd light shower in the south first

thing and the odd one in eastern areas but you'll be unlucky,

I think, if you catch one.

For most of us, we'll just find the fair-weather cloud tends

to bubble up through the day but, of course, with light winds

and more sunshine than we've had, it will feel very pleasant.

It's worth saying it's strong sunshine, we are in July.

But temperatures will get into the high teens in the sunshine

in the north. Not a bad day for Troon

and we should see some decent

spells of sunshine, even into the afternoon further south.

Probably the best of the sunshine will be found around the coasts

because, at this time of year, the cloud tends to bubble up inland

and that's where we see the cloudier spells into the afternoon.

But it'll still be bright and it'll still feel warm and you'll

be, as I say, very unlucky if you catch more than one shower.

It's the start of the first Test, England-Pakistan in Lord's tomorrow.

Very unlucky if we catch one of those light showers.

There will be a good deal of play here, as there will in Troon,

although we could have quite a wet morning on Friday here.

And the winds are going to be quite significant.

We're talking gales potentially for the far north-west of Scotland

through Friday and into the start of the weekend, so unusually windy.

And that's because this next weather system arrives through

Thursday night and into Friday.

Not much rain in southern areas, just a lot more cloud, I think,

particularly across Wales and western England.

Further north some spells of rain. Quite muggy air.

The humidity will be rising in southern areas.

Now, as we go through Friday night and to Saturday, there's

some uncertainty as to how quickly that cold weather front comes south.

Notice there's not much rain left on it but it will be quite grey

and grotty, I should imagine. Quite dank underneath that cloud.

Some sunshine coming out behind it, heavy showers.

Those strong winds I talked about in the north and west.

But very little rain in the south,

just quite dreary under the weather front.

Behind it, it's fresher air coming in,

so we drop the humidity as we go towards Sunday

once that weather front clears away.

So still achieving temperatures into the high teens and the low 20s,

about average for the time of year. Still some showers in the north.

Winds starting to ease away but, as I say, we've lost the humidity

because we've got the westerly wind back in.

That westerly wind will keep the weather mobile through

the early part of the new week, which means we will see further

weather systems coming in, bringing with them their rain.

It looks as if they will always bring most of that rain

towards the north because, hovering close by to the south,

where we look for our dry weather often at this time of year,

as the Azores High is just drifting its way northwards,

and that may well happen at times through the week but it may

be quite transient, just like the day ahead's ridge of high pressure.

So, at the moment, as we look ahead, it looks like most

of the wetter weather will be in the north and west,

nearer to those areas of low pressure.

The driest nearer the high-pressure further south.

Not much heat, though.

But it will feel pleasant if you're in the sunshine and it's dry.

As ever, you can get more information on the website

and John will be back tomorrow evening to update you.

Bye-bye.