30/07/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there. The working week and done a fairly active note,

we had some heavy downpours,

some thunderstorms and funnel clouds around to end the day on Friday.

Now, over the next few days, things are looking quiet,

we've got high pressure sitting out in the Atlantic,

out towards the south-west of the UK, low pressure towards the

north-east, and that leaves us with a north-westerly influence

to our weather through the course of the weekend, and for the

first part of the coming week too.

So, for Saturday, lots dry weather with some long spells of sunshine,

but there will be scattered showers developing more

especially across the north-western half the country.

Whereas, further south and east fewer showers developing

during the day.

Still pretty warm in London, 24 degrees or so, but further north

temperatures typically in the high teens or the low 20s.

So, heading through Saturday night then,

most of those showers tending to ease away fairly quickly,

so under the clearing skies, and with that fresh north-westerly

breeze it will be quite chilly into the early hours of Sunday.

In fact, first thing Sunday,

temperatures quite widely into single figures in the countryside.

So a fresh start to the day on Sunday,

but things are shaping up fairly fine once again, so

a report performance to Saturday, plenty of sunny spells,

there will be a scattering of showers, again mainly across

parts of Northern Ireland, Scotland, perhaps northern England and Wales.

Fewer showers towards the south-east,

but you couldn't rule out an isolated shower, almost anywhere,

16 to 23 degrees, but certainly feeling fresher and less

humid in the south than it has done.

So, then as we head into the new working week,

we're going to start to see areas of low pressure trying

to move in from the Atlantic,

so through the day on Monday most parts of the country yet again

having a dry day with some sunshine and just one or two showers.

But you'll notice this area of rain and some brisk winds just

pushing into the south-west of England perhaps south Wales,

working gradually eastwards.

It's likely that some of that rain will linger across parts of

East Anglia and the south-east first thing Tuesday but it should

clear off towards the east,

some uncertainty on details of any of that rain on Tuesday.

But elsewhere, lots of dry weather

once again and temperatures around 18 to 22 degrees.

And looking on into the middle part of the week,

heading into Wednesday,

we're going to start to see low pressure moving in from

the Atlantic, so a more energised weather pattern, I think,

through the middle of the week and through Wednesday that's

probably going to be the wettest day of the week,

the potential for weather warnings to be issued due to the some

spells of heavy rain gradually working from west to east across

much of the country.

Temperatures around 17 to perhaps 23 degrees or so.

Any signs of a summer heatwave on the way?

Well, we have got some heat across Europe,

but it's generally to be found further the south, so across parts

of Iberia right through the central Mediterranean, towards Turkey too.

Temperatures here widely in the mid-30s.

Now, in order to import that heat we need the winds to come from

a southerly direction,

in fact if you cast your minds back around ten days or so,

we had heatwave conditions with the air coming from this very direction.

But actually what we are going to be seeing through the course of

next week is more of an Atlantic influence to our weather,

so in general the winds will be coming in from the west,

at times more southerly, at times a little bit more northerly,

but no signs of any very warm air coming our way,

certainly through the course of next week.

So it looks like, as we head through into the end of the week,

we will start to see areas of low pressure dominating things,

so that does mean things are looking rather unsettled, but

there will be some dry interludes with higher pressure in between.

So, it's going to be a story of sunshine and showers as we

look through the first part of August.

It looks like the driest of the weather will be across

southern parts of the country and temperatures, after the recent

heat and humidity, should be around average.

That's it for now, bye-bye.