05/08/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Thanks for tuning in to our outlook for the next week or so.

And I'm sure you've noticed

that in the last few days it's been quite blustery.

Winds have died down more recently -

in fact, a lovely day with light winds on the way on Friday.

Then, come the weekend, it looks like

the winds are going to pick up again.

So it's sort quite changeable out there right now.

This is the pattern for Friday.

High pressure will be very close to the UK on Friday,

driving our settled weather,

but then this bump in the jet stream

that's going to develop an area of low pressure

will send more windy weather in our direction.

So we're getting these little ripples along the jet stream,

which makes the weather change from day to day.

So, Friday we're in that window of much calmer weather.

Remember, this high pressure starting to build across the UK,

so lots of sunshine around,

24 Celsius, not a bad day across northern areas,

apart from maybe the odd shower as well.

And with high pressure close by,

the winds will be light into Friday night and Saturday,

so that means fairly cool conditions as well.

But winds are going to be increasing

through the course of Saturday morning.

We, in fact, develop gales by the time we get to the evening,

and the reason for it is

this high pressure's still kind of in charge

of the weather in the south,

but this low - quite a big nasty one -

is going to zip across the UK

during the course of the weekend,

bringing unseasonably windy weather.

So, for Saturday morning, for most of us,

a nice, crisp, sunny start,

but the winds behind me, you can see increasing here -

that's that low pressure in the Atlantic heading in our direction.

Gale-force winds, bringing weather fronts with it too,

so thicker cloud and some outbreaks of rain

to the far northwest of our neighbourhood.

Way to the south-east it's going to be warm.

And then, Saturday night into Sunday,

that low pressure zips to the north of the UK.

Lots of isobars here.

Quite often, when you see these little bumps in the isobars

it means very gusty, very buffeting winds across the UK.

So, from northern England northwards we could get gusts of up to 50mph.

That could even bring a branch down. Really blustery one.

To the south, it's breezy too,

nowhere near as windy though,

and temperatures still managing

to get up to around about 24 Celsius.

Now, with these ripples in the jet stream,

we keep getting these weather systems coming in.

Here's another one - not quite so windy, this one.

So this one arrives on Monday, bringing increasing winds,

a little bit of rain,

there'll be a weak weather front here,

perhaps bringing fresher conditions to Scotland.

But to the south of us the winds are coming in from that direction -

you can see the winds are almost merging here, so warmer weather.

Now, look at this - Monday,

we still have little ripples in the jet stream here and there,

so when that happens the weather keeps changing.

But as we head into Tuesday,

things will change out there in the Atlantic,

in fact the weather looks as though it will start to calm down.

Look at this - this is Tuesday, lots of fine, dry weather.

We can see very little in the way of wind here -

most of the arrows are to the north,

that's where the breezy weather is with one or two showers.

And the reason why things are going to calm down

well into next week

is because we get this pattern in the jet stream -

a big ridge developing here.

This is a wide, very wide ridge, big area of low pressure.

We're on the cool side of it, though,

so with high pressure bringing settled weather,

it's actually going to drag some cooler air in our direction too.

That basically means that

rather than the days being particularly cold,

it's the nights that will feel quite cool.

So with that changing pattern, it'll stay dry,

there'll be some sunshine around for sure,

but the nights will be fairly clear and cool.

So, windy, changeable weather for the next few days,

and then next week things will calm down.