14/08/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. There are some changes on the way

for the weather for the week ahead.

It's going to be quite a roller-coaster ride,

especially in terms of temperatures.

What we are seeing at the moment is that pressure is rising.

This area of high pressure is holding up from the south-west, that

is settling things down, not just on Sunday but over the next few days.

There's going to be little, if any, rain around.

With increasing amounts of sunshine,

we are going to find temperatures rising in the next couple of days.

We start Sunday with some sunshine in places but quite a lot of

cloud developing and spreading out, especially over inland areas.

Perhaps the best of the sunshine by the afternoon, west Wales,

south-west England along the south coast.

Sunny spells in northern England and eastern Scotland.

Temperatures on Sunday very similar to those of Saturday.

A lot of this cloud will then fade away as the sun goes down.

While there won't be clear skies everywhere, Sunday night and

Monday morning could be a good time to watch the meteor shower.

Hardly a breath of wind overnight,

a little chilly across northern parts of the UK.

For Monday we start bright and sunny in most areas.

There will be a little bit of patchy cloud but we won't see

a repeat performance of Sunday,

we won't see that cloud spreading out and spoiling the sunshine.

So more high temperatures,

a bit more warmth around and that warmth will push northwards

into southern Scotland and Northern Ireland.

So temperatures improving here.

High pressure by Monday into Tuesday is centred more to the east

of the UK.

We'll start to see the breeze just freshening

a touch across western areas and where we have an onshore breeze,

say along the south coast of England,

maybe a gentle breeze along the east coast as well.

Temperatures will be held back a touch.

But another nice warm day,

temperatures widely, in the sunshine, low-to-mid 20s.

On Wednesday, things start to change a little bit but probably

only in the west.

We have still got high pressure across most of the UK, this

weather front is beginning to arrive into western areas and bring a

few showers into Northern Ireland, perhaps Wales and the south-west.

We could get a rumble or two of thunder, the odd flash of lightning.

For many places it is still going to be a dry day and a warm one as well.

Temperatures probably peaking on Wednesday.

Highs of around the mid-20s across east Wales,

the Midlands towards the south-east.

Could get as high as 26 or 27 degrees.

At one stage it looked like we were going to get 30 degrees or so but,

in order to get that,

we needed to have our winds coming up from France and Spain,

but instead, the breeze more from the east,

more from the Low Countries and perhaps from Germany as well.

Later in the week, we see our first weather front bringing those

showers in the west just fading away.

We get a second push in from the Atlantic with an area of low

pressure trying to drive some rain into the UK.

But it is a painfully slow process.

Most of the models take the low pressure to the south-west

so this is where we will see most of the rain into the end of the week,

for the start of the weekend.

That low pressure may pull away and the Azores High returns.

But perhaps only briefly by the end of the weekend.

What we are seeing in the longer term is things turning much

more unsettled. There will be some sunshine around

but we are going to find

a little rain, mostly in the west.

Temperatures will be dropping nearer to where they

should be at this time of the year.

That's it. Goodbye.