30/08/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Well, thanks for joining me,

and it's mostly good news on the weather front today.

Lots of fine, settled, dry weather

across the south of the country - perhaps not enough rainfall,

because our gardens, really,

would like a little bit more rain.

The further north you go, the weather will be more changeable.

We'll have some spells of rain,

a breeze coming off the Atlantic, as well,

so, cooler, fresher,

across this part of the world where you'd expect it.

Now, this is what it looks like across the Atlantic right now -

you can see weather patterns swirling around here,

so, very busy - in fact,

one of these weather systems making its presence felt

across the north-west of the UK,

and we'll be seeing some of these weather fronts

crossing the country through the first part of this week,

but it's also very busy down in the tropics -

it's the middle of hurricane season,

we've had Hurricane Gaston swirling around

above the Atlantic here, not really bothering anybody,

but it will be finally making a move northwards,

and what happens is, when the remnants of these weather systems

get caught up in our normal air streams, here,

our normal weather patterns,

things tend to get a little bit more disrupted,

and forecasting the weather becomes just that little bit more tricky,

so that's something that we're going to be watching this week -

but in the short term,

it's looking great across most of the UK.

On Tuesday, again, very little in the way of rainfall,

turning quite hot, as well.

You can see one weather front here, approaching the UK,

but even in Northern Ireland and western parts of Scotland

I think it should be dry.

Some of these western coasts, here, at times,

will be a little but more cloudy, perhaps murky,

off the coasts of Wales and the south-west,

but, for most of us,

it's going to be a fine, if not hot, actually, day

across the south-east.

Here's Tuesday into Wednesday,

so one of these Atlantic weather fronts finally pushes through.

It's quite a narrow weather front,

so there's not going to be an awfully long spell of rain

with it - in fact, by the time it moves into the south-east,

it's just a bit of cloud and a few spots of rain -

and I think temperatures still just about nudging up

into the mid 20s across the south-east -

much fresher there with these Atlantic winds

in places like Belfast and Glasgow,

and that weather front will continue to make its journey

until it completely fizzles out across the south-east

and into the Continent,

and then we get this ridge of high pressure,

so it's usually between two weather fronts -

that's the technical term, "ridge" -

and then the next weather front comes through

during the course of Thursday, again bringing some rainfall

into north-western areas and, you guessed it,

the best of the weather

will be across eastern and south-eastern areas,

here, temperatures up to around about 20 degrees Celsius.

So, towards the end of the week,

it's looking fairly fresh across most of the UK,

low pressure here sending further weather fronts in our direction,

bit of a breeze,

so, I think, a good chance of catching some showers

almost anywhere on Friday -

but this is more or less how it's looking,

and then, from Friday onwards, certainly Saturday, Sunday,

that's when things become tricky.

Remember, I talked about that tropical weather system, there -

Hurricane Gaston - so, the thinking is

that it will be finally moving northwards,

as they usually do, dying a death -

but that's not the only one that we're watching,

there's a potential for more tropical troublemakers, there.

One across Florida,

and also just another one off the eastern sea.

All of these will be moving in our direction,

but particularly this one, Gaston, could disrupt our weather patterns -

but I think the bottom line is,

as the remnants of these weather systems move into our latitudes,

they tend to send warmer air in our direction,

so, actually, it could turn out to be quite warm -

but also unsettled.

I think the best of the weather

will probably remain across south-eastern areas.

So, for this week, our eyes will be on the horizon,

out there into the tropics, and the Atlantic.

We will keep you posted.