06/10/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

If you were watching yesterday,

I was indicating how the behaviour of Hurricane Matthew

could influence our weather eventually.

Now, that is still the case,

but there are still big question marks,

as we'll see in a moment.

What we ARE confident about

is the fact that easterly winds will cool things off across

our part of the world in the next few days -

those winds coming off a cooling continent at this time of year,

and carrying a bit more cloud than we've seen in recent days,

and eventually that cloud could produce the odd shower

across parts of East Anglia and the far south-east.

Still a lot of dry weather,

and the best of the sunshine further north and west -

Western Scotland doing pretty well, but wherever you are,

temperatures will be a little bit lower

than they have been in recent days,

and, as we head into the night and on into Friday,

that cloud becomes more widespread,

and the showers become more widespread, too.

No great amounts,

and there'll still be a lot of dry weather out there on Friday,

but more cloud than we've seen recently,

and in the breeze it will feel quite chilly,

I think, particularly where you're exposed to it

along those north sea currents, but still some sunshine to be had -

again, Western Scotland particularly well placed.

Now, in broad terms,

the picture isn't really changing that much

as we head through this weekend.

We've still got those easterly winds,

so it's all quite cool,

and they'll tend to moisten up, as well.

That means more cloud and more showers,

especially across the more central and eastern parts of the UK.

I mention cool - if anything, it's going to cool off even more,

with this area of blue pushing in from the north-east.

Not desperately cold - it's only October -

but temperatures will be below normal

for the time of year.

Not helped by all that cloud, and if you get caught by a shower,

it won't feel all that pleasant.

There will be some sharp showers around -

particularly, again, across some central and eastern areas.

West best once more for dry and bright weather -

but nowhere will it be warm.

At least the winds will start to ease off through this weekend -

mind you, that does mean that overnight,

if the skies stay clear, we could see a touch of frost,

and maybe one or two fog patches,

but generally a lot of cloud out there, some showers,

and that's really the scenery on Monday,

with some showers, again, across central and eastern areas,

western parts of the UK

continuing to see the best of the dry and bright weather,

but a chilly feel wherever you are

as we get into the early part of next week.

Now, what about Hurricane Matthew?

Well, there it is, it's a monster.

If anything, it's strengthening again,

and it's ploughing its way towards the Bahamas.

This is a serious storm, still, and with fierce winds,

a huge storm surge, and colossal amounts of rainfall.

That is bad news for the Bahamas

as it rips through on Thursday,

and then too close for comfort

to the eastern coast of Florida.

It could make landfall with huge impact -

and then it heads its way northwards.

Now, if you were watching on Tuesday,

I was indicating that the computer models

suggested that the storm would continue to move its way northwards

up the eastern seaboard towards Newfoundland

and even as far as Greenland,

and that would lead to a build of high pressure

across our part of the world.

Well, now, the computer models

are, well, changing their mind a little bit.

It looks like the storm will head north,

but then stall,

and could then begin to head back southwards again,

and be influenced by another storm,

Tropical Storm Nicole,

in the same part of the world.

So, again, the impact of that

on our weather back home, not clear cut -

but what the computer models are indicating,

that through the weekend and beyond,

the temperature does stay below normal,

green is the normal,

most of the computer models are indicating

that that chilly theme

continues right the way through next week -

but that could change depending on Matthew.

But, to sum up next week,

yes, it looks like staying pretty chilly.

Those showers continue,

and the brightest weather

looks like staying across western parts.

Sarah updates you tomorrow.

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