14/12/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Tuesday saw quite a variety of weather across the

United Kingdom as is often the case.

It was captured nicely by some of our weather watchers.

Here's just a couple of examples. A lucky few saw some sunshine.

That's the view in the afternoon across

the Highlands of Scotland

Pretty good one but it certainly wasn't like that for all.

For many it was like this with some

low cloud and

mist lingering into the afternoon.

A little bit of rain to go with that.

But at least it was a mild day and it stays mild for the rest of

this week.

A fair bit of cloud in the forecast and most of the rain will be

on the western side of the UK.

We've got some rain

coming in from the west for Wednesday

morning and notice a fair number of isobars,

as well so it's breezy but the

breeze is coming in from the south.

And that's bringing mild air with it.

That mild air pushes right the way across the UK.

Temperatures will be doing very well for this stage in September.

8 o'clock in the morning it's 10-11 degrees across large parts of

Scotland, but a lot of cloud and some rain.

The rain heaviest in some central and western parts.

Breezy too.

Breezy and wet in Northern Ireland through the morning.

Things should improve through the afternoon.

It is mild, 10-11 degrees.

Across England and Wales, 9-10 degrees quite widely.

A lot of cloud through the morning.

Some of that's quite low over the hills.

There's some hill fog and poor visibility to go with that.

But most places are dry except in Cornwall,

a little bit or rain here.

This band of rain wants to move

eastwards but it's a slow

process so we will see a little rain in western Wales into Cornwall.

Northern Ireland should dry up into the afternoon but it will

be fairly wet for large parts of Scotland.

Much of the eastern side of Wales, eastern England,

after a great start we brighten things up from the south.

13-14 with a bit of sunshine but it is

a double digit day across the board.

Through the evening our weather front generally fizzles out.

We look out west for the next system to head our way.

This is trying to move eastwards but it's running into a big area

of high pressure across the near continent which will slow it down.

It will get into Northern Ireland through the day.

Breezy with rain coming in from the west later on.

Ahead of that, dribs and drabs of rain really across Scotland

and Northern England.

The further south you are it's largely dry.

And maybe a bit of sunshine here and there but generally a lot of cloud.

Still mild, 10 or 11 degrees in the south. 8 and 9 further north.

Through Friday on into Saturday high

pressure builds across the UK

and away from the northwest most

places will be fine and dry

and not particularly windy.

By Sunday high pressure still in charge of our weather.

The strongest winds will be in the north and west.

Little bit of rainfall here.

Elsewhere it's a largely dry if cloudy picture.

Temperatures are coming down a little bit but still doing

quite well for this time of year.

Into the early part of next week we'll take a look at the

jet stream because it's powerful on the western side of the Atlantic.

As it gets further east it has a tendency to split,

it goes to the north and south of us.

And that allows this big area of

high pressure to dominate.

That will be a blocking high

stopping weather fronts

coming in from the Atlantic.

Underneath that area of

high pressure there's going to be

a lot of dry weather, that's for sure.

Particularly for central and eastern areas.

There will be spells

of sunshine but difficult to be pinpoint

accurate with exactly where is going to see that.

Where you do see sunshine

you could see frost in the mornings.

Equally some places could be quite

grey with some patches of fog,

particularly where the winds are quite light and the fog could

lift into fairly low cloud.

But there's a lot of dry

weather in the forecast.

Even on into the latter part of next

week it looks dry for most

places most of the time.

A further update tomorrow.