31/12/2016 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there. Fog has been quite a hazard in recent days, and I suspect

it will be as we get on into the first part of New Year's Eve.

The worst of the fog will be across East Anglia and the

south-east of England, quite dense in places.

It could be quite tricky on some of the faster routes,

so do take care on the roads.

There may well be further delays at the airports.

If you're on the move, BBC local radio should keep you up to date.

The worst of the fog will be across parts of East Anglia,

the south-east of England, a few patches of fog elsewhere.

It'll be slow to clear because the winds are fairly light

from the south-west.

That breeze in Northern Ireland and Scotland helps to keep

the fog at bay, and we'll see a weather front slipping its

way ever southwards, bringing some rain with it.

By the afternoon, ten or eleven degrees for Glasgow, Belfast,

and around about ten degrees for Cardiff and London, as well.

As we get on through the evening, our weather front is drifting south.

It'll eventually clear from southern Scotland.

By about midnight it's across northern England and parts of Wales.

South and east of that, it's fine and dry and relatively mild.

To the north of our weather front,

it's turning colder all the while, cold enough for some snow showers

to take us on into the first part of New Year's Day.

Some of those will get down to quite low levels in northern Scotland.

But our weather front is rather slow to move away from the south, so it

will be quite a grey day across the south-eastern corner in particular.

But follow those isobars back and they go a long way north,

some Arctic air flooding down across the UK for the start of 2017.

And that Arctic air will be across all parts by the latter part

of the day, and there's quite a breeze, as well.

The strongest winds will be across the North Sea coastal areas,

just accentuating the chilly feel to things,

and there'll be a breeze down some western coasts, as well.

Wintry showers continue in northern Scotland and

maybe cropping up in the Southern Uplands, maybe the north Pennines.

As I say, it'll be a pretty slow day across East Anglia

and the south-east, that rain taking a while to clear away.

But it does do eventually, and then by Bank Holiday Monday,

it looks like a pretty decent day, actually, for many places.

A fair number of isobars on the chart. It will be quite breezy,

particularly windy around some western and eastern coasts.

But out of that breeze, inland, actually it looks pretty decent.

Yes, it'll be a cold start to the day,

and it will be a cold day generally speaking,

but there should be winter sunshine,

particularly across England and Wales.

More cloud around on Tuesday, but not much, really,

a little bit in the north and west.

Many places will be dry, but after a cold start it's only four,

five or six degrees, seven maybe if you are lucky.

On to the middle of the week, and high pressure remains in charge.

Some weather fronts just lurking out in the Atlantic, but all in all

through the middle of the week it's another essentially dry day.

A lot of cloud, though, trapped underneath that high,

and still a bit of a breeze down that North Sea coast.

Maybe a shower or two for some western areas, but most places

will be dry but still cold, six, seven or eight degrees

fairly typical through the middle part of the week.

And then, as we head on into the latter part of the coming week,

well, high pressure is slowly losing its influence and weather

fronts are starting to pile their way in from the west.

So the north and the west of the UK

likely to see rain later on next week.

Not too much of that gets down towards the south-east.

And then, as we head on into the following weekend, well, the most

likely scenario is for a cold north or north-easterly wind to develop.

And with the wind coming from that direction,

we can expect to see some wintry weather developing.

There'll be snow showers, mainly in the north and north-east of the UK,

and there'll be some snow over the higher ground, but some

of that snow will probably get down to lower levels at times, as well.

So, into next weekend,

we're going to keep the cold feel across all parts of the UK.

It'll be quite windy, as well, the winds still coming down from the

north or north-east, bringing a few

wintry showers in the mix, as well. A further update tomorrow.