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Hello. Well, belatedly perhaps the winter has been showing its teeth | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
over the last few days, hasn't it? | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
Cold east wind and some snow for some of us. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
The cold spell is not going to last all that long. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
In fact, the blues get swept away fairly promptly and next week | 0:00:10 | 0:00:13 | |
we get much warmer air indicated by the yellows here, | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
a real taste of spring for some of us in actual fact. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Let me show you in a different way, through this weekend | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
we're struggling to get much higher than what, | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
3 or 4 degrees, | 0:00:23 | 0:00:24 | |
but temperatures do rise steadily and quite widely will be | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
into double figures come the middle of the week and with some sunshine, | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
you'll notice the difference, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:31 | |
that's for sure. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:32 | |
It doesn't feel much like spring | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
out the at the moment, though does it, | 0:00:34 | 0:00:35 | |
with that cold easterly wind still? | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
Lots of cloud, rain, sleet, snow, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:38 | |
most of the stuff over this high ground, Wales, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
the Peak District and the Pennines | 0:00:41 | 0:00:42 | |
where some high level routes | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
could be quite badly affected. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:45 | |
Mostly rain at lower levels, | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
not much sunshine, though, | 0:00:47 | 0:00:48 | |
grey and cold, 3 and 4 degrees | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
is the best I can offer you | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
in many places, not helped by the strength | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
of the wind which will actually strengthen | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
further through Sunday night | 0:00:56 | 0:00:57 | |
and on into Monday as indicated | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
by the tightening of the isobars. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
Monday will be a very windy day indeed, | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
particularly out west, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:06 | |
where we're expecting gales | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
around exposed coasts and headlands. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
But we are going to see | 0:01:10 | 0:01:11 | |
increasing amounts of sunshine | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
spreading up from the south. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
A real change in the weather | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
for many of us and with higher | 0:01:16 | 0:01:17 | |
temperatures as well, | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
it's going to feel much more pleasant | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
across the southern half of the UK, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
still pretty raw further north | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
with a lots of cloud still | 0:01:24 | 0:01:25 | |
and that gusty wind across | 0:01:25 | 0:01:26 | |
eastern Scotland and north-east England. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
Still pretty windy on Tuesday, | 0:01:28 | 0:01:29 | |
that south-easterly coming in off the continent, | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
but we've got a front trying to push in off the Atlantic | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
and that will make some headway | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
into the far south-west of England, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
maybe the far south-west of Wales, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:39 | |
so some patchy rain here eventually. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
Most other places will be dry, | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
again, hopefully, | 0:01:43 | 0:01:44 | |
some sunshine will help the feel of things, | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
but still that chilly wind | 0:01:46 | 0:01:47 | |
across the more northern and eastern areas. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
Now, by Wednesday, that front | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
will have staggered some way inland, | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
its exact position a little bit uncertain, | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
so don't take the positioning | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
of the rain too literally. | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
There will be some patchy rain around. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:00 | |
The winds won't be as strong | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
and they're starting to come up | 0:02:02 | 0:02:03 | |
from the south or even the south-west again, | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
a milder direction, in fact, | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
by Wednesday, many of us | 0:02:07 | 0:02:08 | |
will be in double figures. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
By Thursday, it looks as if | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
most of the action, most of any wind | 0:02:12 | 0:02:13 | |
and rain will be across | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
the far north of Scotland. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:16 | |
For the rest of us, much lighter winds | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
and again it'll feel pretty pleasant | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
with temperatures widely up | 0:02:20 | 0:02:21 | |
into double figures once more. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
Here's the big picture then, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:24 | |
with that front stranded across the north, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
it's tied in with an area | 0:02:26 | 0:02:27 | |
of low pressure out in the Atlantic | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
which is trying to come in | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
on a somewhat re-invigorated jet stream. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
The jet stream has been pretty limp through this winter. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
It's been deflected away from our shores which | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
has meant that much of the winter has been on the dry side. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
But the jet, for a time at least, later on in the week, | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
will be reinvigorated as it oscillates its way towards us. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
How long will that last? | 0:02:48 | 0:02:49 | |
How long will the more unsettled spell continued? | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
Well, some clues perhaps lie down in the tropics. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
There's known to be a link between pulses of energy in the atmosphere, | 0:02:55 | 0:03:00 | |
which move the way west to east across the tropics | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
and the behaviour of our jet stream closer to home and it does look | 0:03:03 | 0:03:07 | |
as if one such pulse of energy across the tropics | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
is actually likely to stop the jet stream from livening up again. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
It looks as if that jet could well be blocked once more, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
so any wetter spells could be quite brief | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
and a predominantly dry theme | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
continues into the latter part of this month. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
I'll give you more details | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
on that tomorrow. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:29 |