24/02/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Well, the winds certainly blew a few cobwebs away

and a few trees as well.

Is the weather settling down in the wake of Storm Doris?

Kind of - not completely.

There's still a lot of cloud and some wind out there in the Atlantic

and it is heading our way but the worst of this weather,

Doris, is out of the picture - goodbye, good riddance -

remnants of it affecting more central parts

of Europe. Actually, we're going to see

a little spell of better weather for Friday.

This little high pressure here,

a bump in the pressure, is going

to knock on our door

and give us some sunshine,

but across these north-western areas,

once again the weather will go downhill

a little bit through the course of the day.

We're not expecting any stormy weather here,

but it will be windy

a little bit later on in the day,

especially around these coastal areas

and we are in for some rain

for places like Belfast and Glasgow,

but the vast majority of the country,

fine for you here.

Some sunshine and certainly quite crisp,

quite cold in the morning.

And then as we go through Friday night

into Saturday, you can see the winds

start picking up again from the south-west.

These are mild south-westerlies,

so these are the early morning

temperatures on Saturday.

Certainly frost around, 6, 7, 8, 9 degrees

and a fair bit of cloud and rain.

And again quite a few isobars here on Saturday.

Isobars equal wind so it is going to be

a blustery day but I think the main message

on Saturday is that the winds will be

strong around the coast and hills.

There'll be quite extensive cloud

across many western areas of the UK,

outbreaks of rain. In fact some of us,

particularly across the west and the north-west

are in for a good soaking, I think,

overall for the whole weekend.

But I think the further east

and south-east you are,

the drier the weather is going to be.

So this is Saturday night into Sunday,

one weather front clears away

and then we have another weather front coming in,

so you're starting to see this pattern again,

weather front after weather front.

This is the next one here,

bringing outbreaks of rain

to the north-west again.

Some soaking weather here

through the course of Saturday

but much, much better across eastern

and southern areas of the UK.

Then Sunday night into Monday, you guessed it,

one weather front clears away

and here's another one.

Again, we got quite a few isobars,

so it's going to be a little on the breezy side,

but it is going to be just that, I think,

just windy round coasts,

not necessarily inland.

And temperatures probably cooling off

a little bit as we head through Monday,

so a mild weekend but then come Monday,

the temperatures will dip away.

We'll stay start to see air

coming in from the north,

so I think for Monday and Tuesday

and possibly into Wednesday,

it is going to be cold

and that really is the theme for the week ahead.

Fairly unsettled, changeable, some rain,

some sunshine, but temperatures will be

on the cool side and then we get to the middle part of the week

to Wednesday 1st March,

the start of meteorological spring,

not the spring equinox, that's on 20th March,

but us meteorologists like whole months. We like to start on the 1st.

So early March, the jet stream is pretty active,

it's sort of lassoing around, it's rippling and whenever we see that

that spells unsettled weather and quite cold weather, I think.

So at times there'll be some frosts in the morning,

we might even see a little bit of wintriness across the hills,

but there'll be some sunshine around as well,

so I think a chilly start to March, fairly unsettled,

spells of rain for sure at times and a touch of frost on the way.

But in the short term, no storms in the forecast,

at least not for now.

Thanks for watching.