06/03/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. Time we updated you on our thoughts about what's to come

in the forthcoming week and then we'll push our luck

a little bit and give you a sense of what's going to go on through

the course of next weekend and beyond.

Don't despair at the start of this week if it's particularly wet

with you across the south-western quarter of the British Isles

in the first part of the day.

Once we get on towards lunchtime and early afternoon,

much of that rain will have faded away and been replaced by

showers and there will be generally a mix of sunny spells

and showers quite widely.

Although the rain will return to Northern Ireland just in time

for the school run and the commute.

Now, once Monday is out of the way, the rest of the week falls

into something of a pattern where we have rain at times.

It'll be breezy and with that wind coming from the west and

the south-west for the most part, it will be on the mild side.

We establish that pattern as early as Tuesday.

It may not seem that way first up because the skies may have cleared

overnight and it will be a chilly start to the new day on Tuesday.

A lot of dry, bright, fine weather around.

But those weather fronts from the Atlantic make their presence

felt across western parts initially.

The further east you are, the drier your day will be.

But eventually,

that weather front will come to tumble its way ever further

towards the east and south bringing some pretty wet spells of weather.

Whilst you're sandwiched between the warm front and the cold front,

really murky affair with the cloud sitting very low in the atmosphere.

Come Wednesday,

low pressure close by to Scotland will keep it very blustery

and breezy throughout the day across Scotland, Northern Ireland,

the north of England. Plenty of showers here.

Somewhat drier across the Midlands and the north of Wales.

That weather front doesn't actually, we think, get right away from

the southern counties of both England and Wales during the day.

It's mild at 13 or 14,

but I don't think you'll want to stand around in it.

Then just when you thought you'd seen the last of it,

it returns as a warm front bringing mild airs from the Atlantic,

but the cloud sitting, again, very low in the atmosphere.

A lot of hill fog, damp moving up from the south-west

to Wales and on towards Northern Ireland through the day.

The best of any brightness to the east of the Pennines and up

in that north-eastern corner of Scotland.

Again, because the wind is coming from the south-west,

top temperature on the day could be around 14, possibly even 15 degrees.

From Thursday into Friday, we still have that run of mild,

south-westerlies.

Detail at this stage is difficult to pin down,

but we think that the low pressure will still be pretty dominant

and one of the scenarios for the weekend is to keep the low

pressure, or something very like it, very close by to

the north-western quarter of the British Isles.

You can well imagine having seen

the week thus far, if you are

anywhere close by that low pressure,

then it is going to be unsettled.

There'll be spells of rain. The wind will be quite noticeable at times.

Further south, there isn't a vacuum, we'll just build in

relatively higher pressure there trying to settle things down

across the southern parts of the British Isles.

So the wet and windy fare towards the north-west.

Further south, it could be somewhat drier, brighter,

perhaps a tad warmer as well.

That's one of the scenarios.

The other scenario that we have on our minds at the moment, is to

bring a low pressure across the northern parts of the British Isles,

park it over Denmark, build a high pressure out towards the west.

That then funnels northerlies and north-easterlies down

and across the British Isles so that could push some showers into

the north of Scotland.

Whatever scenario, we'll keep it fairly wet there.

Breezy at times too, but I think the average temperature will

prevail for most of us for a good part of the week.

Bye-bye.