10/03/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. We had some glorious spring sunshine around on Thursday,

temperatures as high as 17.5 degrees in London.

Things aren't changing in a hurry, at least over the next 24 hours,

because we've still got a big area of high pressure in charge

sitting out towards the south-east.

Low pressure in the North Atlantic trying to move in,

so we will see weather fronts starting to influence

parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland,

bringing an increasing breeze,

some cloud, and later on, some outbreaks of rain, too.

But many eastern areas will keep with the sunny conditions

through much of the day.

The cloud in the west on Friday moves its way slowly eastwards

and there'll be a bit of drizzly rain

across parts of north-west England, Western Scotland,

perhaps Northern Ireland, particularly around the coasts,

and over the hills too.

Elsewhere, that cloud should break up a little bit through the day.

Temperatures certainly not as warm as Thursday - 7 to 13 degrees.

Through Friday night and on into Saturday

we'll see this cold font moving in from the north-west,

so some rain around Northern Ireland and for Scotland overnight.

England and Wales staying largely dry.

Quite a lot of low cloud, mist and murk,

and certainly mild first thing Saturday morning.

So what about the weekend? Well, for Saturday, actually,

not a bad day at all. Most places are looking largely dry,

and there will be a bit of sunshine breaking through for many of us.

Sunday, bit of a change - we'll start to see rain clearing eastwards

and things will feel a little bit cooler too.

So to put some detail on that, this is Saturday.

We've got a slow-moving front bringing a bit of rain

to parts of northern England, into Wales too.

To the south and east of that, mostly cloudy,

but there will be some sunshine later on.

15, possibly 17 degrees. Scotland and Northern Ireland

also seeing quite a good deal of dry, bright weather on Saturday.

Heading into Sunday, then, this front...

This frontal system approaches from the Atlantic,

and eventually that's going to introduce some cooler air

heading in from the west too. So through the day on Sunday,

we're likely to see some outbreaks of rain,

gradually clearing eastwards through the day.

A return to sunshine and a few blustery showers.

Not a write-off, there will be some dry weather around,

but it will feel cooler, with temperatures around 9 to 13 degrees.

On to Monday - once that front clears away toward the east,

could stay cloudy across East Anglia and the south-east for a time,

but a ridge of high pressure in charge,

so most places looking dry,

and there'll be some decent spells of sunshine.

With light winds, it'll feel pleasant,

with most of us seeing temperatures of around 11 to 13 degrees.

So that situation doesn't change too much.

On to the middle part of the week.

High pressure never really far away -

again, we will see these low pressure systems

trying to move in from the Atlantic

but bumping into that area of high pressure.

So that is the main theme, really,

as we head through much of the week ahead. To start next week,

we've got high pressure in charge, and that's really

closing this barrier to the Atlantic low-pressure systems,

bringing their cloud and rain towards maybe northern

and western parts of the UK.

Through the middle of the week, the barrier dips down towards the south

as high pressure clears towards the south. That will allow

low pressure to move across more northerly parts of the UK,

but later in the week, the high pressure builds in again,

closing that barrier and keeping most of the low-pressure systems,

with their cloud and rain, again out in the Atlantic.

Some uncertainty - we could see

wet weather systems moving across

northern and north-western parts of the country.

But generally as we head towards the end of next week,

with that high pressure building again,

things will become drier, there'll be some sunshine on offer,

but things could be windy, and at times also quite wet and unsettled

across north-western parts of the UK.

Best of the dry and bright weather towards the south and east.

That's it for now - I'll update you again tomorrow.