28/03/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there, some rain for all of us later on this week, but, you know,

we really can't complain. Time perhaps for a reality check,

let's head down under,

where Severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie is making landfall on

the Queensland coast, bringing violent winds and flooding rains.

And although it will no longer be a cyclone as it heads in the

direction of Brisbane, it's going to bring some major impacts,

all that rainfall has got to go somewhere.

We'll keep an eye on Debbie over the next few days.

Closer to home, we've got our own game-changer,

a huge area of low pressure dominating the Atlantic.

Nothing as extreme as Debbie,

but just watch how it ambles its way across the Atlantic in our

direction and in fact, come the start of the weekend,

it will be slap bang on top of us.

No major impacts, but, yes,

there will be some rain around by then.

At the moment, it's dry out there just about everywhere,

some showers getting into parts of Wales and

western England in the morning,

the odd one reaching further east but the main oomph will be pushing

up through Northern Ireland into south-west Scotland.

A lot more cloud across Scotland than we've seen recently,

and so it will be cooler.

But further south, in any sunshine, I think it will feel pleasantly

warm, mid to high teens with fairly light winds.

As we head into the evening,

another front pushes into western areas,

some damp, dreary weather overnight followed by yet another one,

bringing some heavier rain to many northern and western areas through

Wednesday, on a strengthening wind.

Whereas further south and east,

despite a lot of cloud on Wednesday, it will stay

mostly dry and pretty mild again, mid teens quite widely.

Though it will be cooler along that eastern Scottish coast.

And over the following few days, we'll see further fronts coming

in, as that area of low pressure I mentioned begins to arrive.

But the focus of the rain for the time being,

will be across the more northern and western areas.

At the same time, we start to drag in some pretty warm air

from the near Continent, just watch how the map turns increasingly

orange across parts of East Anglia and the south-east and that

is indicative of temperatures nudging 20 degrees here in

the sunshine, whereas further north and west with more cloud,

more rain, more breeze, it won't be anything like as warm.

We end the week with a cold front pushing that warm air away,

so a fresher feel for all of us, and circulating around that area

of low pressure we will see some showers.

Difficult to get the detail right at this range,

but expect a rather showery end to the week,

quite blustery winds. There will be some sunshine but we'll have

lost the high teens, low to mid teens at this stage.

And we start the weekend on a showery note,

as that low pressure sits on top of us,

some more prolonged rain in some places, and it will be cooler

by then as well, so low teens probably typical, 12 or 13 at best.

So we are under that area of low pressure which, as you recall,

has travelled all the way across the Atlantic to arrive on top

of us just in time for the weekend.

And that low pressure is formed in a dip in the jet stream.

The jet stream is to the south of us at this stage,

we are on the cool side of things.

But it does look as if, as we head into next week,

the jet stream is going to start to shift its way back

northwards again, although there might be some rain across the far

north-west, with most of us clear of the jet,

and on the southern side of it, things look like warming up again.

So some changes once more as we head into next week,

it does look as if that after that rather showery start to the

weekend as the jet heads north,

it will turn drier again from the south and it will begin to

warm up again.

So, some changes ahead and I'll update you again,

once more, tomorrow. Goodnight.