31/03/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. It looks like the next few days will be a bit cooler,

which isn't surprising given that February

was the warmest March day since 2012.

We've got some spring warmth coming up on those southerly winds

together with some sunshine.

Not everywhere.

The sunniest weather was in the south-east

where temperatures hit 22 degrees.

It was considerably warmer than recently

in north-east Scotland

again thanks to the southerly winds.

Not just warmth with those winds, though -

rain too.

And there's still some rain

out towards the west on Friday

quickly clearing south-west England

and Wales,

Northern Ireland by the afternoon,

and moving up into Scotland.

Elsewhere, cheering up with some sunshine

and just one or two showers.

A considerably cooler day

for the north and north-east of Scotland

on Friday with that rain becoming

heavier and more persistent.

Lighter, patchy rain

arriving in southern Scotland.

Maybe a window of sunshine

for Northern Ireland before showers gang up

later in the day.

They're just waiting in the wings.

But for most of England and Wales,

the afternoon should be dry

with some sunshine around.

Yes, it's fresher air,

but with a temperature of 15-17 degrees.

It should feel really quite nice.

Heading into the weekend, though,

the first day of a new month brings some April showers,

then it turns chilly overnight as skies clear,

allowing drier, finer weather for the second half of the weekend.

Having said that,

East Anglia, the south-east of England,

may miss most if not all

of the showers on Saturday.

Plenty of showers elsewhere.

Not much wind to move them about.

They'll be quite slow moving.

They could be heavy,

possibly with hail and thunder.

Temperatures will be lower. 12 or 13 typically.

If we miss the showers in the south-east, though,

temperatures will be

a little bit higher here.

The showers that do form will decay

during the evening

and they get squeezed away

by this building high pressure

from the south

that will keep these weather fronts

at bay for the time being.

For the second half of the weekend, for many of us,

it will be a better day.

Probably a cold start,

but there'll be a lot of sunshine

in the morning

before we see cloud spreading out

in the afternoon,

but temperatures could still be as high

as 17 degrees.

They may get even higher than that

on Monday as a southerly wind develops again.

It depends how much sunshine we get

for central and eastern England.

Again, most places will have a dry day.

Quite warm when the sun is out.

Wind and rain arriving in the north-west later on.

That rain looks like it's a bit delayed.

These weather fronts bumping into each other

will eventually clamber down

across the UK on Tuesday,

but weakening all the while

as they run into high pressure.

Again, the south-east of the UK

missing most of the rain.

Even further north, the rain becomes light,

patchy, showery

as cooler air comes down

in those west to north-westerly winds.

Things change next week.

Let's look at the other side

of the Atlantic.

Strengthening jet

is going to be developing areas of low pressure off Newfoundland,

and it buckles the jet stream

in this sort of angle here.

We could be stuck under low pressure,

but, given this sort of orientation of the jet,

we're going to be sitting

under high pressure,

and that's building across the UK

as we head into the middle part

of the week, settling things down

once again.

Initially on the cooler side,

but as the high pressure builds

we'll see things warming up again.

Across the far north of the UK,

we could have stronger winds

and we'll get milder Atlantic air

but probably some cloud.

Away from here,

a lot of dry weather

well into next week,

possibly into the weekend too.

A bit chilly in the mornings,

maybe some mist and fog,

but otherwise dry and bright

with some sunshine.

Again, with light winds, it'll be warm in the sunshine.

Goodbye.