06/04/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello, there. At one point in the Weather For The Week Ahead

we're going to go from summer warmth to some late winter snow.

Before we get there, things are fairly quiet.

Not particularly straightforward,

because there's a lot of cloud in the forecast

through Thursday, but how thin it's going to be

and how many breaks, that's difficult to judge.

The breaks are more likely

with some sunshine across eastern Scotland

and northeast England.

Where the wind is a bit stronger,

just across Scotland,

it will bring differences in Scotland.

Western Scotland could be cloudy and a little damp.

Otherwise, I think it'll be

a dry day on Thursday.

For most of us, again it will stay dry overnight.

Where the cloud breaks arrive -

possibly in parts of Wales,

the West Midlands,

maybe into the southwest of England,

again, eastern Scotland, northeast England -

will turn chilly.

2-4 degrees or so, but otherwise,

under the cloud, about 7 Celsius.

Friday is pretty much deja vu.

The best of the sunshine more likely in eastern Scotland,

northeast England,

quite a lot of cloud around elsewhere.

It's quite thin, so it'll be bright at times.

Again with those winds coming in from the Atlantic,

there may be a little light rain or drizzle

across the northwest of Scotland.

Those are the temperatures,

again possibly up to 13 or 14 degrees.

Quiet, because high pressure is sitting

right over the UK.

But things will change as we head into the weekend.

We're going to find the high pressure migrating

into central Europe. As it does so,

these weather fronts approach

the northwest of the UK,

but will also draw up more of a southerly wind

that will blow in some warmth,

particularly if we get the sunshine.

That is more likely across England and Wales.

This is Saturday.

Already it's become brighter,

there's a bit more sunshine around.

We haven't really got the warm air yet,

but temperatures will be a bit higher

for many parts of the country.

Again, it should be fine and dry.

It's really as we head

into the second half of the weekend,

we've got much more sunshine across England and Wales,

but for Scotland and Northern Ireland,

more in the way of cloud here still.

Later on, this band of rain arriving

in the northwest of the UK.

So temperatures aren't going to rise that much

for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

It's really across England and Wales

in the sunshine and those southerly breezes

that will see the numbers getting up

as high as 23 Celsius in the southeast of England.

A bit of summer warmth.

But then we lurch from that

into something much colder for Monday.

That weather front weakens

as it heads down across the UK,

but instead of a southerly wind,

we get more of a northerly wind,

so that means we're going to find

there'll be some sunshine around.

For many in the southern half of the UK, it'll be dry.

But further north, particularly in the north of Scotland,

there'll be some showers.

Here, the temperatures will be significantly lower,

so much so that over the mountains of Scotland,

we may well have a little bit more fresh snow.

But that cold air is going to be very short-lived.

It's really on Monday that we've got that northerly air flow

across the UK, but as we head into Tuesday,

the colder air gets shunted away

towards Scandinavia and things start to turn milder

as we get more of a westerly.

That sets us up for later on in the week,

approaching the Easter weekend, of course.

High pressure across the southern half of the UK,

stronger westerly winds,

Atlantic winds across the north.

With that, not only will we see the stronger wind,

but we could drive in some areas of low pressure close to Scotland,

threatening to bring something more changeable here.

We sort of sum it up north, south for the early part of Easter.

More likely to have cloud, perhaps some rain at times,

although there could be some drier and brighter spells

developing perhaps by Saturday across the north.

The boundary will shift a little bit, but generally speaking,

further south across the UK, early Easter looks like

we're back into high pressure, so it should be dry.

There'll be some sunshine, but, again,

no significant rain in the southeast.