08/04/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. We'll look at the Easter weather forecast in a moment.

One thing I can tell you straightaway is that

it won't be as warm as the weather we're seeing this weekend.

It really is warming up across many parts of the country,

even on Saturday, more sunshine across northern England,

Northern Ireland, up into Scotland, away from the far north of Scotland

and another lovely day across England and Wales.

After a chilly start, those temperatures will rise sharply,

probably peaking again towards the south-east, 20 or 21 or so,

but a warmer day for Northern England than it was on Friday,

so too across Northern Ireland and most of Scotland.

Now, during the evening and overnight with light winds,

no wind at all and clear skies, temperatures will fall away,

there will be one or two mist and fog patches,

and we start to cloud over in the north-west of Scotland

and much of Northern Ireland, but where we have the clearer skies

in the countryside it will be chilly -

perhaps not quite as cold, though, as early on Saturday morning.

Warmer air, clearer air is pushing its way on these southerly winds

but it's meeting this weather front here,

so a clash taking place on Sunday.

Apart from eastern Scotland, which doesn't look too bad

for most of the day, the rest of Scotland not as good,

so too Northern Ireland, clouding over,

this band of rain coming down on that weather front too,

but for England and Wales a lot of sunshine,

maybe a bit more cloud filling in our across the Irish Sea,

so where we have the cloud, 13 or 14 degrees,

but the temperatures are set to peak across eastern England,

23 north of London, up towards the East Midlands and Cambridgeshire.

This heat isn't going to last much longer, though.

This weather front bringing the rain in the north-west on Sunday

sweeps southwards, brings no rain at all, really,

but introduces a north-westerly wind, bringing in some colder air,

so for many of us Monday may well be dry,

we may well have rather cloudy skies like this,

it will feel colder,

certainly looks colder across Scotland, in northern Scotland,

where there may well be some wintry showers around as well

but many places will have a dry day,

but these are the maximum temperatures and for some parts

of England and Wales, they're some eight degrees lower than Sunday.

Now, that north-westerly, that cooler wind won't last into Tuesday

because it gets cut off, the colder air goes into Scandinavia.

Instead we get more of a westerly wind

around the top of that high pressure, which will blow in

more cloud across Northern Ireland, Northern England and Scotland.

Most of the rain will be in Scotland,

it could be quite wet in the north-west, but for England,

southern England, Midlands, Wales, it's going to be dry.

Still those temperatures no better than about 15 degrees or so

underneath that area of high pressure.

That high pressure is going to move a bit as we look into the outlook.

We could well find it shrinking to a certain extent

as that weather front sweeps southward on Wednesday.

A bit of rain on that, quite a few showers following in behind

but once again little or no rain for the south-east of England,

but it will feel quite chilly out there, temperatures 10 or 11 degrees

at best across some northern parts of the UK.

And that takes us into the outlook, then, where we've got the jet stream

to the north and diving down the eastern side

around that area of high pressure, quite an elongated high pressure,

basically the high looks like it's going to be sitting

into the Easter period towards the south-west,

and this is the general weather pattern we're expecting,

so around the high we'll have some north-westerly winds

and that will bring with it some sunshine and some showers,

particularly in the north and north-east.

The position of the high could move a bit further north across the UK

but it is going to be quite cool in those winds,

not a great deal of rain around once again

and closer to the high pressure in the south-west,

this is where we've got the sunshine.