11/04/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. If it's your first holiday of the year, I suppose the

weather for the rest of the weekend into Easter is very important.

First things first, forget that 25 Celsius we saw at the weekend,

weather is back to normal.

That means westerly or north-westerly winds dominating,

certainly north-westerly winds as we head towards Easter weekend.

To start with, a quick look out for what we can expect temperature wise.

Not 25.

These sort of values closer to where we should be for this time of year.

But the sun is going to get a bit stronger and where you get it, you

will see it this Easter weekend, it will still feel warm enough.

More details coming up, but, first, back to the here and now.

Tuesday, high pressure across the south.

Low-pressure becoming dominant in the north.

And that means we've got a day rain at times,

particularly on the hills of the Western Highlands, into the

Hebrides, up in Shetland, a pretty soggy day and a windy day here.

Maybe the odd spot of rain and wind in other parts of Scotland,

Northern Ireland but, generally, a dry day, lots of high cloud.

A good deal of sunshine the further south you go,

here the warmest conditions with the lightest of the breeze.

Again, 16 Celsius possible, just like we saw on Monday,

and that will feel very nice.

But, as we go into the night,

clear skies mean an initial drop in temperature.

But notice the rain from northern Scotland starts to make

a push further south.

West of Scotland likely to see the rain, eastern Scotland not

see much, Northern Ireland by the end of the night and into

Wednesday morning, and north-west England getting soggier and soggier.

And not quite as cold as we start Wednesday as it

will have been to start Tuesday.

This is the set-up for Wednesday.

Low-pressure more dominant than high pressure by now.

North-westerly winds becoming more of a feature through the day,

and that will make it feel much, much cooler across the board.

Even in the south, the breeze will temper the feel.

Patchy rain and drizzle heading southwards across England and

Wales, still not much rain, though, across southern parts of England.

Sunshine and showers, Scotland and Northern Ireland,

and northern England.

North-westerly winds dominate into Thursday,

a brief ridge of high pressure pushes in.

A chilly start to Thursday.

That means we could see temperatures around two or three degrees

in some parts to begin with,

and then only around 10 to 14 through the afternoon.

Dry, sunny start, lasting longest the sunshine in the east,

clouding over from the north and west

with some occasional rain showers later on.

Which takes us into the start of your Easter weekend.

High pressure not quite close enough to begin with,

we've still got that run of westerly to north-westerly winds,

the weather front straggling across northern England and

North Wales at the moment.

But a slightly milder day compared with Thursday, at least.

Some sunshine here and there,

Scotland, Northern Ireland, one or two showers,

and a bit of sunshine to start the Easter weekend in the far south.

But as we head into Saturday, as that one weak weather front

clears from the south, still not much rain across the south.

Low pressure dominates.

So, Saturday probably the greatest chance of seeing showers

through the Easter weekend.

Wind is going more and more northwesterly, so it will feel cool.

Cluster area of low pressure in the east where we are

most likely to see showers, but even here, sunshine at times, and

across southern and western areas, few showers, a lot of dry weather.

So it takes us into that Easter weekend with this sort of set-up.

The jet stream running right down across the UK,

almost splitting us in two.

High pressure to the west, low pressure to the east,

low pressure always an area where we see showers close by,

so it's eastern areas that are most prone to seeing such showers.

But anywhere could see the odd shower through the weekend.

But do not write off this Easter weekend.

Yes, it will feel cooler than last weekend, but there will still

be a lot of this - a lot of dry weather, some sunshine at times.

Don't forget that sun is getting stronger by the day,

so once you're in the sunshine, it will feel pleasant enough.

As we finish Easter and go into the start of next week,

it looks like high becomes established to the south,

keeping things dry here. The question next, though,

is where this low-pressure system in the north-west goes.

Will it push down across us or just scoot across the north?

That, we'll keep you updated on over the next few days.