12/04/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hi. Here in the UK

it's more likely to snow at Easter than at Christmas,

so what of this forthcoming Easter weekend?

Stay tuned, for the full forecast is coming up.

A little bit of wintriness, maybe, on Wednesday,

but it will be limited to the hills of northern Scotland.

We've got north-westerly winds developing across the country,

steady and surely, behind this weather front,

which brings rain initially - Northern Ireland, southern Scotland,

wet morning on the hills of north-west England.

And that rain and the weather front pushes its way erratically

and with less function into parts of Wales,

the Midlands and East Anglia later on.

To the south of it, bit more cloud than we've seen in the past few days

but temperatures still in the mid-teens. North of that,

it will feel a bit fresher,

but a brighter day for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

We could finish the day across the south

with one or two welcome showers -

probably not enough as many a garden requires at the moment,

so that weather front quickly clears as we go into Thursday,

leaving behind a colder air mass, clearer skies, light winds.

These are the city-centre temperatures.

In rural parts, one, two, three degrees certainly likely,

touch of frost. It's time to wrap up those tender plants once again.

But it's because we've got a ridge of high pressure to begin Thursday.

Not a bad day at all if you've got any plans.

Most places will be dry after that very fresh start.

We will see increased cloud towards the west through the day,

with one or two showers, particularly in Western Scotland,

but for the vast majority

it's another dry and actually fairly fine day.

So we go into the Easter weekend, then.

Good Friday, that area of high pressure to the south of us

rather than to the south-west,

and that does allow more flow off the Atlantic.

Weather fronts you can see on there, nothing substantial about them -

they will bring thicker cloud in at times

across the central swathe of the UK.

Chance of a few showers, but hit and miss -

not everyone will see rain.

Some of the south and east predominately dry again.

Still nice enough in the sunshine. Cool and breezy further north

with sunshine and just one or two showers.

To get us into Saturday,

well, weather front's clearing its way slowly across England and Wales.

Could start off cloudy. Fairly breezy day on Saturday,

especially the further north we go,

but that introduces sunshine and a few showers later.

Brightest conditions on Saturday further north,

the greatest chance of a few showers in the south,

but again, you could easily avoid them.

The best chance UK-wide of seeing some rain

will actually be later on Sunday

as this area of low pressure starts to push its way in.

Timing of that open to a bit of question at the moment.

Does look like a good part of the day will be dry and bright

towards the east before occasional rain pushes in.

That may be hit and miss in the south.

Further north, greater chance of some wetter weather,

particularly across parts of Western Scotland.

Temperature-wise, though, on Easter Day,

10 to 15 degrees, around what it should be at this time of year,

but notably it's going to be a good deal cooler

than it was on Christmas Day.

As for snow, well, mainly over the higher ground of the Grampians.

It will be a typical Easter Day for many.

To get us into Easter Monday, with a ridge of high pressure building,

we will start with again that risk of frost

as temperatures drop overnight,

but Easter Monday probably UK-wide the driest day,

with some sunshine for just about all.

And even though temperatures not as high as they were last week,

they'll certainly feel pleasant enough in that strong sunshine.

As for the rest of next week, if you're still on Easter break,

undulating jet stream to begin with with low pressure to the north-west

of the UK. That jet stream starts to push through a bit more

as we go through the week,

pushing the low pressure to the south and east of the UK,

and much like as we start Easter weekend,

high pressure to the west, we drag in our air from the north.

A fairly cool airflow once again,

so temperatures will be in the low to mid-teens at very best,

the risk of some rain here and there -

nothing too substantial in the south -

and just the risk of some snow, but only on the hills. Bye for now.

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