16/04/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello, there. If you were looking for drama from the weather,

well, it's been a bit lacking this weekend so far.

Things have been fairly quiet and I have to say

there's nothing much more dramatic on the horizon

through the week ahead.

A lot of dry weather and some sunny spells but,

bear in mind, at night

things will turn very cold and very frosty.

But back to the here and now through Easter Day,

we are going to see this wiggling weather front

causing one or two weather headaches.

A zone of cloud and outbreaks of rain

moving across central areas of the UK.

Bit of uncertainty about just how far north

or just how far south that wet weather will be.

And to the north of that, if you're off for

a lunchtime stroll across the northern half of Scotland,

actually a decent afternoon with some sunshine

and just a few showers.

But through Northern Ireland,

down into northern England, north Wales and the Midlands,

we're likely to have some outbreaks of rain,

maybe even some snow mixed in

over the highest ground of the Pennines

and temperatures really struggling.

Seven Celsius there in Hull.

Down towards the far south-west,

well, here should avoid most of the wet weather

and it will be that bit milder as well.

And as we head towards the end of the day,

we'll see that rain clearing away to the south-east

to leave a pretty chilly night, actually.

It will be quite a cold start to Easter Monday,

particularly where we have some clear spells.

Towns and cities, 3 to 9 Celsius.

But out in the countryside,

a frosty night in prospect.

So, Easter Monday starts off like this,

high pressure to the west, low pressure to the east,

that gives us a northerly wind.

The wind not desperately strong in most places,

although it will be quite breezy up towards the north-east.

But what that northerly wind will do

is bring cold air a long way south

across the country.

A very, very chilly feel to the weather

on Easter Monday.

There'll be some spells of sunshine,

there will also be some showers.

Some of those showers even wintry over high ground,

especially in the north.

7 Celsius the best we can expect in Aberdeen,

maybe 14 in London.

Now, as we go through Monday night and into Tuesday,

our area of high pressure topples its way southwards,

building in across the British Isles.

Now, on its southern and eastern flank,

here we'll have some fairly strong winds.

It will feel chilly towards the south-east.

One or two showers here as well.

Just 9 Celsius in Norwich.

But actually, generally speaking,

Tuesday is a largely dry day.

Tuesday night, another cold one

underneath our area of high pressure.

But with the high pressure centred right across the heart

of the British Isles at this stage,

we're going to cut-off our chilly north

or north-easterly wind.

Instead, we see more of a westerly wind across many areas.

So that will start to lift the temperatures a little bit

and where you're exposed to that westerly wind,

there could be some outbreaks of rain for Western Scotland.

Similar sort of day on Thursday,

some outbreaks of patchy rain to the north-west,

a lot of dry weather, some sunshine

but those temperatures at or even a little above

where they should be for the time of year.

Now, for the end of the week,

our high pressure is still with us

but at this stage it drifts south-westwards again

and we start to switch the winds round

to more of a northerly direction.

That'll bring something a little bit cooler again.

Now, of course, our weather driven by the jet stream

and as we go into next weekend,

the jet stream is going to be sitting

to the north of the British Isles

and that will be spinning up areas of low pressure

which are likely to run across some northern and eastern areas.

So that's where we're likely to see

some of the unsettled weather,

as well as some fairly cool weather.

Further south and west, high pressure holding on

so a lot of dry weather here.

And actually, generally speaking,

there will be a lot of dry weather

through next weekend, some sunny spells.

The wettest of the weather towards the north-east

and it will be chilly, particularly in the north.

Winds, though, will be mainly light.

That's all from me for now.