18/04/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead


18/04/2017

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The Easter weekend pretty much panned out as we expected it to

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on the weather front.

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Not a write-off, but certainly on the chilly side.

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Take a look at this.

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Some snow in the Shetland Islands, that's how cold the air has been.

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It's been coming in all the way from the northern climes

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but there has been some good weather around as well.

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Some nice cumulous clouds in Dorset.

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The week ahead will bring some frosty weather, especially

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the first couple of days, two or three days of this week.

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There will be plenty of sunny spells around during the day

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but the mornings will be on the nippy side.

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Certainly Tuesday will be cold first thing

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across the northern half of the UK.

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In the Glens of Scotland first thing on Tuesday,

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it could even be -8 degrees.

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But plenty of sunshine on offer.

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Tuesday looks absolutely fine across most of the UK.

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Beautiful weather in the south and the east, some strong sunshine.

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A bit on the cool side.

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Whereas the north-west of the UK,

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thicker cloud and we've also got some spots of rain.

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There is just a very weak weather front moving through into

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north-western areas during the course

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of Tuesday night into Wednesday.

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Let's have a look at the temperatures

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first thing on Wednesday. Actually this is Tuesday night.

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You can see around zero degrees across central parts

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of the UK and even down to -3 in the far south.

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The reason why it is not quite so frosty across Scotland is

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because we are seeing slightly less cold air coming in off the Atlantic.

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Here is Wednesday's weather forecast.

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High pressure in charge of the weather across

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southern parts of the UK.

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So that means this is where the best of the weather will be.

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The best of the sunshine, scattered fair-weather cloud.

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Whereas in the north, we have more cloud,

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maybe a few spots of rain and the temperatures not an awful lot

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of difference between the lowlands of Scotland

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and the far south of the UK.

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Around 11 or 12. London always that little bit warmer.

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And then into Thursday, that high pressure still sticks around

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across the south of the UK.

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So again little change here.

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Variable amount of cloud. You get the message, a lot of dry weather.

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You get a high pressure - lots of dry weather around.

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Most just thick cloud from time to time. 16 maybe the top temperature.

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Then we start to see a change on Friday.

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This line of rain here doesn't look like much on the forecast but

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this is a cold front and behind it we've got a surge of cold air.

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So the cold air towards the end of the week will be resurging.

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High pressure here, low pressure there.

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When you get the isobars scraping down

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that is where the air is coming from.

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This one is coming in from Iceland, from the Norwegian Sea.

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So, yet again, towards the end of the week,

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and into the weekend we are going to see that colder air returning.

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Single figure temperatures from Newcastle.

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Just about into double figures there across Yorkshire.

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Beyond that, the high pressure is still here,

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the low pressure is there

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the isobars are coming in from the north.

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This is the Arctic we are talking about.

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You can see a fetch from the far north so still chilly air.

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But a high pressure is close by.

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The jet stream is coming in from the north again

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so our air is coming from the north too.

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In this sort of situation, we don't often get an awful lot of rain.

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So, yes, it's going to be on the cool side

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but very little rain on the way.

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The rain that we do get may come from these little small areas

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of low pressure that may be riding around the high.

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But to get proper rainfall, if you are gardener,

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you need loads to come from here and whoosh across into the UK.

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We are not expecting that.

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High pressure will be generally dominating our weather.

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So it is going to stay on the cold side,

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there will be some frosty nights and, at times, particularly across

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northern areas, it might be a little on the windy side.

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That's it from me, thanks for watching.

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