13/05/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. We started the week on a dry note with a good deal of sunshine

but we ended the week with a good deal of cloud and some

outbreaks of rain. But it is very welcome rain,

particularly for the gardeners and the growers.

Here's the satellite and radar sequence from Friday.

A lot of cloud swirling around an area of low pressure

and a little bit of sunshine to be had.

It's drifting its way northwards and so there's

going to be some rain to be had across Scotland,

northwest of England, parts of Ireland

into Saturday afternoon,

but reasonable weather the further south and east you go.

The eastern side of Scotland will be quite grey

but largely dry. Western and southern parts will see

some cloud and outbreaks of rain.

There will be a bit of rain at times

in Northern Ireland. But across the bulk

of England and Wales, a scattering of showers

but a lot of dry and quite bright weather.

Showers are few and far between across

the southeast and here it'll be bright and breezy,

some sunshine, 19 or 20 degrees certainly possible.

The winds will be picking up towards the south

and west into the afternoon as this weather front arrives.

That'll be bringing some rain which will spread

its way from west to east across all parts

Saturday night into Sunday.

Shouldn't last too long in any given location

but it is going to bring some welcome rain with it.

And there's some fresher air coming in behind that

and we start Sunday with temperatures around

10 or 11 degrees.

Now, you might start off a bit wet for some early risers

along the east coast of Scotland and eastern England but it

shouldn't take too long for that rain to clear out

into the North Sea, and then we've got this

temporary ridge of higher pressure and with that

we're starting on a decent note for many places

with sunshine. With the breeze coming in from

the southwest we will see the cloud building

and there'll be a scattering of showers developing

into the afternoon and some showers in the northwest.

I think there'll be some lengthy dry spells in-between any

showers away from the northwest.

Temperatures round about 15 or 16 degrees,

probably peak at about 19 or 20

in the southeast once again.

Then we look out towards the west for this area

of low pressure to head our way for the start of the week.

Those isobars are tightening up,

so it's going to be quite windy on Monday

and there's going to be a fair bit of rain.

But it will be welcome rain for the gardeners and growers.

Any rain in the southeast should soon clear away and then

it'll stay pretty cloudy but quite warm.

Further north and west you've got the wind and rain

so that'll temper those temperatures but that rain

should clear away from Northern Ireland.

As we get into Tuesday, a trailing weather front to be

draped somewhere across the south of the UK.

The position is a bit uncertain at this stage.

At the moment it looks like it will be through the Midlands,

parts of Wales and the southwest and maybe for a time

in the southeast. But if it clears away and we get that

southerly breeze it could get quite warm in that

south-eastern corner.

Further north and west it's bright and breezy with maybe

a few showers coming in on the breeze.

As we head towards Wednesday,

we've got low pressure to the north

of the UK and high pressure to the west.

This trailing weather front is going to bring some cloud

and rain to the southern half of the UK.

Probably that rain easing away as we get on into

the afternoon but still some showers

towards the far north and west.

Looking ahead towards the latter part of next week,

looks like that low to the north of us will drift away towards

Scandinavia, allowing that high to the west of us to come in,

getting closer and closer to the UK.

But the resulting winds are northerly and that's going to

bring some much cooler air with it and the closer you are to the

low pressure system up and down that eastern coast,

you are more likely to see some rain.

And that setup looks like it'll last into the following weekend,

so we are developing this east-west split.

It'll be cooler and there will be some rain around,

most of that will be in the eastern side but closer to the high and west

it should be that bit drier.