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Hello. For several weeks the weather talk was | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
all about high pressure, keeping it dry if you're lucky, | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
some sunshine, and some warmth. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:07 | |
In fact if you go back a week to last Monday | 0:00:07 | 0:00:11 | |
this is how it looked in Northern Ireland. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:12 | |
Plenty of blue sky. Temperature reaching 20 Celsius. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:16 | |
Fast forward seven days, and this | 0:00:16 | 0:00:17 | |
Monday was a completely different affair. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
Yes, it brightened up at the end of the day but it was cloudy and | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
wet for a large part of it and in fact Murlough in County Down | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
received 29 millimetres of rain. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
Some spots receiving more rain in May | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
so far than in the whole of April. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
They are soaking in Threave in Dumfries and Galloway, | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
there's Murlough for you, and Capel Curig, a very wet Monday. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
Not so much rain in south-east England. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
That could well change at the end of Wednesday as we'll see in a moment. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
And high pressure is no longer on the scene. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
It is across a large part of continental Europe. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
Not for us though. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:49 | |
We are under the influence of low pressure. That means weather | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
fronts and more rain to come for many us during Tuesday. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
It will be a dry start for much of Scotland and Northern Ireland | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
but some outbreaks of rain from west to east during the day. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
The sunshine coming out again afterwards. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
This weather system for Northern England, Wales, | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
the south-west, edges into the Midlands, | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
moving very slowly, grinding | 0:01:06 | 0:01:07 | |
to a halt, leaving much of East Anglia and south-east England dry. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
The warmest weather here with some sunny breaks, very muggy too, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
but by the end of the day it'll feel fresher in Scotland and | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
Northern Ireland once the sun appears behind the rain. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
But under clear skies here on Tuesday night it will be | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
a chillier night. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:23 | |
On Wednesday, sunshine, scattered showers, but for England and | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
Wales, look how this weather system comes back to life, | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
an expanding area of quite heavy rain pushing its way | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
northwards and then sweeping through East Anglia and south-east | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
England on Wednesday evening with the potential for some heavy, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
thundery rain that could be disruptive. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
So it's certainly a weather system to keep an eye on. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
Now going into Thursday that does pull away but it is still low | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
pressure in control. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:48 | |
We've changed the wind direction now. The wind is lighter, but it's | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
coming not from this mild, muggy south-westerly | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
but more of west-north-westerly going into Thursday. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
That's pulling this cooler, fresher air across the UK. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
So things start to feel a little bit different. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
But as I mentioned it is still low pressure. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
That means although you may start | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
dry and sunny on Thursday, clouds build | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
and there will be showers breaking out and some of those | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
could be heavy. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
It's a similar picture on Friday. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
It could be quite a chilly start on Friday. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
And then we get the clouds building. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
Then the showers could be more widespread on Friday. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
Heavy, possibly thundery, hail, slow moving, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
with very light winds. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:24 | |
This showery weather pattern continues into the weekend | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
because you can see low pressure is still very much in control of | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
things going from Friday into Saturday. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
Fairly light winds around, catch a shower, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
could hang around for a while. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:37 | |
On Saturday there is the potential for some showers merging to | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
give some longer spells of rain in places. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
Notice how the temperatures have come down so it's a cooler, | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
fresher feel to things but still quite pleasant in the sunshine | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
in between the showers. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:50 | |
As we look a bit further ahead going into next week there is | 0:02:50 | 0:02:54 | |
a battle going on. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:55 | |
If you watched the last Weather for the Week Ahead the indication was | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
that high-pressure would move in next week and settle things down | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
but it looks like low pressure is very reluctant to give up the game | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
and it is going to hang around, | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
so this pattern of sunshine and showers could | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
continue for much of next week. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
So the best thinking at the moment is that at least the first | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
half of the week will be showery, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:14 | |
then high pressure will start to build in from the Atlantic, | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
drying things little bit, settling things a little bit | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
by the end of the week but there is still | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
a lot to play for in terms of timing. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
Until then more rain in the forecast. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
Let's face it, it's been a while. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 |