19/05/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there. The weather has been turning more unsettled

over the past few days, bring many of us some much-needed rainfall.

It was a mixed picture on Thursday, certainly. For some parts

we had some glorious sunshine, a bit of cumulus cloud around too,

here was the scene in Derbyshire during Thursday afternoon.

Those cumulus clouds were bigger elsewhere and we did

see some heavy showers and some thunderstorms.

In Highland Scotland, for instance, also across parts of

Northern Ireland. But in the South East, this is the scene in

Pevensey Bay, East Sussex, we had more cloud,

more persistent rain that was rolling in during the

course of Thursday afternoon into the evening.

Now, overnight into Friday, that low pressure is moving its way

northwards up the east coast, so we're going to be seeing

outbreaks of rain continuing across parts of eastern England.

Elsewhere it is a quieter picture, so to start Friday,

some sunshine for much of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales

and western parts of England. After a fresh start there will be

some showers cropping up here. Now, further east across England,

low pressure moves its way north, so some patchy rain up the

east coast towards southeastern parts of Scotland too.

Quite cool, only 11 or 12 around those east coasts.

Further west, temperatures around 16 degrees or so.

So, low pressure not far away, then, as we start the weekend,

Friday night into Saturday we've still got some weather fronts

pretty close to the north-east of Scotland and one

moving into Western Scotland too. So a bit unsettled still across

northern parts, with some rain, particularly lingering

across the Northern Isles of Scotland for a time

on Saturday. Elsewhere across the country, it's a return to

sunshine and some scattered showers around too.

Some of those showers could be heavy, potentially some thunder

mixed in too but they're relatively hit and miss,

so 18 degrees in the sunshine will feel pleasant in between

any of those showers. But I think have that brolly on standby

for Saturday. Into Sunday, higher pressure moves in

from the south, so low pressure moving away

and that means during Sunday most of those showers get squeezed away.

Still a chance of the odd shower on Sunday, particularly across

western parts of the country but I think it, on reflection,

is going to be the better day of the weekend.

So, lots of places dry and temperatures round about

20 degrees or so. Still some slightly fresher air

holding on in the north but that fresher air gets squeezed away

late on Sunday and then as we head through into Monday.

So, for the new working week, we'll start to import some

slightly warmer air coming in from the south or the south-west

and that means temperatures will be on the rise on Monday.

Still a chance of getting some rain across north-western parts

of the country during Monday. For central and southeastern areas,

though, it's drier, it's brighter and we're likely to see

those temperatures back at around about 23 degrees.

Then as we head through into Tuesday, on towards the

middle part of the week, low pressure tending to

push away from the north-east of the UK,

higher pressure building in from the south-west.

So that's the scenario through the middle part of the week.

Most of those showers easing away as low pressure

starts to clear off towards the north-east.

Higher pressure moving in from the south-west,

so I think through the middle part of next week,

we should see a bit of a quieter spell of weather,

with high pressure starting to move in and take charge.

Some uncertainty, though, later next week about how long

this area of high pressure is going to be sticking around.

Low pressure once again waiting out in the wings in the Atlantic.

So that high pressure potentially not lasting all that long.

Later next week and into next weekend -

high pressure likely to move away, so once again we'll see

a turn to more unsettled conditions. There will be some

wind and some rain likely at times, equally a bit of sunshine

and temperatures generally near average, although they

could be chilly at times overnight, particularly in the middle part

this week. That's all for now, bye-bye.

The race is on to complete London's most ambitious railway.

I don't think we've seen anything to this scale and complexity before.

But with so much left to be done...

It gets the nerves going, the adrenaline pumping.

..will they finish in time?