28/05/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there. High pressure brought us some pretty impressive

temperatures early in the week, importing some warm air off the near

continent and sunshine up and down the country with temperatures

reaching close to 30 in one or two places but a thundery break down

into the weekend, some impressive thunderstorms around and flash

flooding around an area of low pressure moved up from the south.

That will continue going north as we head into Sunday. A brief ridge of

high pressure settling things down before we see these areas of low

pressure brings further thundery rain later on Sunday and into Monday

to many parts of the UK's. For Sunday to itself, many central areas

will see some sunshine and cloudy across Scotland and Northern

Ireland. Certainly cooler than of late, temperatures at best around

the mid to upper teens with a bit of light, patchy rain for the Northern

Isles. A bit of sunshine in southern Scotland and northern England, we

could see highs touching 2121. Pleasant through the Midlands but

further south, we'll see the next thundery plume coming from the south

bringing heavy rain and thunderstorms and temperatures here,

fairly warm around the low to mid 20s Celsius in the south-east.

Looking pretty wild during Sunday night as this thundery erase works

its way northwards into parts of southern Scotland, could see some

torrential downpours in places and we could have another warm and muggy

night in the south. Fresher in Northern Scotland. Bank holiday

Monday, a messy picture, lots of cloud around, thundery erase working

north and we could see a return to thunderstorms in the south-east

later in the day as temperatures again reach the mid- 20 Celsius. But

cooler and fresher north and west. Thursday onwards it will be quieter,

sunny spells and light winds, a touch fresher, a few showers around,

warming up, though, slightly later in the week. This area of low

pressure will bring a fresh feel to conditions on Tuesday. Fresh

westerly winds and a weather front spreading eastwards will introduce a

band of rain which will move through quite quickly. Again, 20-22 in the

south-east but much cooler and fresher further north and west with

temperatures near normal for the time of year. By the middle of the

week signs of high pressure building in again, the winds turning lighter,

a good deal of sunshine around and temperatures will rise as well,

especially for England and Wales were once again in the south and

south-east we could see between 23 and 26, but still cool in the north.

On Thursday, this area of low pressure tries to make inroads from

the west sending weather fronts across western parts of the UK,

breezy with more cloud in Northern Ireland, western Britain but

central, southern and eastern areas enjoying another fine day with

generally light winds and sunshine. Beyond that period, a bit of

uncertainty, it looks like we are in between weather systems of light

winds, this rain band could be further west and further east but it

looks like as we head into the next weekend, high pressure establishes

itself again over the near continent with low pressure systems moving in

across the north-west corner of the UK to bring spells of rain and wind.

Turning more unsettled towards next weekend with some rain at times,

mainly across the north and west From acclaimed writer

Jimmy McGovern...