30/05/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello, there. We saw a gradual cooling down process

during the bank holiday weekend

with a series of heavy showers and thunderstorms.

During Sunday night, we saw some spectacular thunderstorms

across the far south-east of England

as violent storms developed across northern France.

All these Weather Watcher pictures came from Sussex and Kent.

It left a pretty dreary day for bank holiday Monday,

outbreaks of rain, grey skies for most.

But there were a few holes in that cloud to allow some brief

spells of sunshine, like this photograph from Westerham in Kent.

Now, that weather front bringing all the dreary weather on bank holiday

Monday moves off into the continent and then we look to the west at this

next weather front moving in off the Atlantic for Tuesday.

Many places starting off dry, a little bit of sunshine around,

one or two showers.

This weather front will move across Northern Ireland quite quickly

through the morning, skies brightening up, here.

Eventually, clearing Northern Ireland and into Scotland.

But as it pushes into England and Wales,

it will leave a legacy of cloud as it begins to fizzle out.

So a few showers through central areas.

Again, quite warm in the south-east given some sunshine,

plenty of sunshine across Scotland and Northern Ireland,

just one or two showers.

Bit of a windy end to the day as that area of low pressure moves

away, and then looking to the south,

this area of high pressure builds in during the middle part of the week.

So, actually, a fine middle part of the week,

Wednesday and Thursday, for many, mainly dry.

Some good spells of sunshine and turning warmer as well.

So this is the picture for Wednesday.

As you can see, under the influence of high pressure, light winds,

good sunny spells across the UK and turning quite warm once again,

temperatures 19 to maybe 23 or 24 degrees in the south-east.

High pressure still with us on into Thursday.

But we are looking at this area of low pressure which is slowly

making inroads and the weather front will eventually reach

Northern Ireland and Western Scotland later in the day.

But it will be a slow process,

it looks like Thursday for most will be another fine, dry one,

southerly winds so even warmer across central, southern and eastern

areas, we could be looking at mid-20s Celsius but gradually

turning wet and windy for Northern Ireland and for Scotland.

This weather feature, a bit of a complex feature,

continues to make inroads through the course of Friday

but it will be bumping into some pretty warm and humid air

across southern and eastern areas,

so it is possible some of this rain could pep up to be quite heavy,

maybe thundery through central,

southern and eastern areas as it moves ever eastwards during Friday.

Now, it clears away during the course of Saturday,

and what we will see is a run of westerly winds again with an

area of high pressure starting to build across the south.

So I think Saturday is looking a bit better, brighter,

we should see some good spells of sunshine, quite breezy, though.

Again, a fairly fresh feel to things

across northern and western areas.

Warm across the south-east.

As we head through the weekend,

this area of high pressure becomes established across the continent and

that will attract weather systems to the north and west of the UK.

It is possible on Sunday,

we could see a spell of wet and windy weather for a time,

but early next week, we think this is the set-up that will remain for

the first few days, where we will

see high-pressure within the continent

steering areas of low pressure to the north and west of the UK.

So we will have a north-west/south-east split

with spells of wind and rain across Scotland

and Northern Ireland, also temperatures a little bit cooler

than they should be for the time of year,

but further south and east,

closer to that area of high pressure, it should be largely dry

with some good spells of sunshine

and it will feel quite warm at times too.