03/06/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there. Friday afternoon and East Anglia

and the south-east was really quite warm air and humid

and it sparked off some thunderstorms,

those clearing away into the near continent overnight.

Then we're looking out to the Atlantic,

that's where our weather will be coming from the next few days.

That Atlantic airstream will eventually bring that fresher air

in to all parts of the UK.

Through the weekend there should be some good opportunities for

getting out and about with some good spells of sunshine,

but also some showers in the forecast.

But make the most of the drier spells through the weekend

because Monday looks like it'll be turning pretty wet and pretty windy.

Any early showers in the north-east of England clear out

into the North Sea, then it brightens up quite nicely.

Good spells of sunshine for central and eastern areas,

the odd shower for Wales, the south-west of England,

but most of the showers Saturday afternoon will be in

Northern Ireland and in Scotland,

maybe even the odd rumble of thunder.

17 or 18 degrees for Glasgow and Belfast,

21 or 22 degrees in the London area with much lower humidity

than we've seen in recent days. Should feel a good deal fresher.

And we keep that westerly airstream coming in for the second part

of the weekend, and I think you'll notice that fresher feel even more

because temperatures will be down by just a notch or two

in comparison with Saturday, but still a decent day for many areas.

Again, Scotland, Northern Ireland will see the bulk of the showers,

the odd one for parts of Wales and the south-west of England,

elsewhere it's largely dry.

Top temperatures on Sunday around about 19 or 20 degrees.

Now, make the most of the weekend because as we get on into Monday

things are going downhill, turning really quite wet and quite windy.

Here's the chart for Monday.

Quite a deep area of low pressure for early June,

very tightly-packed isobars,

so some really strong winds are expected - we're looking at gales

or even severe gales and you can see the extent of the rain,

how it covers large swathes of the UK.

So not a great day, really, on Monday.

Although many eastern areas will actually start on a dry and

bright note, clouds over pretty quickly and the rain soon follows.

It'll be a pretty miserable day if you've got some travelling plans

and underneath that rain it'll feel on the cool side as well.

And then on Monday night and on into Tuesday,

that low pressure system takes its wind and its rain with it.

It'll be a slow process but it will eventually clear out of the way.

It allows this north-westerly breeze to come in on Tuesday, so it's still

quite a breezy day and there will still be some showers dotted around.

And temperatures, well, it's the middle teens for many places,

might just about get into the upper teens in the south-eastern corner.

As we head on to the middle of the week,

we've got high pressure across the south of the UK,

low pressure towards the west and the north of the UK.

Quite a few isobars on the chart and this little weather system

moving its way through, so I think the southern half of the UK

will be fairly cloudy with some rain moving through.

The further north you are, it's largely dry,

but you might run into a few showers there in northern Scotland.

And again, it's the middle teens to the upper teens,

maybe the low 20s for some.

Then later next week, we've still got high pressure across

the near continent and low pressure to the north and west of us,

but notice how the isobars turn around to more of

a southerly direction,

and that is going to start to pull in some much warmer air.

So as we head on into Thursday, Friday,

we start to see that warm air pushing its way

quite a long way north across the UK,

so those temperatures will be rebounding back once again

and that warmer air gets all the way up into the north and

north-east of Scotland.

Now, as we look ahead towards next weekend,

we're looking out into the Atlantic for an area of low pressure.

The question is, which direction is it heading in?

It may well go towards the north-west but there's a chance that

it could slip a bit further south towards southern parts of the UK.

Either way, next weekend,

we are looking at spells of wind and rain coming in from the Atlantic.

It's going to feel quite fresh in the north and west of the UK,

but hopefully still hanging on to

a little bit of warmth in the south-east. Bye for now.