26/06/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there. If you've ever been on holiday

in the UK and been greeted by the locals saying,

"Should have been here last week,"

might well sum up the week ahead for some of you.

It certainly won't rival the extreme heat we saw in which

we saw the hottest conditions in 41 years - 35 degrees in London,

temperatures peaked quite widely high 20s, low to mid 30s.

The week ahead, though,

those peaks are most likely in the high teens,

maybe possibly low to mid 20s, so a good 10, 12 degrees cooler

than we saw last week and to go with it,

a lot more in the way of wetter weather around.

Good one for the gardeners.

Breezy at times and often cloudy and cool, so make the most of Monday

cos Monday will be probably the driest day of the working week.

High pressure is there to begin with and after a fresh start,

things should warm up quite nicely.

But you'll notice, waiting in the wings to the west of Ireland,

an area of low pressure starting to nudge its way in.

What that will do is, after a sunny start for Scotland, England

and Wales, increase the amounts of cloud spreading in,

sunshine turning hazy.

A few isolated showers in Scotland, most will be dry.

And temperatures will be boosted in that sunshine,

strong sunshine overhead.

Should feel like what really it should do this time of year -

high teens, low to mid 20s.

But you finish the day with rain into Northern Ireland and

it could be a wet evening rush hour here,

particularly Fermanagh, down in Omagh,

and that rain, through the night and into Tuesday,

spreads into central southern Scotland.

Some lively bursts of rain on the southern uplands,

southern portion of the Trossachs,

rain into the far north of England and also western Wales,

a few showers ahead of it. But this is the chart into Tuesday.

Low pressure really dominating the north and the west of the country,

allowing slightly more humid air to push into the south and east.

And with storms developing over France,

we could see some wetter weather push in here later in the day.

So, reasonably dry, reasonably bright

to the south-east of the country before that heavy thundery rain

moves in later to the north and the west,

cloud, outbreaks of rain coming and going.

Now, the chart for the week ahead then starts to get very messy,

so the exact detail from one day to the next always open to question,

but there's that general theme of low pressure with us.

It does look at the moment like it will be

a wet night to take us into Wednesday and quite windy and

cool across eastern parts of northern England,

eastern Scotland as the rain pushes its way northwards.

Far north of Scotland may stay dry, brighter weather in the south,

but showers will break out

as temperatures rise into the afternoon.

Then that low pressure pushes that weather front to the west of

the country, where it will sit with windy conditions on Thursday.

Some heavy bursts of rain, particularly across Scotland,

the rain turns a bit lighter further south.

England and Wales, we'll see some sunshine.

The afternoon showers will then develop,

some of them slow-moving, heavy and thundery.

And it will be the same again as we go into Friday.

The weather front to the west has a little less oomph to it,

so the rain lighter and patchier.

Cloudier, breezier conditions here, feeling quite cool as well.

Some sunshine further central and eastern parts but like Thursday,

we will see those showers develop and temperatures lower than

they should be for the time of year.

So, that takes us into the weekend,

with a dominant north-westerly flow to begin with.

Showers, and then this ridge of high pressure starts to build

its way in ahead of yet another low pressure system off in the Atlantic.

What that means weather-wise,

looks like next weekend the showers initially start to ease,

it turns drier, sunnier for a time, but potentially,

particularly to the north-west of the country, turning wetter again.

And that goes in to the following week there,

your first full week of July.

It does look like the jet stream will be strong enough across

the north Atlantic, us on the cooler side,

but it may run out of a bit of oomph as it comes to the UK,

so the low pressure may become stranded to the north-west of

the country, and that means high pressure may build

to the south and east.

So always likely to see the driest and warmest weather,

as you probably usually do, to the south and the east of the UK.

Bye for now.