05/07/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

We know we Brits love to talk about the weather.

Two types in particular.

One is snow and the other is summer heat.

There isn't any snow in this forecast. That would get us talking.

But there is summer heat.

It is coming back around this area of low pressure,

stuck close to northern Spain.

We are dragging the flow of air around that.

Some much warmer, more humid air up across the UK

over the next couple of days.

And whilst all parts will be warming up,

it's England and Wales that will see the highest temperatures,

mid to upper 20s.

And particularly southern England bearing the brunt,

because not everybody likes it,

with temperatures at around 30 Celsius

and some very warm and muggy nights to come.

Now, that process is underway, then, during Wednesday,

helped by more sunshine across southern England and South Wales.

Sunny spells, too, in northern Scotland.

Abbeymore could see 20 Celsius.

But south-east Scotland to north-east England

staying rather cloudy,

still perhaps a little bit of light rain or drizzle

and temperatures just at around 15 Celsius.

So there are big temperature contrasts around during Wednesday.

Where you have the heat on Wednesday,

it will be a very warm and muggy night on Wednesday night.

And this weather disturbance, this area of low pressure,

pushes northwards into the UK during Thursday.

So the heat and humidity is still here.

Some early rain in Scotland clearing away.

But it's parts of Wales,

especially east Wales and into England that,

along with that heat and humidity,

could see some torrential thunderstorms breaking out.

As ever, very hit and miss.

By no means everybody will catch one.

If you do, you could well know about it. There could be some disruption.

But into the 20s in Scotland, compared with Wednesday.

But again, the hotspots in southern England near 30 Celsius.

That weather disturbance moving away during Friday,

but still with a lot of heat left behind that

and particularly in south-east England,

again at around 30 Celsius.

A chance it might be even a little bit higher than that.

It is cooler the further north you are,

but still feeling quite warm and muggy.

But then there is a weather system coming in

at the start of the weekend.

This area of low pressure driving this cold front southwards

and that's a game-changer for the weekend,

as it turns cooler and fresher from the north-west.

Now, along that weather front,

by the time it reaches into England and Wales,

probably just a few showers.

And on Saturday, not reaching East Anglia and south-east England yet,

so still warmth and humidity.

Where as elsewhere, temperatures down into the teens.

And on Sunday, that weather front has now moved through,

so we're all cooler and fresher.

Another one is coming in towards the north-west.

Some uncertainty about timing on this one.

But again, parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England

at risk of seeing some outbreaks of rain and quite breezy conditions.

It looks mainly dry for the rest of the UK towards the south-east.

But notice those temperatures have come down.

And that takes us on to next week, which is looking fairly changeable.

At times, a little bulge from the Azores high

will try and come in and settle things down.

But in other days, there'll be low pressure

brushing the north-west of the UK, pushing weather fronts southwards,

taking some outbreaks of rain and picking up the wind.

As the low pressure pulls away, the Azores high builds back in again

to settle things down,

more noticeably across southern parts of the UK.

So it is up and down next week.

The sort of weather you get

depends on how close you are to the weather systems.

The closer to that low pressure

towards the north and north-west of the UK,

parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England,

will see the wetter, windier conditions at times.

Although weather fronts will push right the way across the UK,

it will be drier and warmer towards the south-east,

compared with the rest of the UK,

though not as hot as it will be over the next two days.

In fact, next week is looking really quite climatological,

quite average.

And average weather doesn't happen very often in the UK.

That's another talking point.