08/07/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello once again. It's time we updated you

on what we expect to see right across the British Isles

for this weekend, then we'll look in some detail at the first half

of the forthcoming week,

and we'll try and give you a flavour

of what's to come

as we get towards next weekend.

So far today,

the country's been somewhat split

by this weather front

which produced an awful lot of cloud across Scotland for a time.

The odd bit and piece of rain getting across the border

into the north of England too.

It didn't do much for the temperatures.

Further south, that poor old bee, yet again,

as has been the case quite often this week,

was labouring in temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius,

close by to Heathrow, that is.

The forthcoming weekend, well, if the heat hasn't been your thing,

if indeed you've seen the heat, it will feel fresher.

There is some sunshine in the forecast.

There's a shower if not a longer spell of rain

to be had as we get on into Sunday.

The front that produced all that cloud

across Scotland for a time,

Northern Ireland too,

will gradually slump its way,

into the first part of Saturday,

ever further south,

really clouding things up.

A good deal more perhaps than we've seen of late.

It still has enough about it to be producing

the odd bit and piece of rain.

Especially so in the first part of the day

across the southern half of both England and Wales,

out towards the west.

One or two of those spots could creep further east.

Still the temperature around 24,

possibly 25 in the southeast,

just that wee bit fresher,

but not unseasonably so further north.

Then as that feature dies a death across the south,

there's a band of cloud.

We bring another set of fronts in

towards the southern half of Scotland

through Northern Ireland. A dank old day here.

Further south, a lot of dry weather around.

Still warm in the southeast

with just one or two isolated showers.

From Sunday on into Monday,

we've got weather fronts close by.

It may well be developments in the upper atmosphere

that, come the middle of the day

and indeed on into the afternoon,

really begin to spark off quite a number of showers.

A fresher feel across the piste here,

especially so in that southeastern quarter

where the top temperature will be closer to 22 or 23,

rather than 29 or 30.

Tuesday sees a random lump of cloud

not really tied in with any feature

that we can discern just at the moment.

But it could generate quite a bit of shower activity,

if not the odd longer spell of rain.

Another more organised low pressure drags rain, we suspect,

very close by to the southwest of England.

That's something of a neat call at the moment,

but that's the way it's looking just now.

Then, if you happen to be on holiday,

or whether you're not,

you've got that little ridge of high pressure building,

tending to kill off many of the showers.

The temperatures, for the most part,

pretty close to what we would expect

at this time of year.

So into the middle part of the week,

things beginning to calm down,

having seen those islands of cloud

bringing that rather unsettled fare.

But as we get on into the second half

of the forthcoming week,

there'll be the juxtaposition of low pressure

close by to the northern half of the British Isles,

high pressure in the south.

Occasionally the high will win out

and push the low pressure further away.

So a better chance of seeing

somewhat drier, finer conditions

for the greater part of the British Isles.

But nothing hangs around

for very long at all

because, before you know it,

that area of high pressure

slips away a little bit further

towards the southwest,

allowing another area of low pressure

to trundle in close by to the northern half of the British Isles,

so we get that juxtaposition of the high and the low,

bringing - at times - some rain.

Breezy for the most part,

but generally much fresher

in the south than we've seen of late.

Enjoy your weekend.