21/07/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there. July is turning out to be a bit of a month of two halves.

For the first two weeks, the weather was often dry and fairly warm too.

Things have been turning much more unsettled over recent days.

Over the past few days, we've seen some heavy downpours,

some flooding problems too.

Here is the scene in County Armagh on Thursday afternoon.

Some heavy downpours there.

We've got low pressure still pretty close by.

In fact, it's moving in to the southwest of the UK

through the course of Friday,

bringing some wet and windy weather.

Then a ridge of high pressure sits out in the Atlantic.

That'll settle the weather down

through the middle of the week,

before more rain arrives later in the week.

So let's take a look at Friday.

With that low pressure moving in from the west,

it'll be a pretty wet day for Northern Ireland,

and also particularly for Wales

and the southwest of England,

where those strong winds are going to be blowing

through much of the day. Further north and east,

it's going to be staying largely dry

for northern Scotland,

right down to the southeast of England.

Temperatures here 23 degrees,

but feeling cooler further west

with the rain and the breeze too.

We could see some surface water flooding

across Wales and the southwest of England.

Overnight and into Saturday,

all that showery rain starts to edge

a little bit further northwards and eastwards

across the country.

It will be a mild start to your weekend.

But the weekend is looking fairly unsettled.

We can still see those rotating winds

in the southwest.

So blustery and showery for parts of Wales,

the southwest of England too.

Further northwards and eastwards across the UK,

we'll also see some of those showers

breaking out during the day.

But not a wash-out, some sunshine in between.

Temperatures 16 to 21 degrees.

Feeling relatively cool for the time of year.

Then heading on into the second half of the weekend,

low pressure starts to drift its way

eventually away from the southwest.

It'll be sitting somewhere out in the North Sea

or the near continent

by the time we get to Sunday.

So with low pressure still not far away,

it's going to be another showery day.

There'll be some brighter spells, but it will be central

and eastern parts of the country

that will be more prone to see

the heavier downpours during Sunday.

Moving through into the new working week,

low pressure stays fairly close by towards the east,

so we could well see a spell of wet and fairly windy weather

around eastern parts of England -

in particular down towards East Anglia,

for instance, quite a blustery, wet sort of day.

Elsewhere, things are much quieter

towards central and western parts of the country.

Temperatures 22 degrees or so.

Things are not looking too bad, in fact,

through Monday and on into Tuesday as well,

as that ridge of high pressure, for a time,

topples in across the UK.

It won't be lasting too long,

but make the most of that dry and settled weather

through the course of Monday into Tuesday too.

Tuesday, with lighter winds,

it's a drier day, more sunshine.

We could see the warmer spots

reaching around 24 degrees or so.

So looking through into the middle part of the week,

with that ridge of high pressure,

things are looking dry and settled for a time,

but low pressure from midweek onwards moves in

once again from the west, or the northwest,

bringing some wet and some windy weather.

So the jet stream is strengthening out in the Atlantic.

As we head towards the latter part of next week

with kinks in that jet stream,

that is what is going to be delivering

those areas of low pressure.

They will be interspersed with some drier, brighter

and showery weather too, but all in all, a pretty unsettled picture.

With the low pressure moving into the north and the west,

it'll be northern and western parts of the UK

that will see the wettest and the windiest of the weather.

Further south and east, you're more likely to see scenes like this,

so slightly drier, brighter and a little bit less windy, all in all.

But through the course of next week, certainly a changeable theme.

We'll have that drier spell through the middle of the week,

but then rain returning later in the week.

After a little bit of slightly warmer weather for a time,

things will remain rather cool for the time of year.

Bye for now.

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