23/07/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

It's been quite a dramatic day on the weather front today.

Lots of contrasts in the weather

from some sunshine in the north of Scotland

to downpours across the south of the UK

and all brought by this area of low pressure

and actually brought some pretty exciting weather

just off the south coast of Sussex.

We had a report and then a picture sent in

of a marine equivalent

of a tornado,

otherwise known as a water spout,

and you can see it here.

If you squint, you can just about

make out the funnel, which reaches

right up into the cloud

and they're very narrow weather systems.

They're only maybe 10m across, winds of 70mph -

still pretty dramatic weather

and just shows how active the weather is

across the UK right now.

The low pressure that brought us the unsettled weather

during the course of Saturday

is still very much with us on Sunday.

It does mean, though,

that the morning is going to be sunny,

but with the low pressure over us,

the clouds will be growing through the morning

into the afternoon

and then we'll see more showers developing,

but I suspect across these more southern

and south-eastern areas of the UK as well as the Midlands,

it is going to be a slightly better day

compared to what we had on Saturday.

Then that takes us into the early hours of Monday.

The low pressure starts to pull away.

It's around about here,

around Belgium, Luxembourg.

We're on the edge of the area of low pressure

so that means that winds will be coming in

from the north across this part of the country here.

Still close by, the low,

so still driving the weather

anywhere from the north coast

of England through East Anglia,

down into the south-east.

So these areas on Monday

still cloudy at times with some rain,

whereas western areas,

the weather sort of opening up here.

We're getting more sunshine,

more dry weather,

but only a short window of opportunity

because the weather, the settled weather

isn't going to last for very long.

Very pleasant on Monday. Look at that,

temperatures of 23 degrees there in Glasgow,

but you can see that on Tuesday,

weather systems are already

starting to line-up in the Atlantic

so it does look as though Tuesday overall

across the UK is going to be

the best day of the week ahead

and then the weather fronts start marching in

so by the time we get to Wednesday,

they're right on top of us,

particularly across western areas of the UK here,

so that spells outbreaks of rain

and, in fact, it does look as though

next week is going to be changeable,

unsettled from day to day

so we have one weather front crossing the country

during the course of Wednesday,

moving through Wednesday night into Thursday,

then it looks as though

there'll be another gap in the weather

and we'll see a slightly better day on Thursday.

So, Thursday's weather forecast

is looking a little bit drier,

a little bit brighter,

particularly across these western areas of the UK,

temperatures around 18

to perhaps the low 20s there,

depending on how much sunshine we're going to get

and then towards the end of the week,

the jet stream starts to build.

It's right over us

so it's going to be sending

yet another weather system in our direction

so certainly by Friday,

it looks as though Friday and Saturday,

there will be low pressures coming in into the UK,

but high pressure tries to build,

this bump in the high pressure tries to build

into southern areas of the UK

so always a bit more settled across the south

so the most unsettled weather

with the most likely outcome of cloud and rain

is in the north-west,

whereas in the south,

perhaps broken cloud,

a little bit warmer with some sunshine.

So, really, the outlook here

is we're not expecting

any sustained period of warmth

or anything like that.

It is going to stay mostly unsettled,

mostly changeable

with temperatures a little below par for some of us

and even rather on the cool side.

That's it from me. Bye-bye.

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