31/07/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Well, it's been quite a turbulent few days on the weather front,

lots of vicious showers, gusty winds as well,

and quite often in our climate, once the weather gets going across

the Atlantic, once we develop this really unsettled weather,

with lots of low pressures coming in,

it often stays like that for a while.

So, Sunday, we will have seen lots of showers across the country.

Here's a satellite image from earlier on,

with the low pressure to the north-west of us,

and the reason why I'm showing this to you is

because on Monday we're going to see a very similar picture.

But also were going to get some sunshine just like on Sunday,

so Monday will also bring blue skies, not just big downpours.

So I've already set the scene as far as this week is concerned.

There's no real sign of prolonged dry weather.

And the reason for it is that Jet stream,

very powerful jet stream, that sends weather systems in our direction.

And, actually, these low pressures have origins just off the eastern

seaboard of the United States there, and also Canada,

and that jet stream, for as long it's making a beeline for the UK,

that's when we get those weather systems coming in.

So let's have a closer look then across our part of the world,

here's Monday's weather forecast.

So, low pressure - still the same one that we will have had on Sunday,

still to the north-west of our neighbourhood, generating

some showers, even through the early hours of Monday morning.

And actually in some spots pretty chilly.

Temperatures in rural areas, first thing on Monday,

around five degrees.

But we often show you the towns and cities.

So here's Monday morning, then.

Start's off actually really sunny across many eastern,

central and southern areas.

A fair old breeze around these coastal areas here,

and with that low pressure, for as long as it's here,

those showers will keep being blown in by that wind

and some of them heavy and thundery as well.

Now, as far as the temperatures go, actually, they're not that bad.

In London, the average is 23. We're getting 23 on Monday.

In Belfast, the average is 19. And we are forecasting 19 on Monday.

So when I say that summer's on hold, it really is -

the dry and sunny weather that we'd like that's on hold.

Temperatures are about where they should be.

So here's Tuesday's weather forecast.

There is little area of low pressure across northern Scotland

and parts of northern Ireland.

This is where we will see most of the showers on Tuesday.

But perhaps a bit of a break from the showers across some south...

central and south-eastern areas. But still maybe a few sneaking through.

And then it changes on Wednesday because we have a bigger area,

a more substantial area of low pressure on the way.

What does that mean?

That means extensive cloud and continuous outbreaks of rain,

rather than on and off showers,

moving into south-western parts of England, Wales,

and then eventually Northern Ireland.

This is really early in the morning.

And then quickly through the afternoon,

that rain is going to be spreading towards eastern areas.

So perhaps Hull and Newcastle hanging onto some of that

sunshine early in the day.

And then Wednesday night into Thursday,

that weather front will have pushed through the UK,

and then behind it, again, we've got showers and a fair old wind as well.

So that's Thursday. How about the end of the week?

I showed you the jet stream at the start. Here's the jet stream.

Again you can see it's making a beeline for the UK,

so once again any sort of disturbances in the weather forming

across the Atlantic will be shunted in our direction straightaway.

And here is the weekend, next weekend, that is.

Low pressure close by, but look at this...

we're starting to see a high pressure, possibly nosing in.

In about 8 to 10 days' time, so beyond the following weekend.

However, it does look as though that high pressure

may not have a massive influence.

It could be the case that low pressure, once again,

returns to northern parts of the UK.

Stay tuned.