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Hello. This summer has delivered a huge variety of weather, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
at times hot, at others very wet. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
But in the past couple of weeks in particular you'd be forgiven | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
for feeling short-changed. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:10 | |
So what's gone wrong with our summer? | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
Let's find some answers in the jet stream. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
Typically at this time of year we'd expect it to be north of the UK, | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
closer to Iceland. Nothing against that country or its fine people | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
but the jet stream should be nearer there than here. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
Here, beneath the jet stream, we'd expect the Azores High | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
to build in, giving us some settled summer warmth. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
What's actually happened in the past couple of weeks is the jet stream | 0:00:29 | 0:00:33 | |
has been unusually far south, | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
allowing low pressure systems to | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
ride along it | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
and come right across the UK, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
giving us the wet weather at times | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
and keeping it rather cool. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
So our summer recently has been in brief moments, | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
as we saw on Monday in-between the showers. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
In Kent and in Merseyside some pleasant blue sky but you really | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
know about it when the showers come in - cool, heavy rain, gusty winds. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
It's a similar picture on Tuesday. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
Some of us will start with lovely sunshine, | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
just don't expect it to last very long, | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
with low pressure close by on the jet stream | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
and the showers getting going. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
From the word go on Tuesday morning, | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
some in southern Scotland, northwest England, | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
Wales seeing some heavy downpours, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
and they're all pushing further east during the day, | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
some heavy, thundery ones with hail. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
Maybe some along the south coast of England, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
the far southeast will avoid them | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
but for some places that didn't get a shower | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
on Monday the chance is greater on Tuesday. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
For most parts temperatures in the teens, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
just a few into the low 20s. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
Going into Wednesday, slightly different. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
Low pressure's coming in again on the jet stream | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
but is producing rain rather than showers. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
And that rain moving in to Wales, western England, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
to Northern Ireland through the day but takes | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
a while to get there to much of Scotland and eastern England. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
So actually ahead of the rain, without any showers, | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
it'll be a better day for some of us. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
But eventually that rain will move on through | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
late Wednesday into Wednesday night | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
as the low pressure comes right across the UK. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
The winds pick up, | 0:01:53 | 0:01:54 | |
particularly on the southern flank of the low pressure, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
so really on Thursday quite a blustery day, | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
plenty of showers around but most frequent | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
towards the north and west, | 0:02:02 | 0:02:03 | |
not too many reaching East Anglia and southeast England. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
This is why here we're seeing the higher temperatures | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
more in the way of sunny spells. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
Bit of a change of wind direction for Friday, | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
around the low pressure, starting to pull away, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
just more of a west-north-westerly | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
towards the northwest of the UK. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
So to add insult to injury on Friday, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
there are still the showers around here | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
but the temperatures have come down a few degrees and again | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
most of the showers still hitting the north and west of the UK, | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
as they will be in the start of the weekend | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
because this is still predominantly a westerly breeze, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
so the further east you are, | 0:02:33 | 0:02:34 | |
particularly across England, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
the fewer showers you will see. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
These temperatures very un-summer like on Saturday. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
Won't be much better on Sunday. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
The jet stream, this is | 0:02:42 | 0:02:43 | |
the forecast for it on Sunday. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
Still taking that southern track and | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
it's still carrying weather systems. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:48 | |
This next one poised to come in | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
later on Sunday into the start | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
of next week. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
But later next week there are signs | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
that that Azores High pressure | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
is going to make an attempt to build | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
northwards across the UK, | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
bringing something more settled, | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
but how far it comes, | 0:03:04 | 0:03:05 | |
how many of us will feel the | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
influence is still open to question | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
before it gets squeezed south again | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
by the return of low pressure. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
But it looks like we're setting up | 0:03:13 | 0:03:14 | |
a north-south split later next week. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
The closer you are to low pressure, | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
northern parts of the UK more unsettled, | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
the closer you are to high pressure, | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
southern areas more settled. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:22 | |
But no widespread summer warmth yet. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
But last year our highest temperature came in September, | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
so don't lose hope yet. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:29 |