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Hello, we've changed the month but we haven't changed the weather. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
Tuesday was another day of intense downpours for some of us. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:07 | |
But given that we have changed the month, | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
let's take this opportunity to look back at some of July's highs and | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
lows up to 29th, the provisional figures from the Met Office. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
We'll start with rainfall, for the UK as a whole | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
wetter than normal but where you are in the blue and particularly | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
the darker blues, you have been most wet compared with average, | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
parts of southern England, | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Northern Ireland and south-west Scotland. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
Now, in terms of temperature, for the UK really close to average | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
but as well as being wetter than normal, | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
parts of the south of the UK were warmer than average for July, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
parts of Scotland were cooler than average. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
Now, we don't always show you the sunshine, but there is a | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
reason for this, there is a nugget of interest in this. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
In the yellows and oranges, more sunshine than average, | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
and especially into the Northern Isles, | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
and into Shetland, where Shetland was sunnier than Cornwall in July. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
That's only happened on a handful of occasions before | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
on the weather records. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
And we've changed the month, but we haven't changed the weather. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
There's your Tuesday's sunshine from Shetland | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
and this is your cloud in Cornwall, not just cloud, this | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
is a funnel cloud, a tornado, not quite touching the ground. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
Such was the turbulent nature | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
of Tuesday's weather on the first day of the month. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
And Wednesday, still the same pattern, the day starts wet and | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
windy in Cornwall, we'll have some sunny spells in the Northern Isles. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
Now, low pressure moving in on Wednesday, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
and that means some wet, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:17 | |
windy weather spreading its way north-eastwards across the UK, | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
near gales around some of these south-western coasts. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
Heavier bursts running eastwards across southern England, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
but not reaching the far north and north-east of Scotland until we | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
get into the evening, temperatures just around 17 to 20 Celsius. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
Now, the rain does finally reach into the Northern Isles | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
as we go through Wednesday night, | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
low-pressure edging across Scotland on its southern | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
flank on Thursday, really quite a blustery day, so quite brisk winds. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
Showers most frequent | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
in northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
some heavy, thundery, risk of hail, not too many for the | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
rest of England and Wales, though | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
again it will be windy - but sunny spells. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
Low pressure only very slowly moving eastwards on Friday | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
but around it dragging a more | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
north-westerly component to our wind. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
So if anything, even cooler on Friday, | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
with further showers particularly towards north-western parts, | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
not too many in the south and east. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
But for some of us just into the mid-teens and that rather | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
cool weather pattern, breezy too, continues into the start of the | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
weekend, that low only at this | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
stage finally reaching into Scandinavia. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
So, breezy on Saturday, most of the showers affecting | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
north-western areas, not too many to the south and east, | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
some sunny spells but nowhere particularly warm. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
A ridge of high pressure coming in for part two of the weekend, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
on Sunday, but you can see another weather system to the west, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
poised to move in. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
And as we look at the jet stream, towards the end of Sunday | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
and into the start of next week, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:35 | |
we talked about the southern track | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
of it keeping us unsettled yesterday | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
and so, yeah, here it is, still in that | 0:02:40 | 0:02:41 | |
southern flow here, with low pressure moving through. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
But hold on a minute, what did we just pass in the mid-Atlantic? | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
A bulge here, it looks like the jet stream taking a more | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
wavy pattern in the Atlantic, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
encouraged to some degree by the remnants of | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
tropical storm Emily coming out of the USA. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
And so we will find with that more wavy pattern, we're more | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
inclined to see high pressure moving in for a time next week. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
We're more confident now that that is going to happen and settle things | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
down for many of us, how long though is still open to question | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
and it could well be that we, still around the northern | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
edge of the high pressure, get weather systems brushing Scotland | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
and it could well be we get | 0:03:14 | 0:03:15 | |
something more typical for the time of year, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
cloudy skies and wet at times in the Northern Isles, | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
whereas Cornwall sees a bit of sunshine. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
How long the high pressure will stick around, though, | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
is certainly something we are going to be looking at in the coming | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
days on Weather For The Week ahead. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 |