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Hello, there. I wish I could bring you better news | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
for this Week Ahead forecast, | 0:00:04 | 0:00:05 | |
but I'm afraid to say it looks like summer is still on hold, | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
as it's looking pretty unsettled, with outbreaks of rain for many. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
"Where's the heat gone," you wonder? | 0:00:11 | 0:00:13 | |
Well, in the last week or so, | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
as you probably know, | 0:00:15 | 0:00:16 | |
it's been reserved for the south of Europe. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
The Mediterranean has seen | 0:00:18 | 0:00:19 | |
a stifling heat wave, | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
with temperatures ranging | 0:00:20 | 0:00:21 | |
between 40 and 45 Celsius, | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
and it's been very humid with it, too. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:24 | |
It's caused all sorts of problems - | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
but this is gradually on the way out, | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
as well, and that's because | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
the jet stream is diving south | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
in towards the west | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
in the Mediterranean, introducing cooler air - | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
but near our shores, | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
this kink in the jet stream | 0:00:37 | 0:00:38 | |
could absorb an area of low pressure, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
which could be with us for quite a while. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
Things were quite unsettled | 0:00:43 | 0:00:44 | |
at the weekend, as well. On Saturday, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
we saw sunshine and showers, | 0:00:46 | 0:00:47 | |
some of them torrential, | 0:00:47 | 0:00:48 | |
with hail and thunder across the south. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
On Sunday, we had an east-west split, | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
with many southern and eastern areas | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
enjoying some fine, dry weather | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
with some sunshine. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:57 | |
Further west, | 0:00:57 | 0:00:58 | |
an area of low pressure moved in | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
to bring wet and increasingly windy weather, | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
initially to Scotland and Northern Ireland. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
Now, that weather front, | 0:01:04 | 0:01:05 | |
bringing the wet weather across the west, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
will be straddling central parts of England | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
in towards South Wales on Monday, | 0:01:09 | 0:01:10 | |
maybe some heavy bursts of rain | 0:01:10 | 0:01:11 | |
across the south-west, | 0:01:11 | 0:01:12 | |
a little bit of brightness in the south-east, | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
and, for Scotland and Northern Ireland, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
it looks like it will be a mixture of sunshine and showers. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
Now, this is the area of low pressure | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
I was talking about, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
and that kink in the jet stream, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
which will move northwards into the North Sea, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
to very much influence our weather | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
from Tuesday onwards. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
So, it looks like it's going to become | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
very unsettled - | 0:01:32 | 0:01:33 | |
in fact, active weather fronts | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
could bring some very heavy rain | 0:01:35 | 0:01:36 | |
to central, southern and eastern parts | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
of England, in particular, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
and will start to pick up | 0:01:40 | 0:01:41 | |
a north-easterly wind, as well, | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
so, feeling cool along the North Sea coast. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
The further west that you are, | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
the better chance of seeing | 0:01:48 | 0:01:49 | |
a little bit of drier weather, | 0:01:49 | 0:01:50 | |
maybe with some sunshine. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:51 | |
Now, as we head on in towards Wednesday, | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
this vigorous area of low pressure | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
will still be with us, | 0:01:55 | 0:01:56 | |
very much influencing our weather, | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
bringing strong northerly winds | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
and bouts of heavy rain - | 0:02:00 | 0:02:01 | |
but this area of high pressure | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
wants to build in, | 0:02:03 | 0:02:04 | |
and it will slowly push its way eastwards | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
as we head on towards the latter part of the week. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
So, for Wednesday, | 0:02:09 | 0:02:10 | |
not a pretty picture again. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
It's expected to be quite cool | 0:02:12 | 0:02:13 | |
in northerly winds, heavy, maybe thundery rain | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
affecting central and eastern areas | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
throughout the day. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:19 | |
A better chance of seeing some dry weather | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
further west. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:22 | |
That's because we'll see this area of high pressure | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
starting to topple in from the south-west, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
and it will slowly push | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
the cloud and the rain eastwards - | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
but it will be a slow process. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
I think, on Thursday, | 0:02:33 | 0:02:34 | |
East Anglia and the South East | 0:02:34 | 0:02:35 | |
might hold on to that northerly wind | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
and outbreaks of rain, | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
but I think, generally speaking, | 0:02:39 | 0:02:40 | |
Thursday could be the best day of the week | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
regards to drier, possibly brighter weather. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
Those temperatures not that impressive - | 0:02:45 | 0:02:46 | |
16 to maybe 21 Celsius in the south-east. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
Now, as we head in | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
towards the end of this week, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:52 | |
it looks like the jet stream | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
will steer some low-pressure systems | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
into our direction, | 0:02:55 | 0:02:56 | |
but the area of high pressure to the south, | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
the Azores High, | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
is likely to keep them focused | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
across the north. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:03 | |
So, we will have a north-south split | 0:03:03 | 0:03:04 | |
as we had on in towards next weekend, | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
with largely fine and dry conditions | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
to the south, | 0:03:08 | 0:03:09 | |
to the north, areas of low-pressure | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
will bring bouts of rain | 0:03:11 | 0:03:12 | |
and maybe some strong wind, at times, too. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
So, that's the summary | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
to end the forecast. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
Some rain across northern areas, | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
largely dry across the south, | 0:03:19 | 0:03:20 | |
closest to that area of high pressure, | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
but the main message is, | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
no summery weather is going to occur. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
Looks like it's still going to be | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
on hold for the time being. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:29 |