26/08/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. We are hurtling towards the end of August.

In fact, this ten-day forecast

takes us into the first few days of September.

But it's not too late to see

some fine dry, summer-like weather

and we're going to have some of that

through this weekend,

the bank holiday weekend, of course.

For many, high pressure increasingly dominating the scene,

and that means plenty of fine weather, some spells of sunshine.

Now, it has been soggy at times

across Northern Ireland and Scotland

but for Northern Ireland

and western Scotland, particularly,

things will be much drier on Saturday.

Still some showers for eastern Scotland, northeast England,

some of these heavy, possibly thundery.

Further south, there'll be some areas of cloud,

some sunny spells, and temperatures as high as 25 degrees.

It'll be fine through Saturday evening,

any showers in the northeast will fade away.

There'll be some clear spells, maybe the odd fog patch,

and overnight lows of 12 to 16 degrees,

perhaps a little humid down towards the southeast.

But high pressure really is the story of the day

on Sunday, bringing fine conditions

across just about all parts of the British Isles.

Some spells of sunshine at times.

A weak weather front threatening to bring some cloud

and some dampness into the far northwest of Scotland,

particularly the Western Isles,

a little breezy here as well,

and temperatures ranging from 17 in Aberdeen

to a high of 25 in London.

But after a quiet couple of days,

the jet stream begins to break through again

as we get into Monday, bank holiday for many areas, of course,

steering weather systems in our direction,

particularly this weather front here,

a cold front, which will be moving into Northern Ireland

and western Scotland with increasingly strong winds.

So, increasingly wet and blustery weather on Monday

across Northern Ireland and northern and western Scotland,

some heavy bursts of rain here.

Further south, across much of England and Wales,

there'll be some sunshine

and it could feel very warm indeed - 27, 28 degrees is possible

across the southeast. However,

our cold front will continue to

journey south-eastwards during Monday night,

taking rain with it,

and behind that, we introduce

some much cooler, fresher air from the Atlantic.

Some of the rain may well

drag its heels across the southeast on Tuesday morning,

quite light and patchy as it goes,

but look at the temperatures -

15 to 21 degrees at best.

A much cooler feel, and a fairly cool day on Wednesday.

Some sunny spells.

A few showers into the northwest.

Some uncertainty about the details of this,

but it does look like, for the middle part of next week,

we're going to develop an area of low pressure.

That's likely to slide across north-western parts,

but at the same time,

it will allow us to pull in an area of high pressure

towards the southeast,

and this is the pattern

as we go into September -

the jet stream likely to be blowing

up to the northwest,

steering weather systems to the northwest,

and allowing high pressure

to build in more broadly

across the country, meaning

a lot of fine weather.

In this situation,

we can get some rain.

In north-western areas, the south-westerly winds

could bring moisture and some outbreaks of rain

to the far northwest,

and there is the potential for

some humid air to waft in from the south.

That could give one or two thunderstorms

but, broadly speaking,

early September looks likely to be dry for the most part,

fairly warm as well but with a little bit of rain

in the northwest. So it is not too late

to see some fine, dry, summer-like weather.