28/08/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

I'll start and end this forecast with an area of high pressure.

Some variations in between which we will cover

in the next three and a half minutes.

For much of the country, Monday is a bank holiday

and this area of high pressure

bringing something very settled and warm

for much of England and Wales.

But further north and west, a different story.

A squeeze in the isobars strengthening the winds

across Northern Ireland and Scotland

and bringing some outbreaks

of potentially heavy rain here.

A lot more cloud across northern parts of England,

western parts of Wales,

but for east Wales and for much of England,

dry, plenty of sunshine.

Quite a range in temperature, as you would expect.

17 Celsius to the north-west of Scotland,

but in the best of the sunshine

across central, eastern,

south-eastern parts of England,

we could potentially see highs of 28 Celsius

and it will be a fine end to the day here.

A different story further north

and west as that band of rain sinks its way south

and eastwards through the evening

and overnight across parts

of northern England, northern parts of Wales.

An improving picture across Scotland and Northern Ireland,

but still very windy here

and it will be a mild night

with temperatures building up

to between 10 and 15 Celsius for most,

16 or 17 across south-eastern parts of the country.

Now, that front continues to slip its way south

and eastwards through Tuesday.

It's a weakening affair

so through Tuesday morning,

there could be some patchy light rain and drizzle,

say, across the Midlands, some parts of Wales,

but that will soon fizzle out.

A lot of cloud around on Tuesday,

but generally a dry day.

Still windy across Northern Ireland and Scotland

and certainly a fresher feel for much of north-western

and western parts of the country,

but still holding on to some warmth and humidity

the further east and south-east you go.

Now, let's look ahead to Wednesday

because we're being attacked from two fronts -

one from this system in the Atlantic

and another pushing up from the near continent

so it brings a slightly more unsettled day.

If we're going to see any rain at all in the week,

it will probably be on Wednesday.

The exact detail a little bit hard to define at this stage,

but it will be a cloudier day.

There will be some outbreaks of rain at times,

but it won't be raining all day

and the rain unlikely to amount to very much.

What we will see is generally fresher conditions

across the whole country,

midweek 16 to 20 Celsius the high.

Now, as we go into Thursday,

these systems slowly push their way eastwards.

Some of it may just linger for a time

on Thursday morning across south-east England,

but aside from a few showers across Northern Ireland

and Scotland on Thursday,

much of the country will have a dry day.

There'll be some spells of sunshine,

temperatures typically between 17 and 21 Celsius

in light winds.

It should feel quite pleasant out and about

and it's almost a repeat performance on Friday.

Mainly dry, one or two showers,

but in the sunshine, a high of 21 Celsius

really should feel quite pleasant indeed.

But we look to the south-west,

the western south-west later on Friday

and it's this area of low pressure

which is fairly close by.

However, it looks like this area of high pressure

is going to dominate as we head into the weekend

and what that will do

is deflect any low pressure systems.

Its exact position may well change

and it could just allow that low pressure system

to bring maybe a little bit more cloud,

maybe some patchy rain

to the far north-west of Scotland

and for Ireland,

but otherwise a lot of dry weather

into the weekend

and we're drawing up this warm air

from the near continent

so particularly across southern and eastern areas

as we go into early September,

there should be some warmth,

it should be largely settled.

I can't rule out one or two showers,

but it looks like

there's a lot of dry weather

into the start of next moth. Bye-bye.