31/08/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello again. Over the next ten days, I doubt we're going to find

the weather lurching from one extreme to another

quite as we have done over the last day or two.

Now, this was London on Wednesday and remember the day before

in the south-east of England, the temperature was 29 degrees.

Well, on Wednesday, thanks to the cloud and rain, London,

Reading and Ipswich were only 14 degrees

and it should be nearer 19 or 20 at this time of the year.

Elsewhere, across the UK, those numbers were nearer the

average for the end of the month and we'll see those sort of

temperatures over the coming few days.

After the rain, we've got sunshine and showers, really,

on Thursday. Many eastern parts of England starting dry

but the showers will arrive here through the afternoon,

quite slow-moving, heavy, potentially with some hail and

thunder - temperatures about 17 or 18 but quite a bit warmer

across the south-east and East Anglia than it was

on Wednesday. Those showers continue across eastern areas

through the evening and then they'll probably tend to

fade away overnight. And with little or no breeze around

and clear skies, it's going to be quite cold.

Those are the numbers in the towns and cities

but five, six degrees quite likely in some rural areas.

Now as we move towards the end of the week, in time for the weekend,

we are going to start to push up this area of high pressure

from the Atlantic and that kills off most of the showers,

so for most of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales

and the western parts of England, it may well be dry on Friday.

Showers - very hit and miss, mind you - more likely

across eastern parts of England. Even here, many places will

still be dry, to end the week.

And we've got those familiar temperatures again, these are the

average sort of temperatures we'd expect at this time of the year.

And of course, we are now moving into September,

Friday into Saturday that ridge of high pressure beginning

to retreat a little bit because look at what's coming in

from the Atlantic - that's going to change things eventually.

Still a fine day for most places on Saturday,

some warm sunshine around after another chilly start.

We've got more cloud and more breeze beginning to arrive

across Northern Ireland, perhaps the north-west of Scotland as well,

where temperatures are about 17 degrees.

Warmer in the sunshine further south and east.

And then as we move overnight into the second half of the weekend,

this is where we start to see some significant changes

because as well as the wind picking up, we've got these

weather fronts moving in and that will bring some rain initially

across the western side of the UK. Slowly pushing its way eastwards,

some doubt as to how far east it will get and for most of the day

eastern Scotland and eastern England will be dry and bright

with some sunshine. We're going to get some tropical

air, not from Harvey that was bringing all that rain in Texas,

but this area of cloud here was a tropical low and it brings

with it the rain that we see on Sunday.

And it brings with it some complications in the forecast.

It looks like that rain should tend to peter out on Monday

but we are left with a lot of cloud and some warmer, more tropical air,

so temperatures will be a bit higher to start next week.

But there are more weather fronts and bands of rain lurking

out in the Atlantic to slowly push into the UK.

So the longer-range outlook hasn't really changed very much.

We're going to gradually get this Atlantic influence with these

bands of rain out towards the north-west erratically

moving eastwards across the UK. The strongest winds are

going to be across the north-west of the UK

but we're going to blow in some warmer nights, thanks to more cloud

with those showers or some longer spells of rain.

Gales are likely in the north-west but towards the south-east

always that bit drier. Not much rain and temperatures should be

a bit higher as well. Goodbye.