07/11/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello, thanks for joining me.

It's that time again,

where we take a look at the

forthcoming week in some detail.

And then we try and give you

a flavour of what's to come

in the forthcoming week, although,

as with life, the further ahead

you look, the good deal more

uncertain things become.

In the shorter term, I'm pretty sure

that Tuesday is going to

be all about where you are in

relation to that weather front,

which, as you see, as we unfold

Tuesday, will gradually ease its way

a little bit further

towards the east.

So that's going to be good

news for Scotland, Northern Ireland

and eventually the western

side of Wales and maybe the far west

of Cornwall. And you'll notice that,

given the speed of advance,

it's pretty good news for

the far east of East Anglia

and the South East, where you won't

see the rain from that front

until really quite late on but

if you're anywhere near the

spine of the British Isles, you

could be in for a fairly wet day.

As we get on into the wee small

hours of Wednesday,

that frontal system is still lurking

there across the far east,

helping to keep the temperatures up

but where the skies clear behind,

Wednesday is going to

start on a bright but frosty note

for a good part of the

British Isles. It is but a temporary

ridge of high pressure sandwiched

between what, if you like,

we'll call Tuesday's weather

and the end of Wednesday's weather

trying to get into the north-west of

Scotland, towards Northern Ireland,

to finish off the day.

In between, as I say,

there is that prospect of a dry,

fine crisp sort of day.

Temperatures not really responding

too much to that sunshine,

never better than 9, 10, 11 degrees,

something of that order.

So there we are for Wednesday, with

up in the north-west the first signs

of Thursday's rain belt

gradually tumbling in.

Notice the number of isobars across

the northern parts of Scotland,

it's fairly wet and windy fare here.

As we come that little bit

further south,

the linkage barely discernible

there, the old weather front

has just got the odd drib

and drab of rain about it,

not much more than that. It's a

westerly breeze rather than

a north-westerly, though,

so the temperatures for many into

double figures.

And we keep that prospect going

from Thursday into Friday,

although you'll notice we are really

squeezing up the isobars there.

If this all comes to pass,

Friday could be quite a windy day

but again it's from the west,

the main belt of rain lying, such

as it is, right across the heart

of the British Isles. Another

one across the far north of Scotland

but to either side of those

belts of weather, not a bad day.

A blustery one

but not cold by any means at all.

Just notice how those

isobars are beginning to crank round

a little bit more towards

the north-west as we get on into

Saturday. So this is a bright,

blustery sort of day.

There will be copious

numbers of showers, though,

just getting in on the

north-westerly across

the north of Scotland,

maybe some there just flirting

with the far south-west as well.

We're rather establishing a pattern

here for the weekend,

in that it will be dominated

by those north-westerlies,

perhaps that little ridge of high

pressure just calming

things down a touch as we get

on in to Sunday.

But the major players are beginning

to shape up -

low pressure to the

south of Iceland, high pressure down

closer towards the Azores.

And it's a bit of an arms race

to get in to the British Isles

and be the dominant feature.

Now, quite who wins out on that

race, at the moment,

is open to a good

deal of conjecture.

If the high pressure dominates,

then things will be a good

deal more settled.

Frosty starts perhaps, if the sky is

clear but I'm not promising

wall-to-wall sunshine,

by any means at all.

If the low pressure wins out for

more of us, then the atmosphere's

much more unsettled and there

will be some cloud, perhaps some

wind and certainly the prospect

of more unsettled fare as well.

I'll be back again

tomorrow, bye-bye.