08/11/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. If you've been watching Weather For The Week Ahead

you'll know I've been speaking about next week

with a great deal of uncertainty. We're beginning to

firm up our ideas and we'll come to that in due course.

First of all, I speak with some certainty about Wednesday,

where we're expecting to see quite a cold, frosty start to the day

right through the heart of the British Isles.

Little bit further to the south and east, more cloud here overnight,

the odd bit of rain through the day keeping the temperatures up.

And away towards the north-west, eventually more cloud

and wind and rain coming in from the Atlantic.

But where we had that frosty start

I think we'll keep much of that sunshine for much of the day.

Not doing much for the temperatures,

but a complete contrast to what many of you suffered

during the course of Tuesday. Through Wednesday night,

we'll just push those frontal systems ever-further

towards the south and east.

At least all of that cloud tied in with those fronts

is going to help to keep the temperatures up,

so there won't be any scraping of car windscreens

as you start the new day on Thursday.

There are those frontal systems. They'll take time

to take their thickest cloud away towards the near Continent.

Notice the number of isobars there,

particularly across the northern half of Scotland.

That's going to be a gale of wind coming in from the west,

so a relatively mild direction.

And once the fronts have taken their rain away towards the near Continent

nota bad day following on behind. Yes, there'll be some

really blustery and squally showers across the north,

but elsewhere, little bit of brightness come the afternoon.

Look at this. The temperatures in many locations

will in fact be in double figures - not too bad for the time of year.

So here we go into Friday.

Just notice those isobars beginning to clock around a little bit more

towards the north-west, importing slightly fresher air,

so a brighter day, perhaps, on Friday,

but the temperatures beginning to suffer as a consequence,

certainly across northern parts. And here that frontal system still

lurking close by to the southern counties of England and Wales.

Overnight, this is a pulse of really tropical air

coming down and across the southern counties of England and Wales,

and that not a million miles away as we start the weekend.

But many of us, for the bulk of the weekend,

will be in something a good deal fresher than

something coming from the Tropics, that's for sure.

Because we'll end up with a north-westerly wind

sweeping its way right down and across the country.

So the weekend in a nutshell? Bright and breezy, certainly.

There will be some showers in the mix,

and it will feel decidedly colder than the middle part of the week,

especially so on Sunday, and you'll see why in just a second.

So here is Saturday. Still a fair amount of cloud close by

to those frontal systems in the south.

There, that cold north-westerly just screaming its way

down across central and eastern parts of the British Isles.

Again, notice the number of isobars there.

But the high pressure just toppling in from the Atlantic,

tending to settle things in the west.

I think it's going to be a really blustery, raw sort of day

through the Northern Isles, down the east coast

and across the rigs as well. Look at that -

top temperatures on the day, despite the sunshine, 7, 8 or 9 degrees.

As we get into the start of next week,

the major players are beginning to show their hand.

This high pressure is going to try to dominate the British Isles

but not quite doing enough to keep those frontal systems at bay.

Sometimes they'll be tied in with the low-pressure systems

which will try and come in towards the British Isles,

but the high will be doing its stuff

keeping those lows primarily towards northern parts of the British Isles

where we're going to see the bulk of the unsettled weather.

Further south, not wall-to-wall sunshine,

but much more settled fare

and maybe some chilly nights to come. Goodnight.