16/11/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. It's time to find out what the weather's up to over the next

few days, and in the short term, we're fairly confident,

as is often the case,

but when it comes to around about Sunday time, that period,

that's when the confidence goes downhill a little bit.

In the short term, through the early hours of Thursday,

there's still a lot of mist and murk around.

You can see a lot of cloud on the satellite picture here.

But this area of cloud here, that's a cold front, and that cold front

will be introducing a shot of colder air over the next 24 hours or so.

And this process is going to be happening through the early

hours of Thursday. Here's our cold front.

The rain marches into Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Behind it, Atlantic winds drag in that polar air, so you can see

temperatures dipping down to six there in Glasgow.

Still relatively mild across the south, around ten degrees.

So, let's have a look at the weather on Thursday morning.

In the south, it's still a mild start,

temperatures around double figures.

You can see ten degrees there in London, 11 in Southampton.

Still a little bit of drizzle around.

And then we get to around about the north-west of England,

around the Lake District here and into Newcastle.

This is where the cold front is, and the other side of that

there's quite a marked drop in the temperature.

The winds are quite strong, as well,

possibly up to gale force there, and a number of showers

moving through parts of north-western Scotland.

So, our front makes its journey further southwards during the course

of Thursday, bringing a spell of rain for some of us,

but really, by the end of the day,

the northern two thirds of the country are in that crisp,

cold air, whereas in the south it's still relatively mild.

And then eventually, Thursday night into Friday,

that cold front moves out of the way.

There's another little one affecting Scotland,

but the main message is the high pressure builds,

so across most parts of the country it starts off on a sunny note.

In fact, Friday's going to be a beautiful day,

apart from Scotland, where you'll have showers.

This little mini cold front moves through

and brings some blustery showers, maybe even wintry across the hills.

Friday night is expected to be clear, which means that

Saturday morning is going to be frosty, particularly out of town.

There'll be a lot of dry and bright weather around,

apart from a few showers maybe closer towards the east,

and those temperatures typically between seven and ten degrees.

And then Saturday, after a relatively decent day, comes Sunday.

This low pressure starts marching in, we think.

It looks like rain will eventually reach western areas

sometime on Sunday, but many central and eastern areas

may actually get away with a dry day.

It's the timing that's proving a little bit tricky with that rain,

but eventually, what will happen with this low here,

later on Sunday it moves through. So, this is Sunday night.

You can see most of us get a bit of rain.

And then Monday, that rain clears out of the way.

So on Monday we're in-between weather systems here,

so we think that Monday should be a fairly decent day.

So once again it's that dodgy period between Sunday

and Monday - we're not entirely sure when the rain clears through.

And then beyond that, the thinking is that another low pressure

might move in, so about Wednesday time,

and it's going to be a typical picture,

drawing up slightly milder air from the south,

and then behind the back side of this low we'll see colder,

again polar air coming in,

so a very typical scenario for this time of the year.

So the vague message is for next week

chilly and blustery across the north, which is

what you'd expect this time of year, and just that little bit

milder and perhaps wetter, given the

lows go further south, in the south. Bye-bye.