26/11/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello. It's time for our extended look at the weather,

and we're still going to be talking about a lot of cold air.

But in the short term, actually, we do have something a little

milder running its way across the British Isles.

It is relative, but nonetheless

this weather system will mean a frost-free night

and a very different-looking start to Monday after

the days of blue sky and sunshine through the weekend - wet

and windy conditions, particularly to the south first thing.

Brightening behind that weather front into a mixture of sunshine

and showers for Monday daytime, a westerly or north-westerly wind, so

just feeling that little bit milder

than the northerly we've had through the weekend.

Still, though, a chance of some wintry showers across Scotland

and perhaps a few for the Welsh mountains.

The mild air, though, short-lived.

Once that weather system gets away to the south,

we yet again open the floodgates to let the air in from the Arctic,

and that's where we're going to keep feeding our air in from

for this week, basically. So, here's Tuesday.

A frosty start, a cold wind,

particularly along our North Sea coast,

and wintry showers I think particularly across the North York

Moors, also across the Highlands and the Grampians again.

Can't rule out some for Pembrokeshire

and the south-west of England, either.

A lot of sunshine around, though, for the majority, but a cold feel,

highs of five to seven, feeling lower than that thanks to the wind.

And through Tuesday into Wednesday, we keep this area of high pressure

to the west, the low to the east,

and it's just the slight shifts in orientation in the next few

days that will govern where we get the strongest of the winds

and the real focus of the showers.

For Wednesday, again it looks like it'll be the east coast that picks

up the lion's share of the showers, perhaps a little drier further west.

Still a lot of sunshine around on the whole,

but again another chilly day.

And then we go into another chilly night Wednesday into Thursday.

Just keeping a close eye on the North Sea -

we may see a little area of low pressure developing in here, and

that could mean some particularly strong

winds across the eastern side of England on Thursday

and a real focus of showers across Lincolnshire and into East Anglia.

Still a chance, though, of some for Pembrokeshire and the south-west,

too, but again we're still dominated by a lot of fine if chilly weather.

A subtle change Thursday into Friday. Watch closely.

This area of high pressure just tips a little bit

more across the British Isles and starts to introduce this front, and

that really not bringing anything in the way of meaningful rain,

I think, on Friday, but it will mean a lot more cloud

and perhaps some just slightly less cold air arriving,

the wind coming just slightly more from a north-westerly direction.

Temperatures, though, still six, seven, eight degrees,

so it's more about the way it'll feel, really,

than how things will significantly change.

For the weekend, the high does, though, push its way a little bit

further eastwards once again, and we do start to pull in some

slightly milder air. Again, it is all relative.

But next weekend looks like we will see our temperatures coming up,

if only briefly, thanks to that high shifting further south

and allowing us to feed the air in basically via the Atlantic

and then in from the north, so it will, as I said, be

relatively mild in comparison to the cold Arctic air we've had recently.

But then on into the following week, high pressure comes north again,

the low tucks into the east and it looks like we'll be

back into that northerly air stream and back where we started.

So in terms of the longer-term outlook,

for next weekend I think something a little bit milder than

the week ahead, but then the return of Arctic air,

and it is going to feel particularly cold thanks to the biting wind.