17/12/2017 Weather for the Week Ahead

I'm just going to give you our latest

thoughts on how the weather is going to pan out.

We'll do that in some detail over the next few days.

Then as we push towards that all-important Christmas period

then I'll give you some of the

trends as we see them at the moment.

Looking pretty Christmas-y in some locations at the moment.

The vestiges of what fell last weekend for the most part

still there across Wales and the Midlands.

But a little bit further south than that no great complaints

coming out of Guernsey.

Saturday was a glorious day but there is a change on the way.

It's there from the word go in Scotland, Northern Ireland

and increasingly through the western

side of England down through Wales.

And through the day will push the cloud and wind

and rain ever further east.

But that allows Scotland and Northern Ireland to see

a little bit of sunshine before the day is done.

And a sign of slightly milder conditions trying to

get into most parts of the British Isles.

Although it may not seem that way across East Anglia.

Through the evening and overnight we'll drag that weather front

ever further towards the near continent.

Following behind a ridge of high pressure clearing the skies

and allowing the temperatures to dip away.

I suspect these will be some of the early values as you wake

up on Monday morning. Even in the south it may be a good deal

cooler and fresher than that.

That's Sunday into Monday is the last of the cold air

I think we'll see for a little

while because away to the west is where we're going to be

looking for our weather over the next few days or so.

There's a lot of relatively mild air.

Towards the east bright and crisp but as the day goes on we'll

fill in the cloud across these western areas.

Some of those western spots benefiting straight

away from that milder air.

Pushing the temperatures to 10-11 degrees.

In the first half of the week a lot of dry weather around.

Because of what I've already shown you it will be on the mild side

compared to where some of you have been.

But it will be at the expense of not a lot of sunshine

and quite a bit of cloud.

You see what it's doing for the temperatures,

many more getting closer to the

promised land of double figures.

But as we move from Tuesday on into Wednesday first

signs of a cold weather front

working its way slowly

but surely down and across the British Isles.

It will bring with it the chance of some rain

and I think it will be rain rather than snow.

Still that mild air sits ahead of it primarily.

First signs of the temperatures wanting to dip

away across the northern areas as you become more

dominated by an area of high pressure.

A lot of dry weather.

But it does mean we're going to cool things off relatively speaking

from those lofty heights of a lot of double figures we'll be back

towards upper end single figures as

we get towards the end of the week.

For that we have to thank the fact

that we're still running

the air between the high

pressure in the south

and low pressure further north.

That sets us up with a westerly or south-westerly,

a track that takes over mild waters in the Atlantic.

No signs of a beast from the east bringing in some Siberian chill.

Towards Christmas itself we suspect the high pressure will be

there or there abouts across the south but it may slip away

and that could open the door to a succession of lows.

Some of these could be quite deep

so that offers the prospect of some wet and windy fare

just as we get on towards Christmas but mainly mild, could be cooler

in the north for a time but as I say, potentially for some,

wet and windy.