01/01/2018 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello there. Storm Dylan made an appearance

on the last day of the year, signalling some very unsettled

weather for the first week of the New Year.

Dominated by low pressure on New Year's Day,

this is actually the storm which is spinning its way towards France,

could bring some damaging winds here.

We're very much just on the edge of that, it's more likely to be a spell

of rain that runs its way eastwards across southern parts of England

and Wales, mainly in the morning, then some sunshine.

But then more showers, gusty winds for Northern Ireland,

pushing across Scotland, down into northern England, Wales,

perhaps into the Midlands by the end of the day.

Snow over the Scottish hills, going to be quite cold here.

Those temperatures are little bit lower than we've seen recently,

but fairly typical for this time of year.

As the showers fade away, the winds drop, temperatures fall away,

it'll be a colder night on Monday night, Tuesday morning.

Maybe some frost in rural areas.

Towards the South West, it won't be as cold, because by morning,

some rain arriving here. So too across Northern Ireland.

And the spell of rain will push eastwards,

some snow over the Pennines briefly, and over the Scottish hills,

before we get sunshine and showers to end the day

on a stronger, westerly wind.

That's a milder wind, so temperatures towards the South West

much higher compared with the North East,

where it's going to be quite cold and wet.

That front out of the way, around the base of that big low pressure,

another weather system comes in, it's going to be bringing

with it some rain and strong-to-gale force winds so overnight.

Into Wednesday, the worst of that clears away.

Stays quite windy, we're going to find showers and sunshine.

Nearer to the centre of the low pressure,

somewhat more organised wet weather coming into

the northwest of Scotland and perhaps across Northern Ireland too.

So, temperatures six degrees, seven degrees. Glasgow and Belfast

as high as 10, also towards London and the South East.

That low pressure is out of the way, we're still left with this

filling low pressure, so that's going to weaken ahead of another

low pressure coming in from the Atlantic - there's a theme here.

We've got a colder start, probably, on Thursday.

Fewer showers around,

But another spell of rain coming in fairly quickly.

That rain can be quite heavy, does tend to split apart.

One dose of heavy rain heading into the near constant,

then we're left with this area of low pressure.

This will hang around for a few days.

That's Friday, and we're dominated by low pressure.

This band of rain sitting towards the North East, into Scotland,

really wet and cold in the wind here.

Strong winds around the low will bring wetter weather

across Northern Ireland,

back over the Irish Sea into western parts of England and Wales.

This is how we end the week, and we start the new weekend.

Low pressure across the UK, windy and wet.

But things will change.

High-pressure up towards Iceland, that looks like,

in the longer term, it will drift across to Scandinavia.

At the same time, our low pressure moves into the near continent,

allowing us to get an easterly wind, which means, basically,

it'll turned much colder.

We're on the colder side of the jet, which is

certainly buckling in the outlook, close to the UK.

However, there is a stronger surge of winds

coming from the Atlantic, which may break down that colder

block of air and turn things more unsettled from the Atlantic.

That transition is going to be very tricky.

Basically, it's going to turn much colder for the outlook.

Probably going to turn drier as well,

but if we get these Atlantic winds coming in eventually,

then in that cold air there is the threat of some significant snow.

All to play for.