04/01/2018 Weather for the Week Ahead

Quite a storm, Tuesday night,

into the early hours of Wednesday across the UK.

The good news is, no storms in the short term -

but let's have a look at those gale force winds.

In fact, storm force winds, there,

in the north of the country.

100mph, Great Dun Fell,

even in West London itself, 73mph -

and in London we had some damage, as well.

Of course, in big cities

we don't often get winds

of that sort of strength,

but a lot of trees falling down

across many parts of the UK.

Masonry falling off some buildings, as well,

so a really dangerous picture across the UK.

Some other spectacular pictures

coming in, as well.

Here's one from Anglesey,

beautiful stormy seas, there,

and in Aberdeenshire,

which wasn't affected by the storm,

a wintry scene, there,

so, Scotland, for a change, in the north,

had much quieter weather.

Remnants of the storm, Storm Eleanor,

across the Baltic at the moment,

just about into Scandinavia.

There's another weather system heading our way

during early Thursday,

and we are expecting the wind to freshen once again

across the south.

There'll be some rain, too,

but nothing of the magnitude

that we've recently had.

So, early on Thursday,

temperatures are generally above freezing

across most of the UK,

and in the far north

and north-east of Scotland, there,

a touch of frost.

Here's a look at the morning on Thursday.

By this stage, the weather front

will have moved through across the south-west,

but brought quite a bit of rain here.

By this stage, we could have seen some flooding.

Very windy - some western and southern coasts,

we are talking about gale force winds

and rough conditions out around the coastline.

You know, after the passage of a storm

it takes a while for the sea

to kind of calm down,

and with the winds picking up once again

with this weather front moving through,

it is going to take time

for the seas to ease a little bit.

So, I think another very blustery day

across western and southern areas,

but nothing like what we've had.

By the end of the afternoon,

the rain is reaching northern parts of England,

nudging into Scotland.

Quite a temperature contrast.

A balmy 13 in the south,

and you can see, in northern Scotland,

there, around about 6 degrees.

Let's have a look at Friday.

A real messy picture -

it looks almost like a Picasso, doesn't it?

Lots of little areas of low pressure,

weather fronts around, as well.

That basically translates

to a changeable day across the UK

from morning onwards. Again, blustery,

a little low pressure spinning around here

across the south-west may give, temporarily,

some gale force winds, as well,

and then, into Saturday, things start to change.

All of that messy weather,

with the fronts and the lows,

slips southwards,

because this high starts to build in -

and we'll also start to see

colder air seeping in from the north,

so, there is a significant change

as we head into the weekend,

from this sort of milder, stormy weather coming

out of the south-west,

we're going to have much colder, calmer weather

coming out of the north -

but, for a time, there could even be

a little bit of wintriness around,

maybe some wintry showers across northern areas,

and a really biting wind,

real significant wind chill, I think,

to come through Saturday and Sunday.

Anybody in the north and east will notice it,

and those easterly winds continue into Monday.

A lot of dry weather, frost,

possibly some morning fog

if the winds die out

during the course of the night -

and this is the pattern that we're going to see

early next week.

So, high pressure here -

this is what the jet stream does,

it sort of goes around the high pressure,

and these lows get stuck,

they can't move through,

because of this high -

and, instead, what we do get

early next week is, perhaps,

colder air seeping in

from northern and eastern parts of Europe.

So, there is a definite change on the way

after this stormy weather.