11/01/2018 Weather for the Week Ahead


11/01/2018

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Hello, thanks for joining me.

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We'll be giving you a fair amount of detail

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on how we expect to see the weather developing

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right across the British Isles over the next few days,

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and that will take us through the weekend

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and into the first part of next week.

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Then we'll try and give you some themes

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about what happens next week.

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In the shorter term,

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fairly quiet spell of weather at the moment,

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a little weak ridge of high pressure, there,

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following in behind an old weather front

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that was all over the eastern side

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of the British Isles on Wednesday,

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still producing enough cloud

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for the odd bit and piece of rain, here.

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The main story, first up, though,

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across many western areas is one of fog,

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and some of that fog

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may well linger on through the day -

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but, if you manage to get rid of that,

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it is in the west

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that you're more likely to see

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the better chance of sunshine.

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Temperatures, though,

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not really responding to that -

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particularly where you hold on to the fog

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you could be down 2, 3, 4 degrees

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either in the west or in the east,

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close by to that old front.

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That old front,

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there's still enough about it

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still to be producing the odd spot of drizzle

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as we get on through Thursday night

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into the first part of Friday.

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Out towards the west, again,

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it's a combination of pretty chilly fare

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and that prospect of some fog, as well.

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Those quiet conditions look set to stay on

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into the first part of Friday, certainly,

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although we'll begin to see

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something of a change moving in

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towards the west as, initially,

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it's the breeze that picks up,

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so, I don't think Northern Ireland

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will see much of a problem with fog

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on Friday morning.

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It could still be an issue for other parts,

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but, again, it's a cloudy day,

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the odd spot of rain,

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where the cloud thickens up

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for any length of time.

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Hints of brightness, yes,

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but that's for the favoured few

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rather than for the many.

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Even on into the weekend,

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this area of low pressure

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is trying to throw that frontal system

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in towards British Isles,

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but making heavy weather of it,

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if you'll forgive the pun,

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simply because it's running into the high pressure

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dominant over Europe.

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So, the front, if you happen to get it,

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stays with you for the greater part of the day,

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and that means many western parts,

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and especially through Northern Ireland,

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and here we are, as far ahead as Sunday,

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and that weather front rather dying a death.

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Here, you'll have to join the dots

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through central and eastern parts.

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That's the remnants of that front.

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Something a good deal more active

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coming in from the Atlantic

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producing very much more wet and very much more windy weather -

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and here comes that weather front.

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Gradually, we suspect, at this range -

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and it is a suspicion -

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working its way across the British Isles.

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I think that's fairly well nailed on,

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but my suspicions are raised

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about just how quickly it's going to get away

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from the eastern side of the British Isles.

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Following on behind,

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there are brighter skies,

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but, my word, I think the temperatures

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are going to begin to dip away,

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and that's because we will find ourselves

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in the first part of next week

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on the cold side of the jet stream.

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You'll see that there is mild air to be had,

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but, my word, it's away, away down

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towards the south-west of the British Isles,

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and the contrast is such

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between the colder air to the north

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and the milder air to the south

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that there will be a lot of wind generated,

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and there will be westerlies,

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and they'll rattle in a number of showers.

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Some of those really quite squally, thundery,

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and they'll be snowy on the higher ground.

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As we move towards the end of the week,

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so the low pressure moves its station

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from the north-west of us out towards the east,

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high pressure builds out towards the west,

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and that generates

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something of a north to north-westerly wind

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down and across all parts of the British Isles.

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Now, that orientation

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is pretty short-lived.

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I think what we have to work on

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for the greater part of that week

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is that it'll be often windy,

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really quite wintry, those showers,

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across the northern half of the British Isles,

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and then, with that change in orientation

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to the north,

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a bit of a short, sharp shock

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of colder weather to many parts.

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