21/01/2018 Weather for the Week Ahead

Hello, there. This weekend's weather is looking very disappointing

for many. Very wintry conditions,

again with some of the hazards of snow and ice

and for many central, southern areas,

it was a pretty disappointing Saturday.

But glorious conditions across Scotland, albeit very cold.

Further south, though, we had a persistent weather front

which brought outbreaks of rain, low cloud

and there was further sleet and snow,

certainly over the higher ground. Now, just a peak into next week.

It looks like we're going to lose this cold air that we've had

for quite a while and see a return to the mild southwesterlies

which will be with us for much of the new working week.

But it looks like things may turn a little bit

unsettled around the middle part of the week,

so I'll show you towards the end of this bulletin.

Let's take a look at Sunday now

and it looks like being another unsettled one,

a band of rain spreading in from the west through the morning.

It will continue its journey eastwards.

There'll be some sleet and snow on its leading edge,

across far parts of the south east, through the midlands,

certainly across the Pennines and into towards Scotland,

where it will feel cold and raw here all day.

Signs of that milder air making in-roads across the south-west

but here there will be some pretty heavy rain at times.

So that weather system will clear through on Sunday and we start

to pick up the Atlantic westerlies introducing that milder air.

Brief ridge of high pressure moves in for Monday,

so things will settle down.

We'll lose the rain across the south-east

and across the north of the country and then it's a breezy day.

Westerly winds feeding in a few showers across western hills.

There'll be some good breaks in the clouds in between the showers,

with some sunny spells,

and it will feel that little bit milder across the board.

Double figure values across the south.

As we head on towards Tuesday, the winds veer to a more

south-westerly across the country, always a pretty warm direction.

It will feed a lot of moisture, a lot of cloud across southern

and western areas, particularly over hills

and coasts have some low cloud.

But given any brightness through central

and eastern parts it will feel very mild indeed.

In fact, Tuesday's probably looking like being the mildest

day of the week, with temperatures for most of us in double figures.

Now, as he head on towards the middle part of the week,

I think there's signs of something a bit more unsettled

moving in around this area of low pressure.

It's this feature here, a secondary low,

which could bring a spell of wetter

and windier weather to our shores during the course of Wednesday.

Another pretty mild day but it looks like, as that feature runs in,

the winds will pick up, reach gale force in places.

Some pretty heavy rain for a time for England and Wales

before moving on in towards Scotland and Northern Ireland.

As that pulls away,

though, it allows northerly winds to move in to the northern

half of the country, so here turning a little bit cooler on Thursday.

Still fairly mild in the south but quite blustery,

with sunshine and showers.

Now, as we head on in towards Friday,

that area of low pressure eventually clears away

but it does open the floodgates to a more northerly through Friday,

so it looks like temperatures across the board a touch cooler.

There are temperatures back in to single figures,

although not as cold as what we have seen of late.

But there should be some sunshine around too

and those winds generally light.

But it's a flip-flopping situation

as we head on in towards the weekend.

It looks like another plume of milder air will make

in-roads from the south-west.

So it's quite a mixed week but one thing's for sure -

it's certainly going to be much milder than it has been of late

but Tuesday perhaps looking like being the mildest day of the week.

And then around the middle part of the week it turns more

unsettled with spells of rain, heavy at times.

Quite windy too, with a risk of gales and, as I showed you,

it'll turn a little bit cooler for a while before again turning

milder as we head on in to the new weekend. So that's how it's looking.

Bye for now.