25/01/2018 Weather for the Week Ahead

Time to update you on the longer term prospects

right across the British Isles.

Some certainty about the next five or six days and then there is

a degree about how we take things forward into the heart of next week.

New day, new low pressure.

Not with the same depth and

intensity we saw from Storm Georgina

but it will act as the focus for quite a bit of shower activity.

Northern Ireland with a low close by will be at the very

heart of those showers

and then a raft of showers will work their way into the southern

part of Scotland and widely across the western side of England

and Wales for the mid part of the afternoon.

Separate showers getting into the Northern

and Western Isles north of mainland Scotland.

And then a drier and brighter interlude

until we pick up on that rather showery theme I was describing.

Southern parts of Scotland, the north and west of England,

much of Wales too seeing more than your fair share of showers.

The best of the sunshine for England perhaps to the

East Midlands, Lincolnshire towards East Anglia.

One or two showers running into Kent and Sussex.

A fresher feel to the day than was the case at the start of the week.

By Friday we reinforce that fresher feel

because the breezes will be coming down from the north and north-west.

On what will be essentially a lovely day.

Cool start and not the warmest of days despite all that sunshine.

Still a peppering of showers along the eastern shores

and late on we'll fill in the cloud with some rain

likely from a weakening frontal system which is the forerunner

of something a little more active just in time for the weekend

for western areas.

The east tending to be that little bit drier for the greater

part of the day. Some progress on this frontal system.

The rain in southern portions lighter and patchier

but many of us getting back towards double figures.

I think that will be the trend for much of the weekend.

By Sunday this run of mild air is coming up

and around this high pressure and up and across Britain.

Moisture laden, close to that weather front there will be

more wind and rain but many of us a little sunshine but a lot of cloud.

A high of 11, 12, possibly even 13.

Not a lot of difference as I take you from Sunday to Monday,

certainly for the southern portions of Britain.

But the weather front comes that bit further south

and that's important if you happen to be on its northern flank

because brighter skies yes,

but the temperatures taking a little bit of a dip.

The mildest air near to or to the south of that front.

This is where it gets murky with regard to specific detail

but we think there is a trend to push that cooler regime

further south but by the middle

part of the week there are signs

that high pressure will try to dominate

the weather across the southern parts of Britain.

But that will keep the door open for a succession of low pressures

to bring wet and windy weather across the northern half of Britain.

Further ahead again we suspect that will be a blip

because we'll push the high pressure further up the western

side of Britain, but that will allow a north-easterly run of winds

to be established and that is not a warm direction.

So driest in the south, some mist and fog around, perhaps some frost.

Wet and windy with lows coming in across the north

but there is a deal of uncertainty about all of that.