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Hello. The aftermath of the wintry weather | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
still lingers across the British Isles, | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
but the thaw is now in progress, | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
and will extend further north as the days go by, | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
many of us returning to average temperatures in the days ahead - | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
but it will still stay unsettled, | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
and there is still some snow in the forecast for Scotland. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
The reason for the change in type of our weather - | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
instead of the high pressure and the Beast from the East, | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
we now have a low pressure towards the south-west. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
Still pulling quite chilly air in on its northern flank, | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
but that area is now being re-circulated around the low, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
pulled across warmer waters of the Atlantic, and modified, | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
so, by the time it comes in to the south of the British Isles, | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
it's just, oh, so much kinder. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:40 | |
That cold nothing like what we had in the week just gone, | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
and, in fact, as I said, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:45 | |
the temperatures gradually getting close to average values. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
On Monday, though, the low will push some quite heavy rain | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
into the south-west of England, Wales | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
and eventually towards the Midlands. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:53 | |
That could give some quite rapid thawing, | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
and result in some flooding issues. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
Sunshine for many - | 0:00:57 | 0:00:58 | |
still, though, some wintry showers across Scotland, | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
but much milder here. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:02 | |
5 degrees for Edinburgh. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
Then, overnight, Monday into Tuesday, | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
we continue with our area of low pressure. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
Quite a flabby low - | 0:01:09 | 0:01:10 | |
that means nothing too significant in the way of wind, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
and that could mean some mist and fog developing | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
across the southern half of the British Isles. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
Meanwhile, it will push this front further north into Scotland, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
perhaps bringing some rain for Northern Ireland briefly on Tuesday, | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
but, with a bit of intensity, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:23 | |
we could again see some significant snow, | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
particularly for the higher ground of Scotland. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
At lower levels, | 0:01:27 | 0:01:28 | |
it should mostly be a case of rain - | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
but, of course, rain landing on all of that snow, | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
again, could cause an issue with the rapid melt. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
For Wednesday, quite a decent day for much of England and Wales, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
but there will be some showers developing in the forecast, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
and some of those could be pretty punchy. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:42 | |
We could see some hail and thunder | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
and, locally, some intense falls of rain. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
Finally, though, a breather in the weather for Scotland - | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
rain to the north and west, but, for many, some spells of sunshine, | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
and 7 degrees is our forecast high, there, for Edinburgh. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
Here we are looking at Wednesday into Thursday. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
Still that same area of low pressure - | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
just cast your eye a bit further south, though. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
By Thursday, it looks like it could get something just developing | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
on its tail end to the south, | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
a weather front that could bring some heavier rain on Thursday | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
into southernmost reaches of the British Isles. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
We could also see some showers across Northern Ireland | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
and the north-west of England, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:14 | |
and they could still be a little bit wintry. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
We still have that cold air close by, | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
so it could, with a bit of intensity, | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
turn those showers somewhat wintry. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:22 | |
So, that's Thursday. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
Then, for Friday, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:25 | |
it looks like the low will throw another front our way, | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
with a risk of some snow across the higher ground of Wales | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
and perhaps the Midlands - | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
some heavy rain pushing in further south. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
By the time we get later on in the period, though, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
that's when our uncertainty starts to come into our forecast. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
It certainly looks like it will stay unsettled, | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
but it's all down to the jet stream, and, later on in the week, | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
it looks like we're going to get | 0:02:44 | 0:02:45 | |
quite a big buckle in the jet stream. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
It looks like the axis of the jet stream, in fact, | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
will push right the way across the British Isles, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
and, if it does that, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:52 | |
it could actually feed some pretty mild air in to us from the south - | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
but that, I'm afraid, is only one solution. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
That's possibly the more favoured one, of the two, at the moment, | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
but we may just see that that dip in the jet stream | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
isn't quite so extreme, so it may be that it's south-western Europe | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
that benefits from the milder air later on next week. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
As I said, some uncertainty in that element of the forecast, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
so it will be worth staying tuned as we get closer to the time. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
Further ahead, though, the outlook relatively similar. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
Staying unsettled, more wind and rain to come, | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
and still that risk of some snow for Scotland. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
Worth staying tuned. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:25 |