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10 Day Trend – Thundery breakdown, then what? 24/06/20
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14/10/2024
A thundery breakdown brings an end to this week’s brief burst of heat. But what happens after that? Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern has this week’s 10 Day Trend.
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Hello, and welcome to the Met Office 10 day trend.
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George II apparently said that the British summer consists of three fine days and then
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a thunderstorm.
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And that's certainly the case this week.
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A brief hot spell, then it all goes bang.
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Thursday night into Friday, the thunderstorms clearing the air and allowing more typical
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British summer weather to arrive from the west.
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And that means it will turn cool, changeable, without breaks of rain or showers this weekend
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and throughout next week.
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Actually, not everywhere has seen three fine days.
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Western Scotland and Northern Ireland has seen a wet week so far.
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But on Thursday, the hot sunshine extends right across the UK and temperatures will
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soar as a result.
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Thirty Celsius possible, Glasgow, perhaps the Murray coast as well, widely mid to high
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twenties elsewhere and across the heart of England as well as parts of Wales, 30 plus.
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I think the hotspots will be West Midlands, West Wales, 33 Celsius possible here or even
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34.
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If you don't like the heat, head to the coast.
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There'll be some cooler sea breezes here, but wherever you are, the sun will be really
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strong.
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We've just had the solar, the summer solstice.
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And that means with Thursday's sunshine, well, the sun is about as strong as it gets at this
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time of year with high or very high UV levels across the country.
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So make sure you cover up if you're spending time outdoors and hay fever sufferers take
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note.
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We're looking at high or very high levels of grass pollen as well.
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Another risk comes along later Thursday, and that's because we've got the heat in place
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across Western Europe, but looking at the Atlantic, the jet stream is beginning to make
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inroads.
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In fact, that's dipping just to the west of the UK, it's dipping to the south and it's
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scooping up areas of low pressure and much cooler air.
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And as that cooler air collides with the heat across Western Europe, well, it's all going
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to go bang.
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And on Thursday evening, well, it's across Western parts of the UK where we'll see those
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thunderstorms start to move in.
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Severe thunderstorms, hit and miss, as is always the case with thunderstorms.
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Not everywhere we'll see one, but where they do occur, they could cause issues.
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Now into Friday, it's across Central and Eastern Britain that those thunderstorms move.
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And again, the risk of severe thunderstorms in places.
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That's why the Met Office have issued yellow warnings for Western Britain on Thursday night
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and for Central and Eastern areas for Friday and into the start of the weekend.
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A thundery breakdown is expected with the risk of some very heavy rainfall in a short
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space of time, 50, 60 millimetres in a few hours, and additional hazards of frequent
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lightning, large hail, as well as gusty winds.
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Like I say, not everyone will catch one of these severe thunderstorms, but where they
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do occur, well, they could cause a few issues.
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Once they're out of the way, well, it soon starts to cool off.
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Another hot day in the east on Friday, but by the weekend, westerlies across the country
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and much cooler air.
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Now on Saturdays, there'll still be some heavy showers and thunderstorms about.
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They'll be moved along fairly briskly by the wind, so I don't think they'll cause so many
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issues as Friday's thunderstorms, but some sharp showers around, certainly, mixed with
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some sunshine and a keen breeze.
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On Sunday, I think there'll be some drier weather across southern parts of Britain,
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particularly later in the day, some sunshine even, but it will certainly feel much cooler
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with a breeze coming in from the west and some increasingly persistent wet weather for
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western Scotland, I think, developing through the day and continuing into Monday.
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For the start of next week, well, taking a look at the bigger picture, we've got the
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jet stream in a straight line, more or less, across the Atlantic and heading towards the
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UK, and that means that it will pick up further areas of low pressure and send them our way.
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Now, the jet stream has often been in a weak and fairly flabby setup through spring and
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early summer, but it's not unusual for this time of year, late June, to see that jet stream
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pick up some oomph and for the westerlies to return.
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In fact, climatologist Hubert Lamb called this return of the westerlies back in 1959
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a return of the westerlies because westerlies are the default weather for the UK, not this
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hot sunshine that we've got at the moment.
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What does that mean?
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Here's a map for the middle of next week.
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In fact, this is taken from the Met Office medium range computer model and there's a
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75% chance, according to that model, that this weather pattern will prevail next Thursday.
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That's quite a high percentage chance, looking that far ahead.
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In fact, it's the same weather pattern, more or less, throughout next week with low pressure
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to the west or to the north of the UK, these westerlies bringing breezy, cool and changeable
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weather.
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The weather models are in agreement that that's the kind of setup we can expect through
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to the end of this 10-day period.
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What they all vary on is, of course, where we'll see the showers and rain from day to
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day, but that's always the case looking ahead more than five days or so.
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But the general theme for next week is that it will be much cooler than we are experiencing
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at the moment.
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It will often be breezy and we'll have a mixture of rain or showers.
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Good news for gardeners and farmers, of course.
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Good news for people who don't like the heat.
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But if you do like the heat, make the most of the next day or two because it's not going
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to last.
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Back to normal next week.
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Find much more detail, of course, on the Met Office social media channels.
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