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10 Day trend - Storm Dennis, then what? 12/02/20
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14/10/2024
Storm Dennis hits the UK this weekend, bringing several days of wind and rain to much of the UK. How much longer can it stay unsettled? Met Office Meteorologist Aidan McGivern has the 10 Day Trend.
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Hello and welcome to the Met Office 10-day trend. The volatile, boisterous British weather
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continues for the time being and over the next 10 days, little sign of a significant
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let-up in conditions. There'll be more wind and rain with a particular focus on Storm
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Dennis through Saturday to Monday. Then it turns less stormy next week but there'll still
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be unsettled weather around. There's a number of low-pressure systems lined up to arrive
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over the next few days. There's one here to come in for Thursday, one here to come in
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on Friday. Those are not Storm Dennis. Storm Dennis is third in the queue, still just a
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tiny small-scale feature forming off the coast of the US on Wednesday. Our focus in the immediate
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term is this low which moves in on Wednesday night and pushes in against very cold air
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with minus 12 degrees possible across northern Scotland, bringing mild air to the rest of
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the country but also wind and rain gales around southern and western coasts, blustery
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showers and as the rain pushes into southern Scotland, northern England, northern Ireland,
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first thing Thursday, risk of snow over the higher ground, particularly for parts of southern
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Scotland. A few centimetres could cause disruption first part of the day. It all eases away.
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Cold but bright for northern Scotland, northern Ireland eventually. Cold and grey for southern
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Scotland, north-east England. Blustery showers elsewhere, some lively downpours especially
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around south-western districts, mild in the south, 10 or 11 Celsius. Fast forward to Friday,
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a cold bright start for many, doesn't last long, turns cloudy through the day. Wind and
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rain return to north-western and eventually western parts of the country. Some snow over
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the Scottish mountains but mainly this is a rain event and risk of flooding over the
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higher ground of southern Scotland in particular because of the rainfall and some snow melt.
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So it turns unsettled from the west through Friday. As I say, this is the second area
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of low pressure and it's still not Storm Dennis. That moves through, bringing some rain to
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southern parts of the country as we end the working week. By this stage, Storm Dennis
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is developing quite significantly, powered along by a very strong jet stream. You can
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see the dark colours there, the straight line jet stream firing it towards the UK and it
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deepens into a particularly deep area of low pressure, perhaps around 915 millibars which
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isn't particularly common in the Atlantic. And look how long it sticks around for. This
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is Saturday into Sunday, Storm Dennis still to the north of the UK. And through later
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Sunday into Monday, Storm Dennis hanging around like a bad smell and it's still with us as
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we start next week. The close ice bars through Saturday, Sunday and Monday, bringing strong
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winds for three days, if not slightly longer. So let's look at the winds. Now there are
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some differences when you compare Storm Dennis this weekend with Storm Ciara last weekend.
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The winds will still be strong widely across the country as we start off the weekend. Weather
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warnings in force for England, Wales, southern Scotland where the winds will be strongest
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during Saturday. Risk of gusts inland of 50 miles an hour and around exposed coasts of
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60, perhaps 70 miles an hour could cause disruption. But those winds are a notch down compared to
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Storm Ciara of last weekend. So don't expect an exact repeat of last weekend across England
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and Wales. Now through Sunday, our attention turns a bit more to parts of northwest Scotland
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into Northern Ireland where by now there's a wind warning because tight ice bars there
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as Storm Dennis starts to swing round and approach from the northwest. Now some uncertainty
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by this stage and into Monday about exactly how tight these ice bars will be and whether
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there are small scale low pressure systems that develop as well to bring an even stronger
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swathe of winds into parts of say the central belt of Scotland. And it's by Monday that
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the strongest winds will be across northern parts of the UK, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Elsewhere the winds beginning to ease, but essentially it's windy for three days. Risk
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of gales, risk of disruption. But the rain is of particular concern as well with Storm
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Dennis. Now the wet weather sets in across all parts on Saturday. The heaviest rain will
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be over western hills, some let up there with blustery showers for northern areas through
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Saturday night. But by Sunday another swathe of heavy rainfall potentially pushes back
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into much of England and Wales. And it's over the higher ground of western Scotland, western
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parts of England as well as Wales where the wettest weather will be. Falling onto saturated
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ground 40 mils widely, 80 mils plus over the higher ground. Risk of flooding because of
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the persistence and the heaviness of that rainfall Saturday through to Sunday. So wet
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and windy weekend, multitude of things going on with the weather. It's not going to be
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a repeat of Storm Ciara but nevertheless some disruption is likely due to the winds and
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of course that risk of flooding. Any signs of the weather settling down at all? Well
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once Dennis moves away, middle of next week, high pressure starts to ridge in from the
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south but only slightly. We're still likely to see these tight isobars, we're still likely
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to see showers through Wednesday and the start of Thursday, especially across western areas
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with snow over the hills. So some sunshine, some drier weather for a time, middle of next
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week but another low appears by the end of next week to bring yet more wind and rain.
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So days 7 to 10, sun and showers, drier, slightly quieter interlude, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
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and then yet more wind and rain. But it looks like when that arrives end of next week it
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probably won't be quite as stormy as Ciara or as Dennis. So the unsettled weather continues
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but hopefully a let up in the disruptive conditions through next week. Before that happens of
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course stay up to date with the latest weather forecasts and latest weather warnings and
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the best way to do that is by following the Met Office on social media, heading to the
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website and of course downloading the app because there's an awful lot of weather happening
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during the next few days.
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