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Week Ahead – Staying unsettled? 12/08/19
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14/10/2024
Following the wind and rain many places experienced during the weekend, will the weather remain unsettled this week? Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern has the forecast.
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Hello, and welcome to the Met Office forecast for the week ahead. It might be August, but
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it's going to feel more like autumn at times this week. Once again, it's a week in which
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we'll see showers at times, followed by bouts of wet weather, followed by further showers,
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and it will always be on the cool side. Now, not everyone likes the heat, but if you don't
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appreciate this kind of weather when you are on your summer holidays, for example, and
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you're fed up with the rainfall, don't blame me, blame the jet stream. That fast-flowing
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current of air high in the sky is currently to the south of the UK, allowing cool air
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in from the north, a similar pattern to recent August, it has to be said. And that jet stream,
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it's going to act like a conveyor belt, carrying in low pressure after low pressure through
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the next few days. The jet stream moving in from the Atlantic and picking up these areas
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of low pressure, developing them and bringing spells of rain, and at times, strengthening
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winds. This is Saturday's weather chart, and you can see low pressure centred over the
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UK. Still some question marks about this low, which I'll go into more in a moment, but certainly
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it does look like the cool, changeable weather is here to stay. A cool start to Tuesday,
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but don't despair, because over the next few days there will be some sunshine in between
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the showers, and you can see plenty of sunshine for eastern Britain at first on Tuesday, followed
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by showers developing, and then after a showery start in the west, the weather settles down.
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Wales in the south-west sees drier and brighter conditions by the end of the afternoon. Showers
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never too far away in most places though, and it will stay on the cool side, typically
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18 to 21 Celsius. However, there will be some sunshine on Tuesday, less so on Wednesday
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because this feature will move in from the south-west for Wednesday itself, and the start
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of Wednesday looks very unsettled for Wales and the south-west of England in particular.
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Strengthening winds, very wet weather for south Wales and the south-west of England
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at first, gales then developing across English Channel coasts, and the wet weather moving
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its way north-eastwards across the country, arriving eventually into north-east Scotland.
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After a chilly but bright start here, further west, it's going to be a bit more humid by
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the afternoon, and that humidity could spark some heavy, lively showers, particularly for
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say northern England. So all in all, an unsettled day on Wednesday, more rainfall to come in
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those areas that have seen plenty of it recently. But that low pressure does move away before
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the next low pressure makes an appearance further west. In between, at least on Thursday,
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a ridge of high pressure starts to build in, promising, well, something a little calmer,
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at least in some areas, for a day or so. Has to be said though, it will take some time
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for the showers across central and eastern Britain to die away on Thursday. Further west,
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that's where the brightest and driest weather will be on Thursday itself. Northern Ireland,
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western Scotland, Wales and the south-west, drying up, sunshine coming through, feeling
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pleasant enough, albeit with a fairly brisk breeze for southern parts of Britain. That's
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Thursday. Into Friday, however, well, the weather certainly will start to feel much
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more autumnal again. This depression coming along, it does look like something you'd more
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expect through September and October, but it's a reasonably straightforward feature
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in terms of predicting it. It's just a mature depression. It's gone through its deepening
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phase and it brings a spell of rain, and then strengthening winds for Friday. And that means
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it's a wet start to the day for Scotland, Northern Ireland, western parts of England
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and Wales, and you can see these brighter colours then moving into south Wales, south-west
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England, bringing some heavy rainfall once again here. Strengthening winds as well, and
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after a dry, bright start in the east, it turns wet towards the end of the day. Showers
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following on from the heavy rain further west. So an unsettled day to come on Friday. It's
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not going to be particularly pleasant if you're on your holidays, for example, but it's fairly
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straightforward to predict meteorologically. However, later Friday and into the weekend,
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that's when it becomes more uncertain. It certainly looks likely that this area of low
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pressure is going to dominate things through the weekend, after the heavy rain on Friday
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moves through, and the low pressure sticks around through Saturday and Sunday. However,
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this feature, a little fly in the ointment, adds some uncertainty for the weekend itself
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because some computer models want to push this feature, which is an area of heavy rain
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into northern France. Other computer models want to push it into England and Wales, and
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it's that which leads to some question marks in terms of our weather for the weekend. We're
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certainly likely to have this low pressure over northern Britain, but if this area of
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heavy rain moves northwards and engages with the jet stream and combines with this low,
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it could be very wet and windy indeed, especially across parts of England and Wales for the
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first half of the weekend. But what looks more likely to happen is the heavy rain will
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stay south, affect mainly northern France, and that for the UK itself, we'll see cool
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conditions remaining, blustery showers, but also some sunny spells in between the showers,
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and the weather not quite as bad as it was last weekend. Bear in mind, though, this is
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a few days away, and there is that low risk that it will be very wet and windy if that
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feature moves northwards. Instead of hitting northern France, it will hit England and Wales.
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So plenty to look out for over the next few days, plenty to stay up to date with over
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the next few days, and we will, of course, keep you updated right here at the Met Office.
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