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10 Day trend – Blame it on the jet stream 05/06/19
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14/10/2024
It’s a wet start to summer – but how long will it last? Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern has the 10 Day Trend.
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Hello and welcome to the Met Office 10 day trend. I'm not going to sugar coat it this
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week, it's the beginning of summer but over the next 10 days or so there's going to be
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an awful lot of rain. Different flavours of rain, some persistent rain, some showers of
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rain but there will be plenty of wet weather out there. Of course some places need the
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rain but it will also be cooler than average, it's going to be unpleasant at times and sometimes
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windy. There will be some brighter interludes, of course it doesn't rain all the time everywhere
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in the UK so sunny spells occasionally but they'll be short lived because the jet stream
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is well to the south of the UK at the moment. This time last year it was well to the north
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of the UK but now we're on the cool and unsettled side of the jet stream. The jet stream of
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course acts as a conveyor belt for areas of low pressure and weather fronts and you can
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see over the next five days or so it churns up these systems from the west. It brings
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them in via the south and in the meantime they tend to pick up areas of higher humidity
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from the near continent and as those higher humidities mix with these weather systems
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well they tend to come loaded with copious amounts of wet weather and even some thundery
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outbreaks. In between the weather fronts there will also be some showers, for example on
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Thursday we'll have a weather front close to the north east of Scotland, a lot of cloud
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for much of Scotland, Northern Ireland, showers but more persistent wet weather in the far
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north east. England and Wales, brighter, there will be some sunshine, 20 degrees or
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so in that sunshine but heavy downpours also coming through with quite a lot of frequency.
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Now for Thursday our attention turns to this area of low pressure which is in that unusually
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deep area of low pressure for the time of year, so much so that the Spanish named it
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Storm Miguel, it does bring strong winds to the Iberian Peninsula, the Bay of Biscay into
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western France during Friday and then that wet and windy weather pushes into much of
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England and Wales as we begin Friday. You can see this area of brighter colours moving
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north across England and Wales and it looks likely that northern England, parts of Wales,
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western parts of England will see 20 to 40 millimetres widely and in some of the wetter
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spots 60 millimetres plus. So a wet day to come on Friday, the winds picking up through
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the day as well, feeling unpleasant, Scotland and Northern Ireland a much brighter day to
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come, some sunshine, one or two showers but actually 18 Celsius in the north of Scotland
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ahead of that wet weather. But it is moving north so Scotland and Northern Ireland gets
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England and Wales wet weather later Friday and the winds pick up as that rain clears
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through along the English Channel, gales possible in exposed spots. A blustery day then to come
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on Saturday for England and Wales, strengthening breeze and heavy frequent showers so it's
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not good for any outdoor activities planned on Saturday, pretty windy day for the beginning
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of June. Scotland and Northern Ireland, fair no better really, it's a wet day here with
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outbreaks of rain persisting throughout much of the day on and off in places but a lot
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of rain about. So feeling unpleasant in the rain to the north, where we get a break from
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the wind and where we get some sunshine, high teens possible, not feeling very pleasant
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for the time of year at all. Now later Saturday that weather system clears north, a gap then
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before another one comes up from the south later on Sunday. In this gap there will be
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some sunshine emerging on Sunday in many places and it will feel pleasant in that sunshine
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but further heavy downpours, thunder and hail perhaps mixed in with some of the livelier
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showers across much of the country. And then clouding skies and outbreaks of rain pushing
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in as we end the weekend across southern parts of Britain. Some uncertainty about this feature
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because of course we're a few days out. Suffice to say that it is likely to bring some rain
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close to the south into the start of next week. And then we end up with a stubborn pattern
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into next week and a lot of uncertainty actually. It looks likely that the jet stream will still
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generally be directed to the south of Britain and it looks likely that low pressure will
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be close to the south east of the UK, high pressure tries to build in from the north.
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What does that mean? Well if that were to happen, and it is very uncertain at the moment
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in terms of the weather patterns for next week, but if that happened then we can expect
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drier and more settled weather to push into the north west of the country but more mixed
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weather in the south at times. With low pressure close by over the near continent, well there's
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always the chance of rain or showers and also the chance that we'll end up mixing with higher
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humidities to bring a different feel to the weather as well. So a lot of uncertainty over
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the next ten days, suffice to say we've got enough weather to talk about over the next
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five days and enough rain to think about between now and next week. So good news for the gardens,
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bad news for any outdoor activities, stay up to date right here at the Met Office and
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you can find those updates via the Met Office social media channels. Bye bye.
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