Week ahead – Spring sunshine, will it stick around for the Bank Holiday? - video Dailymotion

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This week brings light winds and sunny spells to most places, with some spots also likely to get a few showers. By the end of the week the weather may well turn cloudier with a greater chance of rain by the weekend. Alex Deakin explains.

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00:00Hello and welcome to your weather for the week ahead from the Met Office.

00:04Now, the week ahead will end in a bank holiday weekend, more on that in just a moment.

00:09But for the next few days, many places will be seeing some sunny spells,

00:13feeling pleasantly warm in the afternoon sunshine as well because we'll have largely light winds.

00:19Those light winds do mean that the mornings could be a little chilly

00:23and also where we see some showers, they'll be quite slow moving and they could again be on the heavy side.

00:29Many places will see, as I say, a fair bit of sunshine this week, thanks to a large area of high pressure.

00:36And notice not many isobars across the chart, that's why the winds are light,

00:40which is also why Tuesday morning could be a little chilly,

00:43but generally it's looking like a fine bright day for most of England and Wales

00:47and the early morning mist and fog will clear away, maybe a little grey in the morning on the coast of East Anglia.

00:53Certainly quite grey in northern Scotland, here it will be a rather drab day with further outbreaks of rain.

00:58A sprinkling of showers over central Scotland, one or two for Northern Ireland,

01:02but as I say, for most of England and Wales, it's fine with sunny spells and temperatures in the afternoon

01:07getting up into the high teens or the low 20s, so feeling pretty pleasant.

01:12Now on Tuesday evening, not a great deal will change, that high pressure is still nearby,

01:17so again, not many isobars on the charts, the winds will be light,

01:20so again Wednesday morning that could start a little fresh with maybe a little bit of mist and fog here and there

01:26and we'll still have thicker cloud over north-east Scotland bringing some rain

01:29and we could just see some of that rain pushing into south-east Scotland and north-east England at times.

01:35One or two showers are possible elsewhere, but for most again, Wednesday, set fair, dry and fine

01:40with temperatures in the mid to high teens and the sunny spells feeling pretty pleasant,

01:45still rather cool though in northern Scotland, only 9 or 10 there in Shetland.

01:50That weather front will maybe linger on Wednesday night, but it should be pulling away by Thursday

01:55and at the same time at the opposite end of the country, a weather front is trying to push in.

02:00That'll be a bit of a change then on Thursday for the south-west of England,

02:04outbreaks of rain edging into Cornwall, perhaps Pembrokeshire too.

02:07It does fizzle out as it moves its way into parts of Wales and threatens Northern Ireland,

02:12but generally it will be cloudier in the west with some showery outbreaks of rain,

02:17probably a drier, brighter day in the north-east and much of eastern England set fair, dry and fine with some sunny spells.

02:23And again, in the sunshine, pleasant enough with temperatures in the high teens,

02:27cooler where it's cloudier in the west.

02:31Now there's more and more uncertainty as we go through Thursday and into Friday.

02:35The weather pattern's really messy, low pressure systems to the north,

02:39high pressure systems to the south and the east.

02:42And again, not a lot of isobars in the charts, there's nothing really moving too quickly,

02:46slow moving bands of cloud with some showery rain dribbling in from the west.

02:52A lot of uncertainty about the timing of the rain as it comes in

02:55and there will be still some dry and bright spells in between.

02:59But overall, it does look as if by the time we get to the end of the working week,

03:04the weather looks more unsettled with more cloud around and more showers.

03:09And that's how we go into the weekend as well with the potential for more weather fronts,

03:13but not particularly vigorous ones drifting in from the Atlantic.

03:18So it's too early to give much detail on the long bank holiday weekend,

03:22but after quite a bit of sunshine through this week,

03:25it does look as if the weekend will bring more mixed weather.

03:29There'll be a lot of cloud around at times and most places will see some rain,

03:33but it's a three-day weekend so there's bound to be some sunshine around as well.

03:38At this stage, as I said, just too early for details.

03:41Make sure you stay tuned by following the Met Office on social media.

Week ahead – Spring sunshine, will it stick around for the Bank Holiday?

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