This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 15/04/2024.
This week will be a mix of showers and some sunny spells with temperatures around average by day, however the mornings will be cold with frosts possible in rural parts. By the weekend high pressure will be bringing dry weather across the country.
Bringing you this forecast for the week ahead is Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin.
This week will be a mix of showers and some sunny spells with temperatures around average by day, however the mornings will be cold with frosts possible in rural parts. By the weekend high pressure will be bringing dry weather across the country.
Bringing you this forecast for the week ahead is Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin.
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00:00 Welcome to your weather for the week ahead from the Met Office.
00:03 It's been a lively start to the weather
00:06 through this working week.
00:07 We are going to see things calming down and turning
00:10 a lot drier as we head towards next weekend.
00:12 That's because this area of high pressure is moving in,
00:15 but it's going to take a while.
00:17 Low pressure dominating through Monday.
00:19 The ice bars close to each other.
00:21 It's been a gusty, blustery day with plenty of showers.
00:24 And these are the winds high up in the atmosphere.
00:26 That's the position of the jet stream.
00:28 But what we'll see this week, slowly the jet stream
00:32 will start to drift a little further north.
00:34 We'll still have low pressure systems
00:36 bringing some showery rain.
00:37 But this area of high pressure just
00:39 creeps and creeps and creeps.
00:41 And by the weekend is sitting right over us.
00:44 High pressure means dry and fine weather.
00:47 So that is coming for the weekend.
00:50 But this is the week ahead forecast.
00:52 So let's rewind the clock and go through the week day by day.
00:55 We start with low pressure clearing away,
00:58 but bringing down the winds from the north.
01:00 That's why it's turned chillier and will bring a fresh feel,
01:03 certainly, to Tuesday morning.
01:04 Quite a few showers across parts of eastern England.
01:07 There'll be a few for Wales and plenty for northern Scotland.
01:10 But I suspect much of southern Scotland
01:12 through the central belt, a good part of northwest England,
01:15 north Wales will have a dry and a fine day.
01:17 And in the south, yes, there will
01:19 be a sprinkling of showers, but not as many as Monday.
01:22 And a bit more sunshine.
01:24 The winds will ease down a bit as well.
01:26 So generally feeling a little warmer on Tuesday
01:29 when you compare that to Monday's temperatures.
01:32 It is going to turn quite cold, though, on Tuesday night.
01:35 The high pressure hasn't really shifted.
01:36 It's still sitting out west.
01:38 And we've got these couple of weather systems
01:40 just drifting down from the north.
01:42 They will bring a bit more cloud and some rain,
01:44 but they'll also bring the colder air still in place
01:47 on Wednesday morning.
01:48 So if you take a look at the temperatures for Wednesday
01:51 morning when compared to average,
01:52 you can see quite a lot of blue on the chart.
01:54 Temperatures generally around about three degrees
01:56 below average.
01:57 And in this little pocket over parts of northern England,
01:59 southern Scotland, lower than that.
02:01 So that's where we're most likely to have a touch of frost
02:03 on Wednesday morning.
02:05 Quite a few will start off with some sunshine on Wednesday,
02:07 but there'll be cloud and rain coming into northern Ireland.
02:09 That'll spread into parts of north and west Wales.
02:12 And then we'll see plenty of showers
02:14 developing across the east.
02:16 Colder air again, so temperatures
02:18 struggling a little bit below average
02:19 for most single digits in northern Scotland,
02:22 only 12 or 13 further south.
02:24 A bit more cloud on Wednesday compared to Tuesday.
02:28 As we head to the middle of the week,
02:29 the high pressure is, well, trying to creep in,
02:31 but it's getting pushed away again by more weather fronts
02:34 coming in from the north.
02:35 The ice bars are opening up, which
02:36 means the winds will be light, which means at night,
02:40 it's going to turn even colder.
02:42 And these are the temperatures for Thursday morning
02:45 when compared to average.
02:46 And more of the country is in that darker shade of blue.
02:49 So temperatures even lower to start Thursday
02:53 and a greater chance, certainly in rural areas,
02:55 of seeing a frost through parts of Wales, northern England,
02:58 and southern Scotland.
02:59 So a chilly old start to Thursday.
03:02 Good part of England and Wales having a dry, bright day.
03:04 There will be quite a bit of cloud
03:06 at times over East Anglia and certainly a lot of cloud
03:08 as that weather system moves in for Scotland and northern
03:11 Ireland.
03:11 So a dull and damp day here, actually.
03:13 Outbreaks of rain on and off.
03:14 Temperatures only 10 or 11.
03:16 But in the south, we might just squeak up to 14, 15 Celsius
03:20 with the help of a little bit of sunshine.
03:22 Now, as we head into Friday, we've
03:25 got a bit of uncertainty about this weather front
03:27 and the exact timing of it.
03:29 It may well provide cloud and outbreaks
03:31 of rain across parts of the south during Friday morning.
03:35 So just a bit of a question mark about how quickly
03:37 that clears away.
03:38 It should scoot away eventually.
03:40 And that'll, again, leave us with a mixture of bright spells
03:43 and showers, with most of the showers
03:45 coming in across northern Scotland
03:47 and scattering elsewhere.
03:48 These are Friday's temperatures.
03:50 So again, on the chilly side, northern Scotland's
03:52 single digits elsewhere, close to average.
03:56 If that front clears, we get a bit of sunshine in the south,
03:58 we might get up to 15 or 16 at best.
04:01 But the wind's still coming in from the north.
04:03 So again, that is going to temper
04:04 those temperatures somewhat.
04:06 It's as we head through Friday and into the weekend
04:09 that finally that area of high pressure
04:11 we've been talking about, it's finally edges its way in.
04:14 High pressure means fine weather.
04:16 And that's what most of us, I think,
04:18 can expect as we head towards the weekend.
04:20 A lot of dry weather around.
04:22 The winds will be a lot lighter.
04:23 I can't promise sunshine at this stage,
04:25 but there's a bit of power in the sun now.
04:27 So where we do see sunny spells this weekend,
04:30 it will be feeling on the warm side.
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