Week Ahead 02/12/2024 – Often wet and windy – Met Office weather forecast UK

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This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 02/12/2024. The jet stream is amping up out in the Atlantic and that means a week mixing between spells of wet and windy weather with some drier and brighter days. Bringing you this week’s weather forecast is Alex Deakin

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00:00Hello, it's the first full week of meteorological winter and the weather is going to be suitably

00:06mixed switching from cold and frosty to wet and windy.

00:10The bigger picture shows high pressure near to the UK at least to start with.

00:15But out in the Atlantic things are brewing up a strengthening jet stream that fast moving

00:21ribbon of air high up in the atmosphere and that is going to power towards the UK spinning

00:26up areas of low pressure as it does so and they will whiz across the country bringing

00:31short sharp spells of wet and windy weather one Tuesday one Thursday and then this one

00:36developing could bring us some very lively weather into the weekend.

00:41More on that in just a second first let's rewind the clock and go through the week day

00:45by day starting with Tuesday when the skinny area of high pressure is still holding on

00:51bringing many a cold and frosty start certainly of course northern Britain temperatures could

00:55be a negative double figures across parts of Scotland by and large a fine day across

00:59many eastern areas steadily clouding over further west a few showers in the far southwest

01:04late on but for many it will be a dry day until we see this band of rain coming into

01:09Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland not just rain here however as it bumps into the

01:14cold air we could certainly see some snow coming in mostly over the hills.

01:18The cold air will still be in place and temperatures will be struggling across Scotland to get

01:23much above three or four degrees Celsius and elsewhere as well we're looking at single

01:27figures for most maybe double digits in the southwest late on but with the cold air and

01:31this wet weather bumping into it we could see a bit more snow through Tuesday evening

01:35something to watch for sure because although the snow is mostly likely over hills even

01:40at lower levels there could be a covering for a time as that all moves through into

01:44southern Scotland and then down into northern England again some snow possible over the

01:48Pennines and as it clears away it could turn icy.

01:51So there's that weather front that is moving its way through if we pull out and look at

01:56the bigger picture you can see an area of low pressure developing that's going to come

01:59in during Wednesday but will mostly be between these weather systems on Wednesday so for

02:05many much of the day will be dry colder air returns so a frosty start potentially icy

02:10where we've had that wet and wintry weather during Tuesday but by and large a fine day

02:15hazy sunshine in the east clouding over in the west as that next weather system comes

02:19in so it's a similar day for Northern Ireland starts dry turns wet but on Wednesday I think

02:25we'll see a bit more of that rain further south so parts of west Wales southwest England

02:29also turning soggy by the end of the day. Again for many in central and eastern parts

02:33single digit temperatures but further west the rain is going to be bringing in some milder

02:38air as well as well as a strengthening wind and that's something we'll need to keep an

02:42eye on the gusty conditions as this area of low pressure and this weather front swings

02:46through the isobars pinching together so a blustery night Wednesday night and into

02:50Thursday and a wet one for many as that cold front clears through. Then there's another

02:56weather system following hot on the heels again the isobars pinching together there

03:00suggesting some strong winds so wet and windy first thing on Wednesday of course East Anglia

03:04in the southeast that scoots through and then this next weather system comes in pretty rapidly

03:09and that'll throw a lot of showers in across the country bringing milder air so temperatures

03:14particularly where it brightens up between the showers getting up into the teens perhaps

03:18but feeling cooler with the winds which could get very lively around some western coasts

03:22around the center of the low you can see it there swirling so very blustery conditions

03:26gusty with a mixture of sunshine and showers but it will be that much milder. Then for

03:32Friday we're kind of between two weather systems watching this one developing out in the Atlantic

03:37but a little ridge ahead of that promises many a fine day that weather system won't

03:41have completely pulled away Friday morning still generating some showers down the eastern

03:47sides a chilly starts but again for a good part of the country most of the day dry and

03:52fine with weak winter sunshine temperatures mostly getting into double figures for England

03:58Wales and Northern Ireland still single digits across parts of Scotland but that next weather

04:02system perhaps already into parts of the West by the end of Friday we do need to watch this

04:07because it's developing as we go through Friday night into quite a deep area of low

04:13pressure now this is still five days away it could be further north it could be further

04:16south it could be less intense it could be more intense but certainly strong signals

04:20of a wet and windy spell across the country on Saturday something we'll be keeping a very

04:25close eye on and you should keep up to date with the forecast over the next few days particularly

04:30if you do have plans on Saturday as this area of low pressure starts to move towards us.

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Week Ahead 02/12/2024 – Often wet and windy – Met Office weather forecast UK

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