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This week brings more showers initially. Later on in the week warmer air could be drawn up from the south allowing temperatures to rise, but there is much uncertainty about how long any warm spell will last.

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00:00Welcome to a look at the weather for

00:01the week ahead from the Met Office.

00:03Something of a north-south split

00:05with the weather this week.

00:06And yes, there are signs of

00:08something resembling summer

00:10returning to the south as

00:11temperatures start to rise,

00:12particularly later in the week.

00:14Whereas further north, it's often

00:16going to be quite breezy this week

00:18with further showers to come.

00:20This kind of tells the story.

00:21The pressure pattern for the next

00:22five days, high pressure,

00:24the dominant feature across the

00:25south, low pressure,

00:27the dominant feature across the

00:29north with weather fronts swinging

00:30by, bringing bands of showers and

00:32the ice bars often squeezing

00:34together as well, telling us

00:35it's often going to be quite

00:37gusty.

00:37So, yes, it is a bit of a

00:39north-south split.

00:40But in the south, we could see some

00:41warmer weather.

00:42Question marks come the weekend

00:44about when this weather front

00:45swings through and whether it

00:47gets rid of any warmer weather

00:48across the south.

00:49But that's all to come.

00:51Let's rewind and go back

00:53and break down the days day by

00:54day. Looking at Tuesday, first

00:56of all, we've got a couple of

00:57weather fronts bringing thicker

00:59cloud initially over southwest

01:00Scotland, northwest England with

01:02some showers.

01:03They'll move into northeast

01:04England and across central and

01:05southern Scotland.

01:06Next, weather fronts introducing

01:08more cloud to Wales and southwest

01:09England after a bright start and

01:11also clouding over in Northern

01:12Ireland with some showers here.

01:14In between, though, we should see

01:15some sunshine on Tuesday and the

01:17winds will be a bit lighter than

01:18Monday's values.

01:19So in that sunshine, feeling

01:21pleasant enough, temperatures

01:22again in the high teens or maybe

01:24low 20s.

01:26Now, as you move through Tuesday

01:27night and into Wednesday, high

01:29pressure continues to dominate

01:30across the south.

01:31But we are focusing in again on

01:33low pressure further north and

01:34this weather front in particular.

01:35That's going to bring a band of

01:37wet weather into the northwest

01:39as the day goes on and the ice

01:40above squeezing together.

01:41So the winds will be picking up

01:43as well.

01:44Initially, though, it's a case of

01:46dodging the showers over Wales,

01:48northern England and Scotland.

01:49Some of them could be heavy and

01:50then they're kind of joined by

01:52this band of wet and windy weather

01:53swinging in.

01:54Notice, though, across the south,

01:56not too many showers here and

01:58with a bit of brightness,

01:59temperatures could again get into

02:00the low 20s, whereas it will be

02:01feeling quite a bit cooler as

02:03that wet and windy weather sweeps

02:05into the northwest.

02:07This weather front then continues

02:08to head its way across the

02:09country, but it will be fizzling

02:11out as it bumps up against that

02:12area of high pressure by the time

02:14we get to Thursday.

02:16There are more weather fronts

02:17waiting to push in and notice the

02:19ice bars still fairly close

02:20together. So it's going to be

02:21blustery in the northwest on

02:23Thursday with further showers

02:25perhaps turning into more

02:26persistent rain as those weather

02:28fronts head in.

02:29For England, Wales and parts of

02:31southern Scotland, it's a case

02:33again of dodging a few showers,

02:35but much of the day will be dry

02:37and there'll be a fair bit of cloud

02:38around, but we should see some

02:39sunshine across the east and the

02:40south at times, lifting the

02:42temperatures again into the low

02:4420s. So again, quite a contrast

02:45between northwest and southeast,

02:47which will persist on Friday.

02:48Chance of a bit of mist and low

02:49cloud along the south coast

02:51through Thursday and Friday.

02:53One or two showers dotted around,

02:55but the more persistent rain

02:57is gathering once

02:59more in the northwest.

02:59That's that cold front we saw

03:01earlier on, and it does bring

03:03some question marks as we go into

03:04the weekend. High pressure is still

03:06the dominant feature.

03:07And as it shifts into Europe,

03:09well, it actually lifts

03:11southerly winds across the UK.

03:13So we will start to see the

03:15temperatures rising mid 20s

03:17by Friday, possibly a bit

03:19higher in some spots on Saturday,

03:21but there is uncertainty about the

03:22timing of that weather front.

03:24At the moment, the weekend bank

03:26holiday for many could

03:28be starting warm, but there'll

03:30be wet weather from that weather

03:31front probably pushing into the

03:33northwest and uncertainty about

03:34whether that weather front sweeps

03:35through and takes the warm weather

03:37away with it.

03:38So there's quite a bit of uncertainty

03:39after Saturday.

03:40Nothing unusual about having

03:42uncertainty this far ahead.

03:44The message at the moment, if you've

03:46got plans for the weekend, is to

03:47stay tuned to the updates.

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