The Hunt For High PressureAdded : Saturday at 14:15 It feels like it has been a long time since the UK and Ireland experienced a prolonged spell of settled weather with high pressure in charge and in fact we have to look back to the early part of summer when more settled conditions prevailed, but even then parts of the north and west didn't join in.
At this time of year the Atlantic tends to edge up through the gears with increasingly active frontal systems bringing bouts of wet and windy weather with them and so high pressure often struggles to take control as it's pushed south. This looks to be the case during the next few days as low pressure systems push in off the Atlantic bringing rain bands and brisk winds with them to Britain and Ireland, the north and west seeing the wettest and windiest of the conditions:
A look at the synoptic chart above would suggest little change as we go through towards next weekend with high pressure over mainland Europe and large, deep areas of low pressure dominating the North Atlantic region.
In fact as the jet stream to the west begins to dig south and high pressure remains steadfast over Europe then winds back more southerly and bring warmer air back northwards by next weekend:
Unfortunately this means the north and west is likely to remain wet and windy at times with south-eastern parts of the UK seeing the drier, brighter and warmer conditions:
Temperatures potentially rising into the low twenties across parts of England:
So high pressure not really taking control of our weather with the north and west in particular seeing a continuation of the unsettled conditions, but there are good signs of drier and warmer conditions arriving later next week for the south and east thanks to the high building over mainland Europe.
METEOROLOGIST: BARBER |