Plenty of weather going on this week as warmer air pushes northwards but with low pressure to the west and southwest so fronts and troughs will also be making their way north bringing the risk of some heavy rain or showers at times with a risk of thunder too.

We start the working week off with a fair amount of cloud around and some scattered showers pushing northwards across the country. Not everyone is seeing the showers, but where they are moving through, they are bringing some locally heavy downpours, lightning and even some hail. This process continues today but by this afternoon there will be more in the way of bright or sunny spells developing across many parts of England, Wales and Ireland although these will just serve to bring the risk of further thundery downpours breaking out late on. It will remain cloudier further north and here temperatures will be in the range of 12°C to 16°C, but in the sunnier spells towards the south highs will comfortably reach 20°C to 23°C.

Showers will continue to push northwards this evening, dying out as we go into the overnight period with many regions becoming dry with some clear spells forming. However, increasing cloud and wind will bring outbreaks of rain into the far west and southwest and this sets Tuesday up to be rather wet in the west as some heavy rain pushes north but for central and eastern regions it will be brighter and warmer.

METEOROLOGIST: BARBER

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A big upgrade to all our weather model charts happened on Saturday...

Low pressure to the West of the UK and a succession of shortwave troughs running North through the course of the week, wonder what that means?