Following the wet day across Northern Ireland, Scotland and Northern England, the rain and cloud sinks south tonight and this gives way for high pressure to build in fropm the Atlantic. Today should be glorious with plenty of sunshine from Northern Scotland where some showers will be had but sunshine should be plentiful all the way down towards Manchester. South of here it will be cloudier with showers, some of which could be heavy down towards Birmingham and later in the day, London. Eventually the boundary sinks down into the channel allowing for a clear, calm and cold night. I recon many areas away from the coast and the warmth of towns and cities could see lows dip towards freezing with frost forming.

Saturday should be a fine, dry and sunny day for pretty much all of the UK. Saturday night looks similar to tonight but a breeze could begin to pick up on the South Coast.

Then by Sunday it all goes down hill with the deep low sweeping up from the south. Current charts show the centre of the low pushing into Cornwall with pressure down to 988. (See yesterday’s post for details). What’s interesting though is that by Monday the low is expected to have a central pressure of 980 over Blackpool on Monday, suggesting W gales in the South and E gales in the North with strong winds for many as well as heavy rain so it’s not just a southern Britain event but looks to have big impact for all.

Wierd & Wacky Pattern

By Tuesday the centre of circulation moves across the Irish Sea and then works south over Ireland and by Wednesday heads back down towards where it came from. In the meantime, Nadine, having struck Portugal heads north up over Spain and France and clips Southeast England as a 988 mb storm next Thursday.

Check this out.

This far out is fantasy land obviously but interesting to keep watching.

To sum things up. Make the most of the next 36 hours because we have some wild weather coming next week. A lot of rain and a lot of wind.