Met Office 14 Day Weather Outlook 16/04/2024

Welcome along to your Met Office 14 day outlook, this one being recorded on Tuesday the 16th of April so takes us pretty much to the end of the month, a month that so far has been very wet but that is about to change. The jet stream is arching over the UK and slowly ebbing away, allowing this an area of high pressure to move in for the weekend. So the weekend should see the weather calming down. It’s going to turn an awful lot drier through Saturday and Sunday and probably lasting into the early part of next week. The projections for Sunday into Tuesday, That high pressure will be sitting close to maybe just to the West of the UK. High pressure means the air is sinking, high pressure means dry and fine weather for the vast majority. Now if the high starts to slip away a little further W it doesn’t mean the breeze will start to come into parts of the east. So there is a chance of seeing some shower, as in eastern areas and across parts of northern Scotland particularly so on Sunday. But generally speaking the early part of next week promises a lot of dry weather and for many there should be some sunny spells. The winds will be a lot lighter as well. Now still going to be relatively cool air across the UK, but at this time of year there’s a bit of power in the sun so temperatures will respond where we do see some sunshine. As I mentioned it’s eastern areas favoured for a few showers, whilst many places will stay dry. We are likely to see a continuation of that trend though beyond Tuesday of next week. So from Wednesday the 24th right the way up until the end of the month, pretty much Monday the 29th. This is the most likely scenario, the chance of this starting around 35% dropping off a little bit as we get towards the end of the month, but this is the most likely set up with high pressure just moving back again further W which does allow low pressure to get a little closer. But more importantly what it does is allow the winds to come down more strongly from the north or the northeast, which is never a particularly warm direction. So it is generally likely to stay on the cool side, but with high pressure nearby, it’s also going to be a lot drier than it has. That’s not hard. It has been a very wet April so far, but this is showing the rainfall anomaly. So the difference from average over the whole week. So from Monday the 22nd to Monday the 29th, the brownie orange colors concentrated across the West, suggesting drier than average here, the whites there on the east suggesting that the rainfall here will be close to average and that’s where we’re most likely to see the showers and with the winds, as I say coming down from the north or northeast, it is likely to be cooler than average. And that is what this chart is showing again recorded for forecast projection for the whole week. parts of Scotland there in white may be close to average with light winds and a bit of sunshine, but generally speaking as we go through next week it is going to be drier than it has been. There will be some showers around, particularly in parts of the east, and temperatures generally around about or perhaps a little bit below average. But crucially, that will really depend on how much sunshine we see in the exact direction of the wind. As always for those day-to-day details, please do stay up to date with everything from the Met Office. Best way to do that is to subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us across social media.