A windy start to the working week for England and Wales with showers in the mix. There is rain and blustery conditions for other parts of the UK and this will last into the night. A brief lull on Tuesday.
For many, it has been a windy, even wet, start on Monday morning. An Atlantic low pressure which brought rain across the UK on Sunday, is easing away from eastern Scotland. There has been some fine and settled weather here closer to the centre of the low pressure. There is a lack of cloud for central eastern Scotland shown on the satellite and radar picture below, where there is sunshine. The same for parts of SE and southern England, pleasant sunny spells for Monday.
Netweather Radar Extra showing top 10 gusts in the hour, model data pressure overlay and Satellite cloud
Wrapped all around are clusters of showers and bands of heavy rain linked to the occluded fronts. This has been much-needed rain after the dry summer (and spring) but might not have been welcome during your morning commute. It felt cooler and damp too.
Netweather Radar with wind gusts over SW England on Monday morning and a rash of showers
Southern Britain won’t see as many showers on Monday, being a bit further away from the low centre, but there has been a succession of showers over exposed SW England brought in on the fresh westerly wind. It has also been windy for Wales with showers moving across southern Wales. Cardiff had some shelter in the westerly flow but even so, there has been rain for Monday morning. Then a gap for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire but there has been rain further north in Wales.
High gusts over Wales, particularly over mountains and around coasts today
The winds have been gusting over 60mph today, 66mph for Aberdaron, 61mph for Crosby this morning and 60mph for Pembrey Sands overnight. Blackpool Airport recorded 56mph at 6am with blustery start.
The stream of heavy showers brought in on a westerly flow, gust values shown here
As the occluded fronts moved from Northern Ireland to northern England, there was more wet weather with a strong wind from the Irish Sea. These clusters of showers will continue today.
There will be plenty of showers for Northern Ireland into the night, also for mainland Scotland and northern England until the low pressure manages to pull away towards Oslo.
UKV model forecast for Monday afternoon showing sunny spells and a scattering of showers for southern Britain
After the windy Monday morning for England and Wales, Tuesday won’t be as windy. East Anglia will still be blustery, as will Kent but there is a brief lull. The showers won’t have given up entirely over the northern half of the UK and it will stay blustery for northeastern Scotland.
It won’t be long until the next Atlantic low arrives, bringing more wind and rain. The frontal bands will arrive from the west during Tuesday night but the whole system will still be around on Wednesday morning. The zonal jetstream will have developed the low on its journey across the ocean and it will be centred to the NW of the UK in the middle of the week.
Around this will be strong winds and gales, mostly for Northern Ireland, around the Irish Sea and for western Scotland. This could affect some ferry services. Autumn has arrived.
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