More sunshine and dry weather this week. The cool easterly breeze will shift. Fine weather if you are already on your Easter break, it doesn't look like lasting for next week though.
If you are on school holidays already, this sunshine will be most welcome. If you have to wait until next week, it looks like there will be a shift in the weather in the UK. If you are travelling in the UK this week, it can be quite tricky to gauge how it will feel. The weekend sunshine lifted temperatures in Dorset near to 21C on Saturday and 19C on Sunday. It was fine and warm for southwest England. It was a different picture for North Sea coasts with a brisk chilly wind off the sea and pockets of cloud. The east coast of Yorkshire and northeast England only reached 7 to 9C in some spots. There have been touches of frost and the nights have been cold, something to bear in mind if you're thinking of an early season camping trip or sending children off to camp. Woolly hats, sunscreen, thermals and even sunglasses. It’s the ‘pack everything’ time of year. Although here in the UK we often have to do that. We haven’t needed a raincoat or umbrella recently. That’s the bit that will change for northwest Scotland at the weekend and more of the UK early next week.
For now, it stays dry and sunny. The high pressure, which has kept our UK weather steady and dry, has edged over the North Sea for Monday and the winds have eased. So the blue skies and sunshine will be more enjoyable for eastern Britain once any early low cloud disappears from the Humber and East Anglian coasts. There will still be a slight flow off the cold North Sea, enough to subdue the temperatures for eastern Britain.
Northern Ireland could see 17C this afternoon and similar again inland SW England. For most, it will look lovely and be a super spring day, but just not that warm. This air is not coming up from Spain or France. Its origins are from northern Europe, around the High.
Although this week’s weather continues to be settled and fair, there will be some changes. During Tuesday night, a sheet of low cloud will creep down from the north, reaching over North Sea coasts.
Wednesday will start off grey with the Haar or Sea Fret over eastern Britain and a cool damp feeling in the air. Elsewhere, it will be fine and sunny after another cool night. Temperatures in the west will reach 17C and it will feel pleasantly warm in the sunshine with hardly any breeze.
Thursday
The ridge of high pressure will drift southwards as a low pressure and fronts finally begin to reach the UK. The northwest Highlands and Islands could see rain by Thursday evening, but southeastern Scotland and northern England will lose the easterly flow that has been around for over a week. Finally, temperatures will respond in these areas. Northern Ireland will continue with its fine, warm and sunny week. Temperatures here could be 16 to maybe 20C.
Friday looks warm for southern Britain with temperatures widely in the high teens and just into the low twenties Celsius. The westerly breeze will reach over more of Scotland, bringing cloud and patchy rain from the Atlantic, but don’t write off the day as brighter gaps will appear. Saturday also looks warm and fine, just frontal rain and cloud lurking away in the far northwest.
Glasgow 17C on Tuesday and Thursday, only 13C on Friday
Belfast 13C for Tuesday, 20C by Thursday
York 13C Tuesday and Wednesday, then 20C on Thursday
Cardiff 17C Wednesday and 19C on Friday
London A fine, dry working week with 21C by Friday
The outlook for early next week is for an Atlantic low pressure to bring cloud and bands of rain with blustery winds from the west or southwest. Sometimes this transition away from steady anticyclonic weather can be slow, taking a bit longer to shift.
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