Places at Weather School (http://www.weatherschool.co.uk) are booking up fast so if you intend to come along to any of the October presentations I would suggest you book soon.
Lots of you are enjoying The Pocket Weather Forecaster too (buy from http://www.weatherweb.net/books.htm) and are sending me your cloud photographs. They are excellent, please keep them coming I have some plans in place to do some Weather Musings on them through the winter.
As for this weekend, it does not look too bad, although there may be some rain for more northern and western areas which could hamper vis. The models are changing with each run so keep a very careful eye on the forecasts and don’t be tempted to search the web until you find the forecast you like best!
All the forecasts will be updated as usual at http://www.weatherweb.net/uksail.htm
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Have a good one,
Simon
WEEKEND WEATHER FORECAST
Issued: 1200 Thursday 6th August 2009
SATURDAY:
A ridge of high pressure is going to be through most of the country on Saturday. At the same time a front is going to be moving into western Scotland and Ireland, tracking slowly eastwards.
A fine day to come over most of England, Wales and eastern Scotland. There could be a shower over the hills of northern England, Wales and Scotland, but for most the day is going to be staying largely fair with broken cloud and sunny spells.
Thicker cloud and some outbreaks of rain will be moving into western Scotland and Ireland during the day, and this cloud and rain will be slipping slowly eastwards, becoming more persistent over parts of Ireland and the western Isles towards evening.
Winds will be mainly W-WNW 4-8kt (F2-F3) ahead of the ridge, then backing SW 5-10kt (F3) as it passes east, becoming S 12-15kt (F4) in Ireland and western Scotland later.
SUNDAY:
Pressure remains fairly high over much of the country today, but there are fronts trapped in the west to southwest flow, introducing more moist air.
I think this leads to a fairly cloudy start to the day over much of southwest England, western Wales, northwest England and Scotland with some showery outbreaks of light rain. More eastern areas should be drier and brighter with some sunny spells to start the morning.
Into the afternoon the area of cloud and showery rain extends through Scotland, northern England, the Midlands, Wales and into southwest England. I stress that this is going to be rather a broken area of cloud and it really is critically dependant on wind direction as to how many showers/how much rain you get. It could be fairly misty through the Bristol Channel and long south coasts of Wales and southwest England.
Staying dry and bright for East Anglia and the far southeast of England with good spells of sunshine here. Probably turning much brighter and staying dry over western coasts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland too.
Winds will be NE 3-5kt (F1-F2) over the far southeast, mainly a SW 4-8kt (F2-F3) for much of England and Wales, then SW 8-10kt (F3 occ F4) over Scotland and SW 6-8kt (F3) for Ireland.
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