not wanting that either! Met office are playing down the heat next week at this stage, so caution advised.
BBC for the week ahead last night was hedging its bets ... ' an alternative computer model shows a deeper Atlantic low and freser weather' or words to that effect. On this morning's charts:
Jetstream dips low over the Atlantic and come back over the UK strong;y from the SW for most of next week before suddenly turning into a NWly Mon 29th (it's a case of the loop moving through and instead of SW-lies on the leading edge we get NW-lies in the back edge). For the following week it breaks up and does very little.
GFS - LP spins up on the Atlantic 985mb Sun 21st and then stands back enough to draw up air from tropics by Wed 24th (though NW Scotland may not see this) A short break as a more westerly flow pushes in on Mon 29th, then the pattern of Atlantic low drawing up warm ir from the S/SW repeats on Wed 1st and Sun 5th with slack circulation between. The Sun 5th chart (a long way off!) hints at some thundery stuff from Europe mixing in.
GEFS - very warm and dry for the S Tue 23rd - Mon 29th after which a lot of scatter but probably cooler though still above average, and small amounts of rain. Te further N you go, the sooner the rainy period starts (in Scotland never really dry) and the warm period less marked. though still pleasant enough.
ECM - has intial warmth as GFS and then a weak trough over the UK Thu 25th before bringing in a more W-ly though still warm flow,
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