Sit tight, there may be balm after the storms
Two named storms in as many days made last week a tempestuous one, with first Storm Ali bringing winds of 100mph and causing two deaths on the island of Ireland, and then Storm Bronagh resulting in parts of the country getting a month’s worth of rainfall in just 24 hours. So is it going to calm down with sunshine after the rain? In the short term the answer is no but hold your nerve – the coming week looks autumnally warm.
After the relative calm of yesterday in many parts of the British Isles, the next band of wind and rain is heading in from the Atlantic.
In the west and south west you may have seen the first signs of what was brewing as dusk fell last night, but today it could boil over. England and Wales were in the path of this storm, so put the garden furniture away and stay in, if you can, until it has passed. Scotland and Northern Ireland were looking as if they could avoid the worst of it, though the various models used to predict the weather are finding it harder than EU leaders to reach a consensus.
For London and Norwich, expect 64F (18C), Cardiff and Birmingham 61F (16C) and Belfast and Glasgow 54F (12C). By Monday morning, the worse will have passed over and out the other side towards Scandinavia.
The day should start with a chilly breeze from the north, but once the sun gets going, things will warm up nicely as a high pressure system takes up residence over the UK.
It will hang around for much of the week, bringing settled, mild conditions. As we get deeper into autumn, the power of the sun will diminish, so early and late expect it to be colder, with some of those seasonal mists and fog hanging around when you get up, and there may even be a touch of frost on the grass.