Brace hard for tropical weather of the wrong kind
IT MAY not have been feeling particularly tropical so far this September, but the week ahead is going to see us experience some of the fallout from storms Dorian and Gabrielle, the former having caused such chaos on the other side of the Atlantic. What reaches our shores will be mild, in comparison, but any lingering sense of an Indian summer is set to be washed and blown away.
For today, though, after a cold start, it will warm up nicely, with plenty of sunshine in most parts and those chilly northerly winds becoming much more benign. There will be some cloudy spells, especially in the north west of the country, but overall it should be a thoroughly decent early autumn day with 19C (66F) down in Devon and Cornwall, 18C (64F) for Cardiff and South Wales, and 16C (61F) in most other places.
A rain front will, however, start moving in from the west as evening comes. Overnight it will gather sufficient strength and reach to make it a miserable back-to-work Monday. Expect showers wherever you are, and heavier downpours if you are unlucky.
After a brief interlude on Tuesday, when high pressure will push in from the south west and warm us up again, the remnants of those two destructive tropical storms will combine their efforts in the mid-Atlantic and start approaching the UK from the west as part of a deep trough of low pressure which will inflict wet and windy conditions on the northern part of the UK in particular.
Dorian and Gabrielle will be a shadow of their former selves, but when drenching rain combines with 50mph winds they still have the power to disrupt.