Miguel moves out but summer sun is still lying low
The weather may have smiled on the D-Day anniversary events but since then, Storm Miguel – named by the Spanish Met Office but travelling north over France and now the UK – has brought misery with heavy rain and strong winds.
This deep, low-pressure system should move off towards Scandinavia today, but next week will still have a slow and unseasonal start.
After yesterday saw gusts of up to 50mph, conditions will turn more benign across the southern half of the country. There may be occasional showers, but nothing like the sustained downpours of the past few days. The sun will be putting in an appearance, but will come and go like a weak mobile phone signal. Plan for 68F (20C) in London and the South East, 66F (19C) in sheltered East Anglia, and 63F (17C) anywhere from Cardiff up to Manchester.
Further north, the last gasps of Storm Miguel will still be causing trouble, with more rain and grey skies, though the wind speeds will have slowed. From Belfast across to Aberdeen expect 57F (14C), a touch warmer in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
There is, then, a vacancy in the week ahead for a return to early summer, but for Monday and Tuesday at least it will go unfilled. Lowpressure systems coming in from the west will bring more rain – especially to Wales and the South West on Monday – while the prevailing wind direction, for the North and North West, will introduce a chill to the air.
After that, everything is up in the air – quite literally, with the jet stream, the air current in the high atmosphere that shapes our weather, ducking and diving rather than blowing west to east in its usual orderly fashion.
There is a chance of another deep low over France developing and then heading our way. Or, alternatively, milder, more settled high pressure out west may prevail and calm us all down.