UK weather: High pressure keeps the rain away and brings a colder week, with 8°C in Inverness by Wednesday

A High pressure will keep the UK dry this week, but it will also let the cold in. Sunday will bring fog to England and Wales, and temperatures will slide through the week, with Inverness down to 8°C by Wednesday. When will the rain return, and will it be enough?

As we have teased in previous reports, the UK is now enjoying settled conditions courtesy of high pressure over it, limiting the rain but not the cold. A

s the video shows, the high’s position marks the entrance of cold air directly into Scotland on Saturday, covering the whole territory on Sunday, with even colder air dominating on Monday. T

he ghost of the fog haunts the mornings S

unday will start with the high from previous reports sitting west of Ireland, and under light winds and clear skies overnight, rapid radiational cooling will cause surface heat to escape into space (map below). Lo

ndon Fog is back, and this time it is not the coat.As

relative humidity is already high and the temperature keeps dropping, the air’s capacity to hold moisture falls, and the excess condenses into fog, bringing poor visibility through the morning across England and Wales.A

few weak rain bands will …….