(Updated by 1st of each month)

Issued: Sunday 1st August 2010
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling & Captain Bob

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet." -
William Shakespeare
The pattern looks as though it’ll continue to be dominated by high pressure which will maintain essential a dry and settled theme, there could be a spell of rather warm to locally hot weather the middle to latter stages of the period.
Showers rather than persistent rainfall is likely, the southern half of the UK seeing mainly dry weather for much of the time, much of any rainfall concentrated over the west and north-west of the UK.
Later in the period are the first signs that the flow may revert to a mainly westerly, with the hint of some much need rainfall for southern Britain.

*07/08/10 – 13/08/10*
High pressure looks as though it’ll be maintained to across the UK, initially to the west with perhaps a slight north to north-westerly drift, so essentially dry for most areas save for a scattering of light showers or patchy rain across the north.
Through the middle period some indications of pressure rising generally with a weak anticyclone settling over perhaps the north of Britain, therefore there’s little sign of much on the way of widespread rainfall. However there is the hint of showers breaking out across the southeast where lower pressure may edge up from the near continent, some of it perhaps thundery. It’ll remain on the warm side generally and quite humid.

*14/08/10 -20/08/108
High pressure looks as though it’ll slip slowly southwards which will allow a cloudier south-westerly flow to establish over the western and northern half of the UK with some patchy rain, England and Wales remaining essentially dry.
Through the middle and latter stages of the period there is little sign of the pattern altering, with the southern half of the UK seeing a ridge of high pressure straddled across it, a more westerly to south-westerly flow continuing to affect the north, therefore a continued north to south split is expected.

*21/08/10 – 27/08/10*
High pressure looks as though it’ll be building through this period, so any showery outbreaks of rain across the north should become well scattered and lighter as an anticyclone establishes.
Through the middle of the period high pressure settles over the UK with all areas seeing rather warm and sunny conditions establishing, locally hot inland although coastal areas will be cooler and cloudier with onshore breezes.

*28/08/10 – 03/09/10*
High pressure continues to hold across the bulk of the UK throughout the beginning and middle of the period with all areas seeing some pleasantly warm and sunny conditions. Coastal areas still plagued at times with cloud and cooler onshore breezes, perhaps and increased threat of thundery showers inland later.
Through the latter stages of the period high pressure looks as though it’ll begin to slip southward allowing a fresher westerly flow to establish across all areas, patchy rain crossing northern Britain.

*04/09/10 – 08/09/10*
The new month looks as though it’ll begin with a flow from the west covering the whole of the UK, low pressure crossing close to the north of Scotland, so it’ll be across the northern half of the country which will see rather mixed conditions. Showers or longer spells of rain at times for Scotland and Northern Ireland with brighter spells between as transient high pressure pass between the rain bands.