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Welcome to my weather blog. I produce two weather forecasts per week, normally Monday and Thursday evening, and also put links to any other interesting weather information, and crazy weather videos that I discover. The forecast is based on my expectations for the Reading area, UK. If you want a forecast for your area, please e-mail me or comment below the blog post.

Monday, 5 December 2011

Updated Weather Forecast - Monday 5th December 2011

In my last forecast, I suggested something a little wintry may be on it's way.  Sadly for Reading snow lovers, the chances of snow further south of Birmingham are much reduced, almost to zero.  But cold snaps can upgrade at very short notice...

Also of note, it was the second warmest Autumn on record in England.  Though you may have guessed that already.

Tonight will remain dry, possibly down to 0'C so there could be a slight frost, certainly more likely away from the town centre.
Tuesday should start sunny, but cloud will increase with some patchy outbreaks of mostly light rain in the afternoon/evening, and increasing winds overnight.  8'C by day, 5'C by night.
Wednesday will tend to become quite sunny, still breezy and no more than 8'C by day, chilly overnight at around 1'C.
Thursday will be windy, gale-force gusts possible, and two bands of rain, one for around lunch-time or early afternoon, and one swinging down from a more northerly direction during the evening, roughly around 9pm.  Mild day day at 11'C, much cooler overnight, down to 1'C and feeling cold in the wind.
Friday will be quite cold, at around 5'C but a ridge of high pressure will build keeping it dry and sunny.  A small chance of say around 10% of a little area of sleet and snow but it looks likely to stay well to the north and east of Reading if it does actually even develop.  Cold overnight, maybe down to 0'C again.
Saturday will be much milder, around 11'C but cloudy with outbreaks of rain, still fairly mild overnight at 9'C.
Sunday will see high pressure building so more in the way of sunshine, 8'C by day and 0'C overnight.

It does look like the jet-stream will be stronger the week after so more in the way of wind and rain heading our way, and little in the way of cold.

I was expecting high pressure to build around 15th December but this could well be delayed a bit.

I will be very surprised if there is anything in the way of significant cold or snow before January and maybe not until the middle of January either.  Nothing wrong with cheaper fuel bills :-)

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