Why has it been so gloomy lately?

Is the upwind getting you down? You are not alone. Mist, fog, debased unreality and a chiseled deficiency of sunshine seems to beryllium the norm truthful acold this month.

It is mild for the clip of twelvemonth but it has typically been dull, grey and misty. While determination was immoderate rainfall successful Scotland past weekend, for overmuch of England and Wales, isolated from drizzle and wide dampness, the past clip we saw immoderate appreciable rainfall was connected Monday 28 October.

The past time with wide sunshine was the time earlier that, though a fewer upwind stations recorded respective hours of sunshine astir Halloween.

High pressure, oregon an anticyclone, is presently influencing our weather.

Such areas of precocious unit artifact rain-bearing fronts and often mean extended adust periods. In the summertime this often leads to warm, adust and sunny days with airy winds. In autumn and winter, portion sunny, clearer days are possible, precocious unit tin besides effect successful "anticyclonic gloom".

This is erstwhile precocious unit traps an country of moisture adjacent to the aboveground of the Earth. The moisture forms debased cloud, mist and fog, which past cannot assistance and wide arsenic the winds are truthful airy and the sunshine astatine this clip of twelvemonth is truthful weak.

As the precocious persists, the debased unreality continues to provender itself by re-thickening overnight arsenic temperatures driblet and moisture condenses. The prime of the aerial tin besides deteriorate arsenic pollutants build, particularly successful cities.

Some parts of the state recorded nary sunshine astatine each during the archetypal week of November.

There is 1 portion of the state that has fared overmuch amended than most, though. Eastern Scotland, sheltered by the Scottish mountains, has seen the unreality interruption up astatine times. On 3 November it was sunny each time successful Leuchars, which is wherefore this determination is astatine the apical of the sunshine illustration below.

The jet stream, which is liable for driving debased unit systems and upwind fronts towards america from the Atlantic, is presently strengthening but remaining to the northbound of the UK.

Over the play a upwind beforehand encroaching from the Atlantic volition bring immoderate rainfall to bluish and occidental areas of the UK. The beforehand volition weaken arsenic unit rises again connected Sunday and the rainfall volition dice out.

Even though we commencement adjacent with precocious unit implicit the UK, this 1 looks similar it volition person little moisture and truthful little unreality and much sunshine.

This country of precocious unit is not expected to beryllium arsenic ascendant adjacent week.

There could beryllium immoderate rainfall connected Tuesday spreading successful from the North Sea to chiefly impact eastbound areas. This rainfall volition not past agelong but the precocious unit could get pushed distant with much unit astatine the extremity of the week.

Some models are indicating a overmuch colder north-westerly upwind volition bring a large alteration successful the upwind signifier astatine the commencement of adjacent weekend.

That alteration is inactive a agelong mode disconnected but you tin support up to day with the upwind wherever you are connected the BBC Weather website oregon app.