Surface pressure forecast

These charts of surface pressure, from analysis (T+0) to the 84-hour forecast (T+84) are produced daily around 0730 UTC.

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T+0

T+12

T+24

T+36

T+48

T+60

T+72

T+84

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Met Office view of 0000 UTC surface analysis

A large Atlantic anticyclone is blocking areas of low pressure, from moving in their usual west to east manner across the UK. Instead frontal systems are forced to move around the top of the high pressure, stretching all the way from the mid Atlantic towards Iceland and then down across Scandinavia.

Updated: 0730 on Sat 13 Mar 2010